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- House January 6 committee has decided to make criminal referrals, chairman says
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 03:48 PMThe House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has decided to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, the panel's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, told reporters Tuesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Arizona Republican announces run for House speaker, complicating McCarthy's path
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 03:48 PMHouse GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy's bid for the speakership grew more complicated on Tuesday after a hard-right Republican announced his bid for the gavel next month, a move that could set off a messy floor fight and leave their party without a candidate who can win the 218 votes needed to become speaker.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Family of fallen officer snubs McCarthy and McConnell as Congress honors law enforcement who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 03:48 PMThe family of a fallen officer snubbed top congressional Republicans on Tuesday at a ceremony held to honor law enforcement who defended the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to follow Georgia's Senate runoff election
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 12:01 PMIt's Election Day in the Peach State once again.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Democrats want a 51-49 majority
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 08:49 AMIf Democrats win the Senate runoff in Georgia and secure a slim 51-49 majority over Republicans, they will have significant governing advantages compared to the 50-50 split in the current Congress, during which a power sharing agreement gives Republicans considerable leverage over Democrats despite being in the minority.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kevin McCarthy faces debt-limit dilemma as House GOP ratchets up demands amid speaker bid
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 08:49 AMHouse Republicans are plotting tactics for their new majority and weighing how to use their leverage to enact a laundry list of demands, with many zeroing in on an issue with enormous economic implications: Raising the nation's borrowing limit.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Georgia voters once again have the last word during election season
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 01:15 AMOn the final day of overtime in Georgia, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock exuded confidence, but warned supporters against being complacent in his runoff election with Republican nominee and former football great Herschel Walker.
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Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 01:14 AMLorie Smith, a graphic designer seeking to start an online business to celebrate weddings but does not want to work with same-sex couples, explains why she took her case to the Supreme Court even though she has not yet violated a Colorado public accommodations law.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump faces yet another reckoning in Georgia
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 01:14 AMDonald Trump is 0-for-an awful lot in Georgia since 2016.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Federal judge throws out bribery, fraud charges against former New York lieutenant governor
Monday - 12/05/2022 - 05:11 PMA federal judge has thrown out bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, saying the prosecutors did not allege a sufficient quid pro quo.
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- Trump's Save America PAC paying legal bills for witnesses in Mar-a-Lago probe
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 03:48 PMDonald Trump's Save America PAC has been footing the legal bills for additional Trump aides and allies whom federal investigators have subpoenaed for grand jury testimony as part of investigations surrounding the former president, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - DOJ subpoenas officials in Wisconsin and Michigan for communications with Trump around 2020 election
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 03:48 PMSpecial counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed local officials in Wisconsin and Michigan for any and all communications with then-President Donald Trump, his 2020 campaign and a number of aides and allies, multiple sources confirmed to CNN.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Republicans call for investigation into NY attorney general's handling of misconduct allegations against chief of staff
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 03:48 PMRepublican lawmakers in New York state are calling for an investigation into Democratic Attorney General Letitia James days after her chief of staff resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It's Election Day in Georgia
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 03:48 PMIt's Election Day in Georgia
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Second Oath Keepers sedition trial presents new challenges for prosecutors
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 08:49 AMOne week after the historic seditious conspiracy conviction of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, federal prosecutors will try to once again prove that other members of the far-right militia were planning to violently stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election.
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Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 08:49 AMWhile hearing a case about whether a graphic designer can refuse to serve gay couples, the Supreme Court debated whether a shopping mall Santa Claus could decline to take a photo with a child dressed in a KKK costume.
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Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 01:14 AMAnderson Cooper looks at how former and current GOP lawmakers reacted to former President Donald Trump's statement on terminating the Constitution in this "Keeping Them Honest."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alito's mentions of Ashley Madison and children wearing KKK costumes cap an awkward Supreme Court day
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 01:14 AMAs the Supreme Court gathered for more than two hours on Monday to discuss whether a graphic designer can refuse to do business with same-sex couples, the justices somehow strayed into dueling hypotheticals concerning Black and White Santas and dating websites.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Supreme Court won't hear case brought by a group of voters against Dominion Voting Systems and Facebook
Monday - 12/05/2022 - 05:11 PMThe Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought against Dominion Voting Systems and Facebook after the 2020 election by a group of voters who claimed the companies illegally "influenced or interfered with" the contest.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Defense bill likely to include end to military Covid vaccine mandate, source says
Monday - 12/05/2022 - 05:11 PMA massive bill setting defense policy is likely to end the military Covid vaccine mandate, a source familiar with the negotiations tells CNN, coming on the heels of intense GOP lobbying to kill the mandate and acceptance from leading Democrats that it's time for a change.
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- Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller returns to testify before January 6 federal grand jury
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 03:48 PMFormer Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Tuesday returned for another day of testimony before the federal grand jury investigating January 6, 2021, and efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - McConnell criticizes Trump's comments on the Constitution
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 03:48 PMSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized former President Donald Trump's comments in a post on Truth Social earlier this week that called for the "termination" of the Constitution.
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Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 03:48 PMThe family of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick snubbed Republican leaders Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy at a ceremony held to honor law enforcement who defended the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, insurrection.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How Bush v. Gore led to the new monumental challenge to presidential election rules
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 08:49 AMWhen Chief Justice William Rehnquist helped decide the 2000 presidential election, his radical legal theory failed to gain a majority. But today's conservative court is giving it another chance, in a case that could transform elections in 2024 and beyond.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5 things to watch as Georgia decides Warnock vs. Walker Senate runoff
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 08:49 AMThe final drama of the 2022 midterm elections is coming to a head in Georgia on Tuesday, as Peach State voters -- for the second time in as many years -- cast ballots in a high-stakes US Senate runoff.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2022 Georgia Senate runoff election results
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 08:49 AMDemocratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is facing GOP challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia's Dec. 6 Senate runoff election. Follow here for results and the latest live news updates.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-DOJ official and former counsel in Trump Org. probe joins Manhattan DA's office
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 01:15 AMMatthew Colangelo -- who recently served as a senior official in the US Justice Department and before that served as an attorney on the Trump Foundation investigation with the New York attorney general's office -- will now serve as senior counsel to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, according to an announcement from the office.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Conservative justices come to same-sex marriage controversy with minds made up
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 01:14 AMAt the Supreme Court, the conservative majority seems to have a new mantra that half way is no way.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Trump's legacy became 'pure poison' for independents
Tuesday - 12/06/2022 - 01:14 AMThe highly touted red wave in last month's midterm election failed to develop largely because it hit a wall of resistance among independent voters, especially across the key battleground states.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- MAGA-world keeps losing in its efforts to tie up Trump criminal probes in court
Monday - 12/05/2022 - 05:11 PMThe former president sometimes called "Teflon Don" is learning that sometimes, the subpoenas do stick.
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