Kamala Harris endorses Biden, Jesse Jackson backs Sanders
March 8, 2020
Biden also has former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in his camp. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is still sitting on the fence.
Jesse Jackson Jr. gets 30 months in prison
August 14, 2013
Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to scheming to spend $750,000 in
Jesse Jackson Jr. sentencing today
August 14, 2013
Former Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandra, learn their fates Wednesday when a federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentences the one-time power
Jesse Jackson Jr., wife, agree to guilty pleas for campaign fund fraud
February 16, 2013
In a spectacular fall from political prominence, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife agreed Friday to plead guilty to federal charges growing
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. transferred to Mayo Clinic
July 29, 2012
The announcement that Jesse Jackson Jr. had been transferred to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota pinned down his whereabouts for the first time in weeks
Jesse Jackson Jr. suffering from ‘mood disorder’
July 12, 2012
Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. is receiving intensive treatment for a “mood disorder” and is expected to make a full recovery, his doctor said on Wednesday,
Sources: Substance abuse, not exhaustion, led to Jesse Jackson Jr.’s ‘leave of absence’
June 26, 2012
Sources close to supporters of Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. say the “medical leave of absence for treatment of exhaustion” announced Monday is a cover
Tea party rookie beats veteran GOP congressman
March 21, 2012
A rookie Congressman with Tea Party support beat a veteran Republican twice his age on Tuesday in a primary contest between incumbents forced by Democratic
Reading the Constitution: Education or futility?
January 6, 2011
Republicans and Democrats took turns politely in a historic recitation of the Constitution from the House floor Thursday, but the decorum hardly meant they were
Should Pastor Agnostic run for Mayor of Chicago? 1821
September 27, 2010
I wake up some mornings hating me too.
— Rahm Emanuel