Attorney General William Barr has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next month, the panel’s chairman Jerry Nadler said Wednesday, giving them a forum to press the attorney general on the sentencing of Roger Stone and other controversies that have emerged in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Nadler and the Democrats on […]
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The Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment Wednesday, marking the inevitable and historic end to a bitterly fought, divisive impeachment trial that will reverberate into the 2020 election and shape Trump’s presidential legacy. But the final day of the Senate’s impeachment trial was not without suspense: Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah […]
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Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat facing an uphill reelection battle in 2020, said Wednesday morning he will vote to convict President Donald Trump on both articles of impeachment. Jones was one of a handful of senators whose vote was still in question on the verdict of Trump’s impeachment trial, which will come to an […]
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer both made clear Tuesday that censuring President Donald Trump, as some prominent Democrats have suggested, is not on the table. “We have impeached the President,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, said to a group of reporters in advance of the President’s State of the Union address. “Our […]
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Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday publicly refused to read a question from Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky during the Senate impeachment trial that named the alleged Ukraine whistleblower. “The presiding officer declines to read the question as submitted,” Roberts said after receiving the question card. Paul had expressed frustration with Republican leadership during the trial […]
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A member of President Donald Trump’s legal team argued on the Senate floor Wednesday that a politician trying to win reelection is acting in the national interest, and therefore a quid pro quo aimed at boosting reelection chances cannot be impeachable. Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus and high-profile defense attorney, argued that Trump cannot be impeached […]
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday tore into his former national security adviser John Bolton, whose explosive allegation in the Ukraine scandal has opened the door for GOP support of potential witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial. Bolton, according to a draft manuscript first reported by The New York Times earlier this week, alleges that Trump told him over the […]
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Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said Monday that he has had discussions with his GOP colleagues and it is “increasingly likely” that others would join his ongoing push for former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. “I’ve said for some time that I would hope to hear from […]
