Impeachment

Leaders of the Alaska Republican Party endorsed Kelly Tshibaka on Saturday in her race against Senator Lisa Murskowski of Alaska, giving its support to an outsider candidate who encouraged former President Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud. The Alaska Republican State Central Committee confirmed Tshibaka's endorsement to Newsweek, saying…

What made Bill Barr such a bad attorney general? The question is of more than historical interest, as pundits have begun to grapple with the state of the Justice Department he left behind. Barr’s legacy is difficult to ignore—not least since his successor, Merrick Garland, has shown few signs of…

In 2005, Bill Cosby and Bruce Castor—supposedly—struck a deal. At that point in pop culture history, Cosby was still the beloved creator of Cliff Huxtable and famous for his influential standup; he was also trying to leverage his reputation as America’s TV Dad into the persona of a professional public…

WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - Some of former President Donald Trump's most prominent critics, including Republican Representative Liz Cheney and the Democrats who led the two impeachments against him, were named on Thursday to serve on a special congressional panel probing the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. House…

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) blasted former President Donald Trump for continuing to peddle the big lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, likening the ex-president’s rhetoric to professional wrestling while noting that nothing Trump says is “real.” Over the weekend, Trump launched a new rally tour aimed at punishing…

Trump’s supporters at one stage chanted “Lock her up” at the mention of Hillary Clinton Source: Tony Dejak via PA Images DONALD TRUMP REPRISED his election grievances and baseless claims of fraud as he returned to the rally stage yesterday for his first campaign-style event since leaving the White House.…

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail with a rally in Ohio on Saturday night, campaigning against a Republican who voted for his impeachment and trailing his own candidacy for president in 2024. Trump repeated his baseless election 2020 grievances and painted a dystopian picture of the country under Democratic…

WELLINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Former President Donald Trump reprised his election grievances and baseless claims of fraud as he returned to the rally stage Saturday, holding his first campaign-style event since leaving the White House. “This was the scam of the century and this was the crime of the century,”…

A lawyer who defended former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial where he called the Jan. 6 Capitol assault "heinous" is now defending a Florida man who has been charged in connection with the riot, the Associated Press reported. This week, attorney Michael van der Veen of Philadelphia,…

The average consumer of political news can be forgiven for not being entirely sure how much to panic about the state of our democracy. On the one hand, one can read in the mainstream press that “more than 100 scholars of democracy have signed a new public statement” warning that…