House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) informed her Democratic colleagues on Sunday night of plans to move forward with impeachment if Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet don’t remove President Donald Trump from office via the 25th Amendment.
Some GOPers Blame Colleagues’ Anti-Democracy Scheme For Fueling Capitol Riots
Some prominent Republicans on Sunday took aim at members of their party who vowed to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory last week, arguing that those who egged on President Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the election process also fed into Trump’s incitement of his supporters before they ultimately breached the Capitol. Continue reading “Some GOPers Blame Colleagues’ Anti-Democracy Scheme For Fueling Capitol Riots”
Twitter Users Roast Mulvaney For Taking Zero Responsibility In Enabling Trump
Fresh off of his resignation following the deadly insurrection at the Capitol that President Trump incited, former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was swiftly called out by Twitter users on Sunday when he took no responsibility for enabling Trump throughout his time serving in the President’s administration. Continue reading “Twitter Users Roast Mulvaney For Taking Zero Responsibility In Enabling Trump”
Clyburn Floats Impeachment Trial Delay Until After Biden’s First 100 Days In Office
House Majority James Clyburn (D-SC) on Sunday raised the possibility of House Democrats choosing to wait until after President-elect Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office to send any articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate. Continue reading “Clyburn Floats Impeachment Trial Delay Until After Biden’s First 100 Days In Office”
Congress Attending Physician Warns Of Potential COVID Exposure From Taking Shelter Amid Siege
Attending Physician of Congress Dr. Brian Monahan on Sunday warned that members of the House community may potentially have been exposed to COVID-19 after having to huddle together in a secure location during last week’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Toomey Joins Murkowski’s Call For Trump To Resign: ‘Best Path Forward’
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) on Sunday took his stance on President Trump having “committed impeachable offenses” further by calling on the sitting president to resign, following the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this week that Trump incited, during an interview on CNN. Continue reading “Toomey Joins Murkowski’s Call For Trump To Resign: ‘Best Path Forward’”
A Headless Government
One thought I keep returning to: if there were a functioning federal government we’d be seeing regular press conferences updating the public on on-going arrests, health status of the injured, progress of the investigation. As far as I can tell there hasn’t been a single one. Nothing from DOJ, FBI, Capitol Police, the Pentagon. Normally you might expect such information to be channeled through press conferences at the White House. But, not to put too fine a point on it, it’s not clear or perhaps too clear which side the White House is on.
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Crisis
The US is in the midst of the gravest crisis of executive authority in its almost 250 year history. We may later learn that some of these reports are incomplete or even erroneous. But based on reliable reporting, the Vice President is considering or at least “not ruling out” removing the President from office, pursuant to the 25th Amendment. The Speaker of the House has conferred with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about protecting the country’s nuclear arsenal from the President. (Just as importantly she announced this publicly, with the tacit silence of the country’s top general.) The House is moving rapidly toward impeaching the President and while it still seems unlikely it is now by no means impossible that the Senate will vote to remove him from office. Over just the first days of January President Trump has committed a number of acts which are reasonably viewed as statutory felonies – solicitation of election fraud, obstruction of justice, incitement to riot, et al.
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GOP Sen. Toomey Calls Trump Offenses ‘Impeachable’
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey (PA) said on Saturday that he believed President Donald Trump had “committed impeachable offenses” after the President incited what turned into a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this week.
“I do think the President committed impeachable offenses,” Toomey told Fox News on Saturday.
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White House Ousted Atlanta U.S. Attorney For Not Pursuing Bogus Election Fraud Probe
The top federal prosecutor in Atlanta was ousted from his role by the White House because he refused to investigate bogus allegations of election fraud pushed by President Trump in Georgia, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.