Philip Ewing
Philip Ewing is an election security editor with NPR's Washington Desk. He helps oversee coverage of election security, voting, disinformation, active measures and other issues. Ewing joined the Washington Desk from his previous role as NPR's national security editor, in which he helped direct coverage of the military, intelligence community, counterterrorism, veterans and more. He came to NPR in 2015 from Politico, where he was a Pentagon correspondent and defense editor. Previously, he served as managing editor of Military.com, and before that he covered the U.S. Navy for the Military Times newspapers.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking member is trying to pin down Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on policy and legal questions — and she is trying to avoid committing to nearly anything.
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GOP members on the Senate Judiciary Committee decry what they call inappropriate questioning about Amy Coney Barrett's Catholic faith and call it un-American persecution of her religion.
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Biden said he feels assured the courts, the Congress and national security officials will carry out the rule of law. The comments followed another week of back-and-forth on democratic practices.
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President Trump and Republicans already have remade the federal judiciary in their own image. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg puts a rare third Supreme Court pick within their grasp.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn't unveiled a list of names about who he could nominate to the Supreme Court. That issue has taken on a new urgency.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told her granddaughter that her final wish was that her replacement not be confirmed until a new presidency. How will Washington respond?
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The debate in Thursday's House Homeland Security Committee hearing mirrored a broader national political argument over the demonstrations that followed the police killing of George Floyd this year.
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The FBI director told members of Congress the bureau wants to act quickly with Big Tech companies to root out and clear disinformation efforts so they don't take hold and develop momentum.
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Members of Congress have no one to ask in Thursday's hearing about reports of mistreatment against ICE detainees and an alleged push to alter intelligence.
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The FBI director and other national security officials are scheduled to appear on Thursday morning to talk about threats to the U.S., but the director of national intelligence isn't expected.