The Republican National Committee last Friday formally approved a resolution that described the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as “legitimate political discourse.” The party’s attempt to rewrite history about what happened on Jan. 6 could have been even more extreme, according to early drafts of the resolution. The New …
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“Ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” This is how the Republican National Committee is describing the mob of Trump supporters that broke into and vandalized the Capitol last Jan. 6, resulting in five deaths and dozens of injured police officers. The very, very kind frame of the violent effort …
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Former President Donald Trump talked to advisers about issuing a mass pardon for the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a report Wednesday from Politico. Trump, two sources tell the publication, mused about whether he could issue broad legal immunity for people who engaged …
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Kyrsten Sinema’s election to the Senate in 2018 was one of the Democratic Party’s few bright spots in an otherwise disappointing election. Democrats took back the House by a slim margin, but actually lost seats in the Senate, narrowly squeezing Sinema into the open slot left by Jeff Flake’s retirement. …
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Donald Trump isn’t known for his generosity when it comes to legal matters — especially lately. He refused to pay Rudy Giuliani for his post-election work spreading voter fraud conspiracy theories (Giuliani has said the former president “ordered” him to do it pro bono). He’s also been successfully milking the …
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“One year ago today, in this sacred place, democracy was attacked, simply attacked,” President Joe Biden began from the Capitol’s Statuary Hall marking in a speech marking the anniversary of Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Biden did not mince words about who was to blame for the riot. “For …
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Donald Trump‘s planned Jan. 6 press conference is no more, and some Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief now that he seems to have realized using the anniversary of a deadly insurrection to push conspiracy theories isn’t a great idea. The former president on Tuesday canceled his event at …
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The remote island of Kauai boasts pristine beaches, jewel-toned tides, and the dubious distinction of being a federally designated “medically underserved area.” In a pandemic that means an unnervingly finite number of ICU beds and ventilators, but even before Covid, women on the island knew the designation meant a crushing …
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Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis wrote a memo dated the day before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol arguing that then-Vice President Mike Pence should refuse to count presidential electors from states won by Joe Biden. In the Jan. 5 memo, obtained by Politico, Ellis went so far as …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci responded to Sen. Ron Johnson‘s (R-Wisc.) absurd assertion that Fauci “overhyped” both the AIDS crisis and Covid-19 pandemic, saying the senator’s claim is “preposterous.” “How do you respond to something as preposterous as that?” the doctor asked incredulously. “Overhyping AIDS? It’s killed over 750,000 Americans and 36 …
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