“If only there had been some warning signs about Kavanaugh’s dishonesty,” quipped another advocacy group. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a self-styled moderate who postures as a defender of reproductive rights, has said repeatedly in recent years that she would not support a Supreme Court nominee who demonstrates “hostility” to Roe v. Wade. But late Monday, Politico reported that right-wing Justices […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate on Saturday acquitted former President Donald Trump of inciting insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last month after he urged hundreds of his supporters to confront lawmakers as they were certifying that he had lost last November’s election to Democrat Joe Biden. The Senate voted 57-43 to convict the former U.S. […]
The Senate on Saturday acquitted Donald Trump on the single charge of inciting an insurrection against the United States government, with 43 Republicans voting to let the former president off the hook for his role in the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol Building last month. The largely party-line vote—with every Democrat and just seven […]
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky informed colleagues in an email Saturday morning that he will vote to acquit Donald Trump on the charge of inciting a deadly insurrection, despite admitting less than two weeks after the January 6 assault that the former president “provoked” the right-wing mob. McConnell hid behind a procedural justification for his decision, […]
