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A new messaging memo from the Senate Republican Conference to its members communications teams frames President Joe Bidens American Jobs Plan as a "job-crushing slush fund." p According to a href "https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/04/12/scoop-cindy-mccain-set-to-land-biden-ambassadorship-492440" rel "noopener noreferrer" target "_blank" em Politico /em /a , the memo, dated April 11, dismisses the $2.25 trillion infrastructure package as a "partisan plan to kill jobs and cre...

The impeachment managers and their advisers have scoured social media sites as they seek to build a case that the former president incited his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol.

Senators sworn-in, reject bid to dismiss Trump impeachment trial UPDATE: WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Senate has rejected a Republican attempt to dismiss Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial, a vote that allows the case on “incitement of insurrection” to move forward but also foreshadows that there may not be enough votes to convict him. The procedural vote to set aside an objection from Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul puts the Senate on record as declaring the proceedings constitution...

Senators sworn in for Trump impeachment trial Senators were sworn in for the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amid an immediate challenge to the constitutionality of the trial from a Republican ally of the former President. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky forced a procedural vote on the constitutionality of the trial Tuesday afternoon, in what amounted to the first test of how Senate Republicans view the upcoming trial, the substance of which will begin with argum...

McConnell delaying Trumps Senate impeachment trial was a gift for Democrats The rest of the trial’s structure still needs to be worked out, but at least now we won’t have to waste time debating the alleged unfairness of the process. Then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., blows a kiss to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as he and Sen. Mitch McConnell arrive for a joint session to certify the 2020 election results Jan. 6, 2021. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Jan. 25, 2021, 9:52 PM UTC This ti...

Trumps pardons may be poorly worded enough to leave some people on the hook jshamsian@insider.com (Jacob Shamsian) © Provided by Business Insider President Donald Trump gives a presidential pardon to the National Thanksgiving Turkey Butter in the Rose Garden of the White House November 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. While Butter may be safe, Paul Manafort still faces risks, experts say. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trumps pardons leave some of their subjects open to a...

President Trumps pardons leave some of their subjects open to additional prosecution, experts say. His former campaign chair Paul Manafort could still be prosecuted for specific crimes he wasnt pardoned for. Even Michael Flynn, who received a wider-ranging pardon, could still have it tested by courts. On his way out of office, President Donald Trump issued more than 100 pardons, mostly to his personal friends and political allies. A number of those pardons were for people convicted of federal c...

Joe Biden’s determination to combat the “rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat,” elucidated in his inaugural speech, is not only a necessary idea but one that is long overdue at the presidential level. It’s also important that he not do it wrong. However, the early indications emanating from inside the new Biden White House suggest that he could end up doing so—particularly by trying to replicate the “War on T...

Each Side Refuses To Blink on JCPOA; Cabinet Nominees Largely Stick to Scripts  Both Admins Still Affirming Desire to Return, But No Clarity on First Moves  Less than a few hours after Joe Biden was inaugurated, his team was questioned on the prospects of the U.S. returning the JCPOA, setting up an indirect back and forth between the two governments on who should take the first steps to initiate a return.  President Biden spoke very lightly on foreign policy in his inaugural address, but oth...

This Week’s Highlights A very useful step for Moscow and Washington would be to revive the practice of convening bi-annual U.S.-Russian meetings at the assistant/under-secretary or deputy foreign minister level, suggest Prof. William C. Potter, founding director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and Anton Khlopkov, founding director of the Center for Energy and Security Studies in Moscow. They also note that it would be worthwhile to resurrect a number of the arms cont...