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![Michael Horowitz, inspector general for the Justice Department, returns for testimony following a short break before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on December 11, 2019. in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2021_0125-horowitz-400x300.jpg)
Inquiry Opened to Determine If DOJ Officials Tried to Overturn Election
The investigation comes about after reports of one DOJ lawyer loyal to Trump allegedly devised such a scheme.
![Sen. Bernie Sanders walks through Capitol Hill on December 31, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2021_0125-bernie-sanders--400x300.jpg)
Sanders Wants to “Act Now” on COVID Relief But McConnell Is Holding Up Senate
Bernie Sanders said one of his priorities is to pass a COVID relief bill before the impeachment trial starts next month.
![Flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, President Joe Biden signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on January 25, 2021 in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2021_0125-biden-sign-400x300.jpg)
Biden Executive Order Ends Transgender Military Ban Established by Trump
The order will also seek to correct the records of service members who were adversely affected by the previous ban.
![The back of Donald Trump's head](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/01/2021_0125-donald-trump-400x300.jpg)
Trump Has Made Threats to Launch a New Political Party — the “Patriot Party”
If Senate Republicans vote to convict Trump, he may try to shatter the GOP by starting a third party.
![Then-Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell speaks at a podium](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/01/2021_0125-trump-lawyer-400x300.jpg)
Former Trump Lawyer and Conspiracy Theorist Sidney Powell Launches New Super PAC
Powell faces a $1.3 billion defamation suit over her false claims of voter fraud.
![A Virgina Mason advanced registered nurse practitioner holds up a sign and a flag asking for another patient to dose with the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine as well as a refill during a partnership with the hospital network and Amazon at the Amazon Meeting Center in downtown Seattle, Washington, on January 24, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2021_0125-covid-vaccine-w-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Vaccine Distribution Plan Has Left Millions of Doses Unaccounted For
Biden’s COVID task force says that, due to large discrepancies in vaccine data, millions of doses are missing.
![Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, lawyer for former president Donald Trump, stands next to a map showing the swing states during a news conference about lawsuits related to the presidential election results at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on November 19, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2021_0125-rudy-giuliani-400x300.jpg)
Dominion Voting Systems Files $1.3 Billion Lawsuit Against Rudy Giuliani
Scores of false claims of fraud against Dominion's voting machines have been spread across social media.
![A white man, inexplicably still alive after storming the U.S. capitol building, holds the flag of a defunct seditionist government](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/01/2021_0125-confederate-400x300.jpg)
Let’s Not Lose Ourselves in Euphoria Over Trump’s Exit. Anti-Blackness Persists.
An attack-free inauguration must not wipe our memory of the white supremacy that reared up on January 6 at the Capitol.
![Some lobbyists made massive sums attempting to secure clemency or pardons in the final months of Trump's presidency.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/01/GettyImages-1177396432-400x300.jpg)
Trump-Linked Lobbyists Made Big Money From Clients Seeking Last-Minute Pardons
Some lobbyists made massive sums attempting to secure clemency or pardons in the final months of Trump's presidency.
![Then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer listens as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill on December 20, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/03/2021_0122-schumer-pelosi-400x300.jpg)
Pelosi Is Sending the Impeachment Article to the Senate on Monday
The delivery triggers the beginning of proceedings, but McConnell and some Democrats want to push it back.