The senator could cast the decisive vote on the lifetime appointment. She’s reading Kavanaugh’s decisions and wants to hear from her constituents.
Federal Government
State officials weigh shift to more voting by mail
Rural Alaskans don’t want a system that entirely relies on mail.
Government unable to track hundreds of parents it separated from their children
Officials said 1,012 parents and children separated at the border have already been reunited. But up to 463 parents may have been deported or have voluntarily left without their children.
Kake tribal government seeks return of items from remote grave site
The Organized Village of Kake seeks to bring back a mummified infant and other items taken in 1961 from a cave on Entrance Island near Hobart Bay, about 70 miles south of Juneau.
Amid migrant crises, nations flout international law on refugees
The rights of refugees were enshrined in international law in the wake of World War II. But those rules aren’t always respected.
Murkowski calls on Trump to end ‘sad chapter’ of splitting families at border
Sen. Lisa Murkowski and more than two dozen other senators wrote President Trump Friday urging that he use all available resources to reunite migrant families that were detained after crossing the southern border.