Tag Archives: Capitol

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) hosted a powerful sit-in at the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, drawing hundreds of supporters to protest Republican plans to pass a $1.5 trillion federal spending cut through budget reconciliation. Beginning at 6 a.m., Booker and Jeffries led the sit-in …

James Brooks, Alaska Beacon An Anchorage Superior Court Judge ruled Thursday that Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman is likely ineligible for public office but ordered that he remain on the state’s Nov. 8 election ballots, pending the result of a trial in December. Eastman is heavily favored in the general …

Eric Neugeboren, The Texas Tribune Guy Reffitt, a Texan who prosecutors said “lit the match” of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 7 1/4 years in prison on Monday, the longest sentence of any rioter to date but less than what the Justice Department had …

Jacob Fischler, Virginia Mercury Donald Trump ignored White House staff, family members and outside advisers who urged the president to call off the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to testimony before the U.S. House panel investigating the insurrection at its eighth and final hearing of …

Jacob Fischler, Michigan Advance The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan.6 attack and Donald Trump’s role in it will focus in a Thursday evening hearing on the former president’s refusal for more than three hours to call off the rioters storming the U.S. Capitol, committee aides said Wednesday. The hearing …

by Jacob Fischler, Florida Phoenix The U.S. House panel investigating Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results described Tuesday how the president explicitly called on his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 for a “wild” protest — resulting in an insurrection. Trump exerted extraordinary …

by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent June 16, 2022 The private and public conflict between Donald Trump and Mike Pence over certifying the 2020 election results put the vice president within steps of the Jan. 6 attackers, the U.S. House committee investigating the insurrection said Thursday. As the mob approached the …

Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Donald Trump’s incessant and frequently outlandish lies about the 2020 election were in the spotlight Monday as a special House committee laid out its case that the former president’s falsehoods about widespread voter fraud were pivotal in catalyzing the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on …

Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams “Ok, we know Scott Perry. Who were the other members of Congress who asked Trump for a pardon?” That’s what the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and others wanted to know after U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Thursday night that …

by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent A widely anticipated hearing Thursday by the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol alleged two groups supporting then-President Donald Trump planned the riot to stop the transfer of presidential power — while Trump tacitly endorsed the insurrection and …

by Jacob Fischler, Virginia Mercury The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol will launch the first in a series of public hearings Thursday night in the hopes of drawing a major prime-time national television audience. The Democratic-led committee, which includes two Republicans who …

A jury issued a unanimous verdict of guilty on all counts Monday for a former Virginia police officer charged in the January 6 Capitol riot. Thomas Robertson, 49, of Ferrum, Virginia, was found guilty of a total of six charges following a trial in the District of Columbia. The jury found …

A leader of the Proud Boys pleaded guilty on Friday to felony charges for his actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Charles Donohoe, 34, of North Carolina, pleaded guilty to two felony counts, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting …

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol is asking Ivanka Trump, daughter of former President Donald Trump, to co-operate with its probe voluntarily. The committee sent a letter this week requesting a meeting with Ivanka Trump, who served as an adviser to her father, in …

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the nation on Thursday, marking the anniversary of the deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. Speaking from Statuary Hall in the Capitol, where Trump supporters violently surged, President Biden said the US …