Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams Amid expectations that the U.S. Supreme Court will soon consider legal arguments that former President Donald Trump should be disqualified from 2024 Republican primary ballots, Democratic Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin on Sunday called for Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from any such cases. Raskin—a constitutional …
Read More »Biden Can ‘Absolutely’ Invoke 14th Amendment Over Debt Ceiling, Says Raskin
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams As congressional leaders prepare for a Tuesday meeting at the White House, Congressman Jamie Raskin, a constitutional scholar, affirmed Sunday that if GOP lawmakers won’t raise the debt ceiling without major spending cuts, President Joe Biden can invoke the 14th Amendment to keep borrowing and avert …
Read More »‘Nonsense!’: Jamie Raskin Rips Republicans Over Unending January 6 Lies
As right-wing politicians and pundits continue to peddle lies and conspiracies related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, Democratic Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin on Wednesday delivered a passionate rebuttal of Republicans’ “nonsense.” Speaking on the House floor, Raskin asserted that …
Read More »Jan. 6 Report Will Lay Out The ‘continuing’ Danger Facing The U.S.
With Republicans poised to take control of he U.S. House of Representatives in January, the committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will likely be dissolved in the coming weeks. But Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told constituents this week that the committee will issue a final report …
Read More »Trump Tweet Invited ‘wild’ Mob To Block Transfer Of Power On Jan. 6, House Panel Says
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 …
Read More »Former Trump Aide Peter Navarro Indicted For Contempt Of Congress
Former White House advisor Peter K. Navarro has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of contempt of Congress stemming from his failure to comply with a subpoena issued by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the United States Capitol. Navarro, 72, is …
Read More »FBI: Most HBCU Bomb Threats May Be Coming From One Juvenile
by Ariana Figueroa, Missouri Independent March 17, 2022 WASHINGTON — A top FBI official told members of a U.S. House panel on Thursday that the agency believes a single juvenile is behind most of the bomb threats made to more than 30 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Ryan Young, executive …
Read More »Trump Tells Former Aides Not To Cooperate With Select Committee
According to The Washington Post, former President Donald Trump has told four former senior aides not to comply with a congressional probe into the January 6 insurrection. The Post reviewed a letter by an attorney for Trump instructing Mark Meadows, Kash Patel, Dan Scavino, and Steve Bannon to essentially ignore …
Read More »Pelosi Announces Picks For Select Committee To Investigate Jan. 6 Attack
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her picks for the select committee to investigate the deadly attack on the United States Capitol. The Select Committee on the January 6th Insurrection will investigate and report upon the facts and causes of the terrorist mob attack on the United States Capitol on January …
Read More »Donald Trump Acquitted In Second Impeachment Trial
Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial came to an end on Saturday after the Senate decided to acquit him on the charge of “incitement of insurrection” following the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol. The vote was 57-43. Every Democrat voted to find him “guilty,” the question technically before the Senate, …
Read More »Watch Live: The Second Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump
The historic second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump has begun. On Wednesday House impeachment managers, led by lead manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, played violent video scenes of the Jan. 6 attack. Some of the footage was never seen before video from Capitol security cameras. The managers spent the …
Read More »GOP Senators Pan Performance Of Trump Attorneys
Various Senate Republicans have publicly criticized former President Donald Trump’s legal defense team’s performance on day 1 of his second impeachment trial. Most of the criticism was reserved for attorney Bruce Castor, who delivered a sometimes rambling and unfocused opening argument while trying to make the case that the trial …
Read More »Senate Says Trump’s Impeachment Trial Is Constitutional
After hours of debate between House impeachment managers and attorneys representing Donald Trump, the Senate voted Tuesday that the trial of a former president is constitutional. The vote was 56-44, with six Republicans joining all 50 Democrats. Those Republicans were Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lisa Murkowski …
Read More »Trump’s Legal Team Rejects Invitation To Testify At Impeachment Trial
On Thursday, House Impeachment managers offered Donald Trump the opportunity to testify at his upcoming Senate impeachment trial, but Trump and his legal team quickly rejected the invitation. According to CNN, the move was to get Trump on record about his role surrounding the January 6 Capitol riot. Now, Democrats …
Read More »Unable To Cast Vote To Impeach, Stacey Plaskett Is Now Impeachment Manager
Delegate Stacey Plaskett could not cast a vote on the House floor last month to impeach former President Donald Trump, although she agreed that he should have been impeached. Because Plaskett represents the Virgin Islands, a U.S. territory and not a state, she is one of 6 non-voting members of …
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