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Kerry Picket is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times.
Picket covered the hill at other DC-based outlets including the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner. Before that, she produced news for Robin Quivers of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, wrote entertainment news for MTV Radio, and worked as a production assistant at MTV.com.
Picket is also a former radio guest host at SiriusXM Patriot 125 and appears frequently as a guest commentator on cable news programs and syndicated radio shows.
She can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Kerry Picket

A Delaware County secured drop box for the return of vote-by-mail ballots is pictured, May 2, 2022, in Newtown Square, Pa. An exterior envelope date requirement in Pennsylvania's mail-in voting system does not run afoul of a civil rights law, a federal appeals court panel said Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in overturning a lower-court ruling. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pennsylvania court rules in favor of RNC in mail-in ballot case

Republicans scored a legal victory this week after the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that mail-in ballots without dates or with unqualified dates cannot be counted in Pennsylvania elections.

March 27, 2024

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association's Presidential Forum in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

N.Y. Dems accused of weaponizing courts against many political foes — not just Trump

New York Republicans say Attorney General Letitia James' vendetta against former President Donald Trump is further proof that Democrats have turned the state's courts into a political retribution machine.

March 25, 2024

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Georgia, listens to a speaker at a press conference, May 4, 2021, in Marietta, Ga. Police have determined a House Republican who led a tour of the U.S. Capitol the day before the Jan. 6 attack was simply showing his constituents around and not suspicious. The tour by Loudermilk had drawn scrutiny from the congressional panel investigating the insurrection. (AP Photo/Ron Harris) **FILE**

House investigator says Jan. 6 committee engaged in political smear of Trump

Rep. Barry Loudermilk says investigators on the Jan. 6 committee created a final report as a political hit job on former President Donald Trump instead of an analysis of security failures the day the U.S. Capitol was breached by pro-Trump protesters.

March 21, 2024

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 24, 2020. Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Ken Buck voted out of House Freedom Caucus

The House Freedom Caucus has booted Rep. Ken Buck from the arch-conservative group just days before he resigns from Congress.

March 20, 2024

A lecture room is seen at a medical school in Daegu, South Korea, Monday, March 4, 2024. GOP lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday banning race-based mandates at medical schools and accrediting institutions. (Yun Kwan-shik/Yonhap via AP)

Republicans go all out to ban DEI mandates in medical schools

GOP lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday banning race-based mandates at medical schools and accrediting institutions.

March 19, 2024

Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, June 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump: Will Cassidy Hutchinson be rebuked for ‘fake stories’ to Jan. 6 committee?

Former President Trump asked if his White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson will be prosecuted for her disputed testimony about his actions toward his Secret Service driver on Jan. 6, 2021.

March 19, 2024

Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar speaks before Governor Joe Lombardo signs an election worker protection bill into law as Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar looks on at the old Assembly Chambers in Carson City, Nev., Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Tom R. Smedes)

RNC files election integrity lawsuit against Nevada’s secretary of state

The Republican National Committee filed an election integrity lawsuit Monday against Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar alleging failure to update voter rolls.

March 18, 2024

In this July 23, 2007, file photo, corn, far left, and soy beans carpet fields near Greenwood, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

House hearing scheduled to investigate China’s threat to U.S. agriculture industry

A congressional hearing this week will investigate China's threat to the U.S. agriculture industry amid concerns about increasing foreign ownership of American farmland.

March 18, 2024

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 12, 2024. The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021. The justices did not comment in leaving in place $500 fines issued in May 2021 to U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ralph Norman of South Carolina. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Judge dismisses lawsuit to remove Massie from primary ballot

A Kentucky judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Rep. Thomas Massie by his primary opponent who claimed the GOP congressman did not qualify for the primary ballot.

March 15, 2024

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Az., questions Special Counsel Robert Hur during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

House lawmakers call on leadership not to attach FISA legislation to any ‘must-pass’ bill

House Republican and Democratic lawmakers are pressing Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to avoid attaching Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reform legislation to any must-pass bill such as spending measures.

March 15, 2024

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 12, 2024. The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021. The justices did not comment in leaving in place $500 fines issued in May 2021 to U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ralph Norman of South Carolina. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP primary opponent attempts to throw Massie off ballot over ally’s residence

Rep. Thomas Massie is facing a primary candidate who is attempting to throw the Kentucky Republican off the ballot.

March 14, 2024

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., leaves the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, June 21, 2023. A judge on Monday, March 11, 2024, ended a temporary restraining order Boebert had sought against her ex-husband at her request. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Lauren Boebert won’t resign her seat to run in Colorado’s special election

Rep. Lauren Boebert has no plans to resign from her current House seat to run in a special election triggered by the recent surprise resignation of Rep. Ken Buck in her new district.

March 14, 2024

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson speaks in Detroit, on Sept. 24, 2020. With election season already underway, state election officials are expressing frustration that Congress has so far failed to allocate federal money they typically use for such things as securing voter registration systems, updating equipment and training staff.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

RNC sues Michigan secretary of state over voter roll discrepancies

The Republican National Committee filed a voter roll lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Wednesday.

March 13, 2024

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., walks out of the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2024. Buck announced Tuesday, March 12, that he’ll resign next week, narrowing his party’s razor-thin House majority and scrambling the already heated GOP primary to fill his Colorado seat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Ken Buck’s hasty exit from Congress makes him a target for Republican vitriol

Rep. Ken Buck's surprise announcement Tuesday that he is quitting Congress at the end of next week drew sneers from fellow Republicans.

March 12, 2024

An explosive device is shown outside of the Republican National Committee office, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. As thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, federal agents were working at the same time to detonate this pipe bomb and another, found just blocks away at the offices of the Republican and Democratic National Committees. (AP Photo, File)

Jan. 6 pipe bomb hearing turns into partisan slugfest

A congressional hearing exploring the investigation into the two Jan. 6 pipe bombs left near the Republican and Democratic headquarters three years ago erupted into partisan rancor over the panel's mission.

March 12, 2024

A video of President Donald Trump recording a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House on Jan. 6 is played as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, July 21, 2022. Trump's lawyers have suggested their strategy in his election interference case in Washington involves distancing their client from the horde of U.S. Capitol rioters, whom the former president has embraced on the campaign trail. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Jan. 6 committee kept a lid on testimony Trump pushed for extra troops at Capitol

The Democrat-run House Jan. 6 committee suppressed testimony about President Trump pushing for National Guard troops to protect the U.S. Capitol on the day of the riot.

March 11, 2024

The hearing room is set for committee members to enter as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol prepares to hold a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

House report questions Jan. 6 Select Committee subpoena authority, citing violations of rules

House Democrats played fast and loose with the rules when they formed the Jan. 6 Select Committee, according to a new report released by the oversight panel of the House Administration Committee.

March 11, 2024

Former President Donald Trump, right, listens as his daughter-in-law Lara Trump speaks at the North Carolina Republican Convention, June 5, 2021, in Greenville, N.C. Donald Trump is calling for a shakeup at the highest levels of the Republican National Committee. And party leaders are taking it very seriously. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, Fike)

RNC members see Lara Trump as a sharp message maker, answer to their fundraising struggles

Party leaders gathered here over the weekend for the Republican National Committee's spring meeting are hopeful new co-chair Lara Trump, with her famous last name and media presence, can fix the organization's fundraising struggles.

March 10, 2024

Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel arrives on stage before House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks at an event on Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington. McDaniel says she will leave her post on March 8. She's leaving the GOP’s national leadership as Donald Trump moves toward another presidential nomination and asserts new control over the party. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Ronna McDaniel calls for GOP to unite in tearful goodbye speech

Former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel got weepy Friday as she bid farewell to the RNC, calling on the members to heal divisions within the party.

March 8, 2024

Former President Donald Trump, left, is welcomed by Michael Whatley, then-chairman of the N.C. GOP, before he speaks at the North Carolina Republican Convention, June 5, 2021, in Greenville, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) ** FILE **

New leadership team takes over the RNC

The Republican National Committee elected its new senior leadership team Friday at the party's annual spring meeting, closing the book on Ronna McDaneil's longtime stewardship of the Republican Party.

March 8, 2024