Senate prepares for Mayorkas impeachment articles while GOP braces for possible dismissal motion These few senators will ultimately decide what happens upon swearing in, as the Senate's party split is narrow at 49-51. In an effort to force senators to allow a full trial, a number of Senate ... 04/15/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
GOP plans to grind Senate to a halt if Democrats table Mayorkas impeachment trial EXCLUSIVE: Republican senators are gearing up to prevent all legislative business in the Senate from going forward if they don't get a full trial into the articles of impeachment against Homeland ... 04/10/2024 - 3:49 am | View Link
Defying GOP threats of contempt, DOJ declines to hand over audio of Biden's interview with Robert Hur President Joe Biden speaks on the Senate's recent passage of the National Security Supplemental Bill, which provides military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, at the White House, Feb. 13 ... 04/8/2024 - 5:06 am | View Link
Freedom Caucus seeks to push Missouri’s GOP farther right even if it means causing a ruckus Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, gives a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, as Freedom Caucus members continued to hold up action. Video provided by the Senate media ... 04/6/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
Top fundraisers vie to succeed McConnell as Senate GOP Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who has served as the Senate’s Republican whip since 2021, and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who served as the party’s whip from 2013 to 2019. Both senators are expected to focus on ... 04/4/2024 - 5:12 am | View Link
Manhattan prosecutors identified seven new violations by Donald Trump of the gag order against him in the “hush-money” criminal case.
The judge is expected to take up the violations next Wednesday when the trial is on recess.
“Jury selection is set to resume Friday morning in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York,” the Washington Post reports.
“Twelve jurors have been picked to hear the case, along with one alternate. Five more alternates are still being sought, and opening statements are expected to begin Monday.”
Associated Press: “One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound.
Republican voters should be absolutely furious with their elected leaders.
As I wrote in 2013 on the fight over Obamacare:
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“Speaker Mike Johnson’s sudden bid to deliver aid to Ukraine came days after fresh intelligence described the U. S. ally at a true make-or-break moment in its war with Russia,” Politico reports.
“It was exactly the kind of dire assessment that President Joe Biden and the White House had spent months privately warning Johnson was inevitable.”
“The Biden administration is considering more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel including tank ammunition, military vehicles and mortar rounds, U. S. officials said, at a time of heightened scrutiny of the use of American-made weapons in the war in Gaza,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The proposed weapons transfers—which would be in addition to those in a military aid deal currently before the Congress—would be among the largest to Israel since it invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, on Oct.