
Ex-officer, Trump impeachment manager and now Senate candidate: Who is Rep. Val Demings
CNN
Rep. Val Demings' Senate run provides Democrats with a prominent, nationally recognized candidate to challenge Republican incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio, a formidable opponent, in next year's general election.
The Florida Democrat sought to highlight her resume, which includes serving as a chief prosecutor of President Donald Trump's actions in office during his first impeachment trial and experience running a large city's police force. With a pitch of expanding her "unlikely story of opportunity" to other Floridians, Demings in her campaign video spoke of her humble beginnings, to her rise to the top of the Orlando Police Department to becoming a congresswoman who "brought law and order to a lawless president."
Lawyers for Sen. Mark Kelly filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to block Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s move to cut Kelly’s retirement pay and reduce his rank in response to Kelly’s urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders. The lawsuit argues punishing Kelly violates the First Amendment and will have a chilling effect on legislative oversight.

Hundreds of Border Patrol officers are mobilizing to bolster the president’s crackdown on immigration in snowy Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.











