by Jim Heath | Jan 22, 2020 | Headlines, Impeachment
President Trump broke his record for tweets posted on a single day during the first day of opening arguments in his Senate impeachment trial. Factba.se, which tracks Trump’s tweets and other public statements, announced at around 5 P.M. ET that Trump had...
by Jim Heath | Jan 21, 2020 | Headlines, Impeachment
Democrats lost the first round in President Trump’s impeachment trial when the Senate voted down attempts by Sen. Chuck Schumer to subpoena a cache of documents from the White House regarding the Ukraine. Lawmakers tabled Schumer’s three amendments on a...
by Jim Heath | Jan 17, 2020 | Headlines, Impeachment
With his Senate trial to begin in earnest next week, President Trump has added some high-profile lawyers to his legal team, including Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz and former independent counsel Ken Starr. Word of the new firepower came as House...
by Jim Heath | Jan 15, 2020 | Headlines, Impeachment
The House today delivered articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate and approved seven Democrats to serve as prosecutors in the third trial of a U.S. president. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signed the articles at a ceremony in the Capitol,...
by Jim Heath | Jan 14, 2020 | Headlines, Impeachment
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says the Senate will begin debating an organizing resolution to start the Senate trial on Tuesday of next week. The GOP leader said Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in senators as jurors this week, before the Martin...
by Jim Heath | Jan 13, 2020 | Headlines, Impeachment
With President Trump facing an impeachment trial over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden, Russian military hackers have been boring into the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the affair. The...
