Two grand juries in Fulton County Georgia will likely soon be asked to consider issuing subpoenas in the investigation into possible election interference by former President Donald Trump, the county’s district attorney said.
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Now that the COVID relief bill has passed the nation’s politics are stuck in an uncanny pause or floating space. I can’t think of any analog to it in my living memory or any obvious one in the decades of previous history. Democrats have a big and fairly dramatic legislative agenda. They appear to have buy-in for much though not all of it from all fifty senators in their caucus. The question is whether they’ll make some basic change to the rules of the senate to make it possible to pass legislation with majority votes.
After failing to steal electoral victory for Donald Trump, conspiracy-curious lawyer Lin Wood is setting his sights on the South Carolina Republican Party.
The Hill reported Monday morning that Wood, who recently decamped to South Carolina from his native Georgia, is seeking the chairmanship of the South Carolina Republican Party.
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With former President Trump fading further into the distance, top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has been increasingly forthright about his frustrating experience battling the coronavirus pandemic in the previous administration.
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Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) took to Sunday cable news programs to argue that Democrats are pulling the “race card” amid their growing calls to reform the filibuster, following President Biden’s Jim Crow comparisons regarding the Senate procedure and Georgia’s new overhaul of its election rules. Continue reading “GOP Senators Defend Filibuster By Accusing Dems Of Pulling ‘Race Card’”
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) on Sunday came to his colleague Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) defense following backlash from former President Trump and the Alaska Republican Party over her vote to convict Trump for “incitement of insurrection.” Continue reading “AK GOP Senator Stands By Murkowski Amid Backlash Over Her Vote To Impeach Trump”
Dr. Deborah Birx, who previously served as the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator under the Trump administration, recalled having a “very uncomfortable” and “very difficult” phone call with former President Trump after warning about widespread cases of COVID-19 nation wide during an interview on CNN set to air Sunday night. Continue reading “Birx Reveals ‘Very Uncomfortable’ Call With Trump After She Raised Alarms On COVID-19”
After more than a year of crisis we can all taste the end of the COVID pandemic. The rapidly accelerating rate of vaccinations secures that hope firmly in reality. For the moment though we remain in a standoff with the virus. In key parts of the country we’re actually losing ground.
There’s no question that COVID cases are now on the rise in the Greater New York region and have at least plateaued in much of the Northeast. Michigan, particularly metro-Detroit, is in the midst of surge. Cases there have more than doubled in the last two weeks. New York and Michigan are among 22 states where the number of COVID infections have gone up at least 10% over the last week.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) on Sunday decried Georgia’s new overhaul of its election rules, days after President Biden issued a blistering statement characterizing the legislation’s provisions as “Jim Crow in the 21st century.”
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Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) who recently announced a bid for Senate, is calling the pro-Trump mob who stormed the Capitol “fools,” after previously lauding those who appeared at the Ellipse during a rally before the Capitol was breached as “American patriots.” Continue reading “Mo Brooks Now Calls Capitol Rioters ‘Fools’”
