WASHINGTON — Some Americans still feel the need to witness history in person. When Andrew Johnson became the first president to be impeached in in 1868, a first-hand account was the only account. Radio was still 30-odd years away from being invented, television another 30 after that, and anyone who …
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WASHINGTON —Seventy-seven days. Beginning with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s formal announcement of an impeachment investigation in late September, it took 77 days for the House to produce articles of impeachment resulting from President Trump’s shakedown scheme with the Ukrainian government. House Democratic staffers worked through the night to put the finishing …
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Democratic candidate and former vice president Joe Biden got into a feisty exchange with a voter at a town hall in Iowa following his endorsement by John Kerry on Thursday, calling an attendee a “damn liar” and challenging him to a push-up contest. “We all know Trump has been messing …
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During the impeachment process, one of President Donald Trump’s go-to attempts at deflection is to claim that because the Democrats are caught up in the inquiry, they are getting nothing done legislatively, often tweeting the phrase “Do Nothing Democrats.” On Sunday, freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) scolded the president on …
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For all the expectations that Democrats had been sharpening their knives ready to carve up an ascendant Mayor Pete at the debate in Atlanta on Wednesday night, it was Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, floundering at two percent nationally, who ended up on the menu for her fellow Democrats. “I think that …
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“I think [Trump] knows full well that he’s in that office way over his head,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday morning. Pelosi was a guest on CBS News’ Face the Nation and when asked why the president tweeted about Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony in …
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Elections have consequences, and when white nationalists get elected, those consequences can be catastrophic. The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments on the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era program that shielded some undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children from deportation, as well as allowed …
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WASHINGTON —Thursday, November 7 was a fateful day for the courts in America. By an 86-2 margin, the U.S. Senate approved William Nardini to a lifetime appointment on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals — Trump’s 45th appointment of an appeals-court judge. On the same day, the Senate Judiciary Committee …
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The House of Representatives on Thursday held its first full vote on the impeachment inquiry launched last month by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the chamber’s Democratic majority. The vote, which fell largely along partisan lines, formalizes the rules for the forthcoming public phase of the inquiry, and comes as …
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On the Santa Monica Pier in California on Saturday, video captured a man in a MAGA hat showering anti-Trump protesters with bear repellent. According to the Los Angeles Times, anti-Trump protesters were met by a group of Trump supporters after moving from the beach to the pier. Santa Monica police …
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