This afternoon the DC Circuit Court temporarily blocked the release of documents sought by the House special committee investigating the January 6th insurrection. This comes after U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled against former President Trump’s claims of executive privilege and denied his request to stay the ruling subject to appeal. The stay stops the release, which was supposed to have begun tomorrow, until the circuit court can rule on the appeal.
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Late last night, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan denied Trump’s emergency motion to block the Jan. 6 panel’s subpoena from going into effect while the former president appealed her earlier decision that the subpoena was valid.
The National Archives are due to start providing the material Trump claims is privileged on Friday, meaning he has just a few business hours left to stop those materials from winding up in the committee’s hands.
How might this play out? Josh Kovensky delved into some of those eventualities yesterday.
Jan. 6 Committee Seeks Information From Several Members Of Pence’s Inner Circle
The House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 is looking into gathering information from at least five people close to former Vice President Mike Pence, according to CNN.
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Committee Seeks Information From Several Members Of Pence’s Inner Circle”Where Things Stand: New DHS Bulletin Lines Up With Violence Themes We’ve Been Covering For A While
Domestic extremists are still capitalizing on the spread of disinfo to encourage violence in online forums, according to a new anti-terrorism bulletin from the Department Of Homeland Security set to be released today.
And in promoting online violence, domestic extremists are targeting entities we’re all a bit too familiar with: members of Congress, public health officials and school board members.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: New DHS Bulletin Lines Up With Violence Themes We’ve Been Covering For A While”Will A Court Rescue Trump From Friday’s Deadline For The Jan. 6 Subpoena?
With former President Trump’s bid to block a Jan. 6 Committee subpoena dispatched at the district level, he’s now trying to win the case on appeal.
Trump is aiming for either the D.C. Circuit or the Supreme Court to rescue his effort to block the investigation. It’s likely that we’ll have a good idea over the coming week of how the case will play out.
But first he needs to stop the National Archives from complying with its Friday deadline to turn over documents pursuant to the subpoena, otherwise his case will be moot.
Continue reading “Will A Court Rescue Trump From Friday’s Deadline For The Jan. 6 Subpoena?”Trump Had A Chance At A $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Too. He Threw A Fit Instead.
“It’s infrastructure week!”
Now, it really is — or so says Joe Biden. But let us remember an earlier time, before the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill last week, and before Democrats spent every week of the past several months haggling with each other to get their reconciliation package across the finish line.
Continue reading “Trump Had A Chance At A $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Too. He Threw A Fit Instead.”Virginia School Board Divided Over Whether to Ban or Burn Books
The County School Board in Spotsylvania County, Virginia is divided. Not over whether to remove books that they define as “sexually explicit” from the district’s school libraries. They voted unanimously (6-0) to do so, though one board member wasn’t present. The division was between those members who wanted to remove the books and those who wanted to remove them from the shelves also burn them.
Continue reading “Virginia School Board Divided Over Whether to Ban or Burn Books”5 Points On How Trump’s Latest Endorsement Shows GOP Embrace Of Armed Militancy
Donald Trump on Wednesday night announced his endorsement in the competitive Idaho Republican gubernatorial primary: Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who’s made a name for herself as the state’s second-in-command by repeatedly sidling up to armed militia groups and staking a far-right claim in state politics.
Continue reading “5 Points On How Trump’s Latest Endorsement Shows GOP Embrace Of Armed Militancy”Last Week’s Local Elex Results Send Mixed Signals About Where Democratic Party Is Headed
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In overwhelmingly Democratic big cities, local races are usually between corporate Democrats and progressive Democrats. Both wings of the party scored victories in citywide races and ballot questions last week, including several wins for tenants’ rights activists.
Continue reading “Last Week’s Local Elex Results Send Mixed Signals About Where Democratic Party Is Headed”BIF Supporting GOPer Decries Backlash As Trump Throws A Fit Over Legislation He Failed To Achieve
Rep. David McKinley (R-WV), who broke rank alongside 12 of his colleagues to vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill last week, decried the politicization of his support for the bill from fellow Republicans.
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