Month: January 2021

Sen. Rand Paul and ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday got into a fiery exchange over President Joe Biden winning the 2020 presidential election — with the Republican lawmaker claiming there were “two sides” to every story. The tense interview on “This Week” started out with Stephanopoulos asking Paul if he accepts that the election was …

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Approximately 5,000 National Guard troops will remain in the District through mid-March, officials said Sunday. “As we continue to work to meet the final post-inauguration requirements, the National Guard has been requested to continue supporting federal law enforcement agencies with 7,000 members and will draw down to 5,000 through mid-March. We are providing assistance such …

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When it came to President Trump, every newspaper and media outlet in the country did everything they could to make him appear to be a “liar” by keeping a record of his “false statements”. The Washington Post even had a dedicated spot on their website that would track everything he said that deemed to be …

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A proposal to add four to six new judges to Virginia’s Court of Appeals is drawing protests and charges of “court packing” from some Republicans. Democrats say the additional judges are needed to give criminal defendants and civil litigants an automatic right of appeal. But Republicans say adding four to six new judges at once …

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Chief Justice John Roberts will not preside over Trump’s Senate impeachment trial. If was previously reported that Roberts was eager to avoid presiding over the sham impeachment of Trump because he doesn’t want to become a political lightning rod. Senate President Pro Tempore, Pat Leahy (VT) will preside over the sham trial instead. A spokesman for Leahy …

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday announced an additional $20.7 million in COVID-19 relief funding for education as school systems work to get students safely back into classrooms. “In addition to proposing a budget that funds education across the board at record levels, we are working to get federal COVID-19 relief funding out to schools and …

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During a Sunday appearance on New York WABC 770 AM radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz weighed in on the push to disbar former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. The calls to investigate and disbar the former New York City mayor are in response to Giuliani’s claims of voter …

Dershowitz: Calls to Disbar Giuliani ‘McCarthyism’ — ‘I Would Defend Him to the Depths of My Being’ Read More »

Joe Biden on Monday reversed a Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from joining the US military, dumping a ban ordered by Donald Trump in a tweet during his first year in office. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) greeted the move as “an incredible victory” in the fight for transgender rights. The president had …

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Trump administration press secretary and the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, on Monday announced her bid for the Arkansas governorship. Sanders made the announcement Monday morning via a video posted to her twitter page. I'm in —> https://t.co/8bmfl3ZPgp Watch ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/khDPEk0orU — Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) January 25, 2021

Incoming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has suggested taxing Americans for the number of miles they drive, a policy he endorsed as a Democratic presidential candidate. The Biden Administration is actively searching for ways to fund its ambitious $1 trillion infrastructure plan. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., acknowledged “privacy concerns” related to implementing a vehicle miles traveled …

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