ArchiveOctober 2019

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Monday that the House of Representatives will vote later this week on a resolution to set forth a transparent and fair process for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s alleged high crimes and misdemeanors. But after weeks of complaining about the process, House Republicans reacted angrily to the news. In a letter to her caucus...

Donald Trump ran for president vowing to immediately liberate America’s cities from crime and poverty. Instead, he has delighted in highlighting the problems facing those same cities and blaming the Democratic officials they elect. At an Austin, Texas, campaign rally in August 2016, Trump promised to crack down on gang and cartel violence. “I will appoint prosecutors who will go into...

A local newspaper is demanding Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) resign immediately for his continuing support of Donald Trump and for disappointing constituents. “Only a few times in history has the United States faced an internal threat as profound as the one posed by the lawless President Trump, and all Americans who want to preserve the nation’s institutions are obliged to act,” the...

Virginia state Sen. Bryce Reeves, a Republican representing a district east of Charlottesville who is currently running for reelection, does not consider what stay at home parents do all day to be “work.” “Last time I looked, my opponent’s not working day to day,” Reeves said about Democratic nominee Amy Laufer. Laufer, who lists “stay at home mom” as her...

Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) announced on Monday that he will retire rather than seek reelection in 2020, becoming the 17th House Republican to head for the exits, Politico reported. Walden — who serves as the ranking member of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee — claimed to Politico that his retirement was not because he was worried about his own reelection, nor because he felt...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is still outraged that two people at a restaurant expressed their displeasure with him earlier this month, and in an interview on Sunday, he cited that encounter to claim that only those on the left were uncivil. Paul appeared on former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s (R) eponymous Trinity Broadcasting Network program over the weekend. After explaining that he was right...

The House’s impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s alleged plot to withhold critical security aid to Ukraine in order to force them into investigating his political adversaries is now entering its second month — yet Senate Republicans are still struggling with how to handle it. And, according to the Washington Post, Republicans are reluctant to defend Trump’s behavior both...

Rep. Katie Hill, a freshman Democrat representing a district north of Los Angeles, offered her resignation this past weekend, after intimate photographs of Hill and one of her former campaign staffers were published on a conservative site without her consent. Hill has since vowed to pursue all legal remedies for the leak, which Hill suggested her “abusive husband” may have been behind...

Since the news broke that Donald Trump had pushed the president of Ukraine to help his 2020 reelection campaign by digging up dirt on his political opponents in an apparent quid pro quo for security aid, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has been one of Trump’s most ubiquitous defenders. But a new Washington Post story revealed on Monday that he was an even bigger part of the unfolding scandal than...

It may have been the weekend, but the House’s work in its impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump didn’t rest. Lawmakers on Saturday deposed yet another figure in the Ukrainian scandal threatening Trump’s presidency: Acting Assistant Secretary of European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker. According to Bloomberg News, Reeker testified that he was upset that Secretary of State...