A New York federal appeals judge derailed House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan’s planned Thursday deposition of Mark Pomerantz, the former Manhattan special prosecutor who helmed a criminal investigation of Donald Trump — issuing a temporary stay of the Republican firebrand’s subpoena. The decision stemmed from Jordan’s demand that Pomerantz …
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Nearly 140 Republican members of the House of Representatives voted against certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, and now a lone member of that group has come forward to say he regrets it. “In retrospect I should have voted to certify,” Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) told Politico on Wednesday. “Because …
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a Mississippi case that could overturn Roe v. Wade. After almost two hours of oral argument, it’s clear that the fate of nationwide legal abortion is now in the hands of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. That’s not good news for the future of abortion …
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President Obama arrived at the climate conference in Glasgow like a spirit from another time. He wore a black suit and gray shirt, tieless. A crowd of star-struck delegates parted like holy water around him. They all remembered the happy days of the Paris climate agreement in 2015, when he …
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Top allies of Donald Trump are putting together a legal fund to support rally organizers who’ve been subpoenaed as part of Congress’ investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to multiple people familiar with the effort. The legal fund demonstrates how wealthy and powerful people within Trump’s inner …
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of only two Republicans sitting on the Jan. 6 committee, will not seek reelection for his House seat in 2022. In a video posted to Twitter on Friday morning, Kinzinger announced his decision in a nearly five-minute address, saying, “I also remember during that campaign …
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Oklahoma State Senator David Rader, a Republican, is under fire for referring to Asian American families as “yellow families” when speaking to a criminal justice policy analyst testifying before the legislature about the racial wealth gap, KFOR reported late Friday. In a presentation to the state senate, Damion Shade, who …
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Jon Stewart thinks the media’s focus on Donald Trump misses the larger point, which is that our democracy is being threatened by much larger systems, he told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union Sunday. The comedian appeared on the news network to promote his new show,The Problem With …
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Ambassador Daniel Foote, the Special Envoy for Haiti, has chosen to resign rather than carry out the Biden administration’s plans to deport refugees from Haiti currently at the U.S.-Mexico border, Jake Johnston from the Center for Economic and Policy Research first reported. “I will not be associated with the United …
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At the height of last year’s Black Lives Matter uprising, a recording surfaced of a call President Trump held with state governors. In it, he made a comparison: “This is like Occupy Wall Street.” He urged them to waste no time in repeating the coordinated police assaults that had swept …
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