The historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump marks the first time a president will face impeachment after leaving office, and many Republicans claim the trial of a former president is unconstitutional. But most legal experts disagree. “Of course the Senate can conduct this trial,” says Alan Hirsch, author and chair of the Justice and Law Studies program at Williams College.
The GOP senator complained that “Team Biden is soft on China.” Critics noted that Team Cruz is soft on domestic insurrectionists.
The Biden administration’s move would allow both David Weiss of Delaware and John Durham of Connecticut to continue working politically sensitive cases.
“This is obviously a significant and potential dangerous increase,” the sheriff said after the amount of lye in the water rose 11,000%.
In a win for progressives, the proposal retains the previous income threshold below which Americans would qualify for the full payment.
An estimated 27 million workers would see raises, though there would be 1.4 million fewer jobs.
With former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial set to begin in the Senate this week, we feature the speech Democratic Congressmember Cori Bush of Missouri made Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives to demand accountability for the attack on the U.S. Capitol. “On January 3, we stood together to swear our oath to office, to the Constitution. We swore to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic,” Bush said.
As Democrats in Congress push forward on passing President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion stimulus package, many experts say measures to combat the economic fallout from COVID-19 must address the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on women — especially women of color. Women in the U.S. lost 5.
The World Health Organization estimates there have been 51,312 confirmed cases and 522 deaths from COVID-19 in Gaza since reporting began in July 2020, and the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees warns the Gaza Strip’s health system could collapse if the number of cases continues to rise.
In a landmark decision, judges at the International Criminal Court say the body has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, opening the door to possible criminal charges against Israel and militant groups like Hamas.
President Donald Trump broke with decades of U.S. foreign policy in the waning days of his administration and recognized Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, a territory the country has occupied since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community. U.S.
President Joe Biden has pledged to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, supported by both the Obama and Trump administrations, describing it as a “humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.” The six-year war in Yemen has devastated the country, killing at least 100,000 people and pushing 80% of the country into instability requiring some form of aid or protection, according to the United Nations. Biden’s remarks on Yemen come amid a freeze of U.S.
As the U.S Senate prepares its impeachment trial of President Trump for inciting the January 6 insurrection, House lawmakers took to the floor Thursday to detail their experiences and demand accountability. We air excerpts from dramatic speeches by Democratic Congressmembers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
Countries across the African continent are facing a second COVID-19 outbreak, linked to a variant first found in South Africa that has been detected in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Comoros and Zambia and more than 20 non-African countries so far. There is concern new variants, which scientists believe are more infectious, could spread the virus further before widespread vaccination begins.
Navarro claimed Barr was essentially Joe Biden’s “first attorney general.” (He wasn’t.
The Biden administration is set to reengage with the agency three years after the Trump administration dropped out due to its disproportionate focus on Israel.
“We have been cleaning up after violent, white supremacist mobs for generations and it must end,” the Massachusetts lawmaker said.
The Republican senator said Trump will “get his share of blame in history” for the Jan. 6 insurrection, but stopped short of supporting his impeachment trial.
Cheney reportedly refused the request from McCarthy, the top Republican in the House.
President Donald Trump broke with decades of U.S. foreign policy in the waning days of his administration and recognized Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, a territory the country has occupied since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community. U.S.
President Joe Biden has pledged to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, supported by both the Obama and Trump administrations, describing it as a “humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.” The six-year war in Yemen has devastated the country, killing at least 100,000 people and pushing 80% of the country into instability requiring some form of aid or protection, according to the United Nations. Biden’s remarks on Yemen come amid a freeze of U.S.
As the U.S Senate prepares its impeachment trial of President Trump for inciting the January 6 insurrection, House lawmakers took to the floor Thursday to detail their experiences and demand accountability. We air excerpts from dramatic speeches by Democratic Congressmembers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
Countries across the African continent are facing a second COVID-19 outbreak, linked to a variant first found in South Africa that has been detected in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Comoros and Zambia and more than 20 non-African countries so far. There is concern new variants, which scientists believe are more infectious, could spread the virus further before widespread vaccination begins.
“Never surrender, and fight for America!” Stone says on the tape as he rails against the results of a democratic election surrounded by Proud Boys.
Trump’s attorneys are missing the point, they write: Did Trump violate his oath of office to uphold the Constitution?
The censure document accused Cheney of voting to impeach even though the U.S. House didn’t offer Trump “formal hearing or due process.
Video obtained by ABC News shows the Donald Trump confidant flanked by members of the far-right militia the morning of the insurrection.
The GOP lawmakers were the first to be fined for refusing to cooperate with the new security policy, put in place after last month’s deadly Capitol insurrection.
The former president has a history of “erratic behavior,” Biden cautioned.
The cable channel cut “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” hosted by the staunch Trump ally.