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Trump White House Pressured DOJ to Investigate Baseless Claims of Election Fraud
“Michigan cannot certify” its election results, demanded one email from the Trump White House to the Justice Department.
McConnell Says He’ll Block SCOTUS Nominations If GOP Regains the Senate in 2022
The senator said blocking Obama’s nominee in 2016 was the “most consequential thing” he did as Senate majority leader.
In His Wild Bid to Stop Leaks to the Press, Trump Even Spied on His Own Lawyer
Reports of the Trump administration running its own version of Nixon’s “White House Plumbers” landed with a boom.
AOC Says Senate Democrats Are Blocking Their Own Party’s Agenda
“It's worth going it alone if we can do more for working people in this country,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Pelosi Doubts Barr’s Claims That He Didn’t Know of Schiff, Swalwell Subpoenas
“To say that they didn't know anything about it is beyond belief,” the Speaker of the House said on Sunday.
Seasoned Auditors Challenge Arizona Senate to Let Them Confirm 2020 Results
The auditors are seeking to confront and upstage the pro-Trump contractors who have been hired by the Arizona Senate.
North Carolina Moves Ahead With Legislative Assault on Absentee Ballots
Had the measure been in place last year, tens of thousands of applications and ballots would have been rejected.
“Climate Denial Masquerading as Bipartisanship”: Markey Pans Centrist Plan
A centrist group of senators reached an infrastructure agreement on Thursday that will largely sideline the climate.
GOP Oregon Lawmaker Expelled for Letting Far Right Extremists Into Capitol
GOP Rep. Mike Nearman was expelled in a bipartisan vote of 59-1 on Thursday.
Obsessed With Leaks, Trump’s DOJ Covertly Seized Dem Lawmakers’ Phone Data
The “politicization” of Trump's Department of Justice “is harrowing,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said.