Pa. congressman suggests censuring Trump to colleagues divided on impeaching him PennLive.com 1/13/2021 Charles Thompson, pennlive.com
When the U.S. House of Representatives votes on an unprecedented second impeachment of President Donald J. Trump Wednesday evening, for Pennsylvania voters it may feel a little like deja vu all over again.
With one wild card.
Pennsylvania’s nine House Democrats appeared ready to roll the vote, with all nine having voiced support this week for the impeachment of Trump for “inciting violence against the government of the United States” in his speech to supporters and other protestors who turned out Jan 6 for a last-gasp protest of the election results.
Thousands of rioters — encouraged by President Trump — violently stormed the U.S. Capitol. Five Americans are dead and many thousands more will now live with the post-traumatic stress from
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Congress convened Wednesday to perform the largely ceremonial counting of Electoral College votes and to declare Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump countered with a rally that he had been planning for weeks. “Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
“Let’s have trial by combat,” Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s disgraced personal lawyer, crowed from the rally podium. “Stand up and fight!” Trump’s son Don Jr. shouted, as he threatened Congressional Republicans unwilling to support overturning Biden’s election, “We’re coming for you and we’re going to have a good time doing it.”
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 How to defeat the hard right: Some thoughts on the Capitol attack and building a more democratic nation Posted By Jason Pramas on Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 8:59 AM click to enlarge Shutterstock A pro-Trump mob overruns barricades at the U.S. Capitol during last Wednesday s insurrection.
The attack on the Capitol last week by racist and fascist organizations of the hard right with QAnon and election conspiracy boosters in tow was an assault on democracy itself to be sure. The role of President Donald Trump and his many Republican allies in Congress, notably Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, in fomenting that attack was quite clear. Laws already on the books were broken by all and sundry. The perpetrators at al