by Jim Heath | Oct 7, 2021 | 2020, FBI, Headlines, Trump
Former one-term President Trump engaged in a stand-off with top officials in his administration over his controversial pick for attorney general in what his White House lawyer called a ‘murder-suicide pact.’ Findings in the report released today detail a...
by Jim Heath | Aug 10, 2021 | Headlines, Joe Biden
The U.S. Senate today handed President Biden a remarkable $1 trillion victory, passing the largest infrastructure bill in decades, promising years of investment in roads, bridges and internet access. It passed on a vote of 69 to 30 as 19 Republicans joined Democratic...
by Jim Heath | May 28, 2021 | GOP, Headlines
The bipartisan push to launch an independent and nonpartisan investigation of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol suffered a fatal blow today, after nearly all Senate Republicans banded together in opposition. The 54-to-35 outcome, six votes shy of the 60 needed to...
by Jim Heath | Feb 9, 2021 | Headlines, Impeachment
His daughter asked him not to go. “It was the day after we buried her brother, our son Tommy, the saddest day of our lives,” said Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), the lead House impeachment manager. But Raskin knew he couldn’t stay home on Jan. 6, he explained on the...
by Jim Heath | Feb 9, 2021 | Headlines, Impeachment, Trump
Members of the Senate today were shown a graphic video at the start of former President Trump’s impeachment trial, laden with violence and obscenities shouted by the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6. The video — much of which emerged...