A liberal arts school in Vermont revoked an honorary degree it awarded to Rudy Giuliani over the role the president’s personal attorney played in last week’s violent Capitol Hill uprising.
A liberal arts school in Vermont revoked an honorary degree it awarded to Rudy Giuliani over the role the president’s personal attorney played in last week’s violent Capitol Hill uprising. “Middlebury College has made the decision to revoke the honorary degree it presented to presidential attorney Rudolph Giuliani in 2005, and has communicated this to Mr. Giuliani’s office,” the school said in .
Lieu Co-authors Article of Impeachment Charging Trump with Incitement of Insurrection
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), David Cicilline (D-R.I.), and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) introduced an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Jan. 11.
Rep. Ted Lieu
The impeachment resolution is sponsored by Cicilline, with Lieu and Raskin serving as the two lead co-sponsors. It is also co-sponsored by another 211 members of the House.
The article of impeachment charges the outgoing president with a count of “incitement of insurrection” for his actions on Jan. 6, when he delivered a speech inciting his supporters to lay siege to the U.S. Capitol, an action that temporarily halted the counting of Electoral College votes and resulted in the deaths of five individuals, including an officer of the U.S. Capitol Police.
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Prominent lawyers who helped fuel Donald Trumpâs baseless charges of election fraud to try and thwart Joe Bidenâs win, are now facing potentially serious legal and financial problems of their own tied to their aggressive echoing of Trumpâs false election claims, say former Department of Justice lawyers and legal experts.
They include a federal investigation into the Capitol attack by a pro-Trump mob, possible disbarment and a defamation lawsuit.
Trumpâs personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who led Trumpâs conspiratorial drive to overturn the election and gave an incendiary talk to the Trump rally right before the march on the Capitol began, could be ensnared in a federal investigation of the attack and is facing a disbarment complaint in New York.