by Jim Heath | Jan 11, 2021 | Congress, Headlines, Impeachment, Trump
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a majority of support in the House to impeach Donald Trump, part of a two-front effort to punish and remove him for inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week. Key members of the House Judiciary Committee introduced a...
by Jim Heath | Jan 9, 2021 | Headlines, Inauguration, Joe Biden
President-elect Joe Biden still plans to be sworn in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, exactly two weeks after a pro-Trump mob with rioters wielding Confederate flags stormed the building to attack the very nation Biden was elected to lead. WAPO: That...
by Jim Heath | Jan 9, 2021 | Congress, GOP, Headlines
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) joined calls on Saturday for Republican Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) to resign after they supported objections to the 2020 Electoral College results on Wednesday. Brown referred to the senators’ support of objections...
by Jim Heath | Jan 9, 2021 | Headlines, Trump
A Reuters’ photographer covering Wednesday’s riot on the U.S. Capitol has claimed he heard at least three Trump supporters speak about hanging Vice President Mike Pence from a tree as a ‘traitor’. As the attack unfolded, Donald Trump took to...
by Jim Heath | Jan 9, 2021 | FBI, Headlines, Trump
The stay-at-home dad who looted and smiled for a photo as he made off with a lectern has been arrested in Florida, a day before the QAnon Shaman was also detained for his role in Wednesday’s assault on the Capitol. Adam Johnson, 36, was arrested by federal...