Law enforcement prepping for armed pro-Trump marches this weekend in Columbus: Capitol Letter
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
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Weekend plans: Ohio law-enforcement agencies are preparing for several pro-Trump protests this weekend in Columbus – particularly an armed demonstration outside the Ohio Statehouse on Sunday. As Jeremy Pelzer reports, Columbus is one of a handful of cities singled out in particular on social media and right-wing websites for protests against Democrat Joe Biden taking office.
Prizefighter: President Donald Trump made it official Monday that he was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Champaign County in a private ceremony, Sabrina Eaton reports. Jordan, a fiercely loyal Trump supporter, led unsuccessful congressional efforts to reject electoral votes from several states that backed Democratic President-elect Joe Biden in November’s election, pushing Trump’s false claims of widespread election f
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January 11, 2021 - 4:36pm
A state senator is demanding information on the Nebraska attorney general’s involvement with a group that encouraged last week’s march on the U.S. Capitol that turned violent, but the attorney general’s office says he was unaware of that activity. And senators introduced bills in the Legislature dealing with everything from meatpacking safety and government efficiency to doxing.
Republican AGs group leader quits over call pushing protest
By MEG KINNARDJanuary 12, 2021 GMT
FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2007, file photo, Adam Piper, one of only four full-time staffers for Mike Huckabee s presidential campaign in South Carolina, answers calls and returns emails from the state campaign headquarters in Columbia, S.C. Piper, the executive director of a national group that advocates for Republican attorneys general has resigned in the fallout of a robocall sent out by the association’s political arm urging people to march to the U.S. Capitol last week ahead of the violent assault that followed. The Republican Attorneys General Association and the Rule of Law Defense Fund accepted the voluntary resignation of Piper on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick, File)