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Attorneys for a Gravette man charged in the U.S. Capitol riot have asked that his January trial be postponed by two months or that a superseding indictment

Attorneys for a Gravette man charged in the U.S. Capitol riot have asked that his January trial be postponed by two months or that a superseding indictment filed Dec. 21 be dismissed.

3 U.S.C. Chap. 1: Complete Federal Law governing the election of a President and Vice-President and filling of vacancies of the same

Well, it’s over. The Jan. 6 committee has wrapped up its investigation and published its findings online for reporters to comb through right before the holidays.

In his coup scheme, Trump tried to exploit ambiguities in the Electoral Count Act. Congress strengthened democracy today by reforming the 135-year-old law.

As Congress prepares to reform the Electoral Count Act, Donald Trump sees the effort itself as vindication. That's ridiculous.

 

If there's some red line that Trump could cross, some depth he could stoop to in words or action, that would cost him the support of North Dakota's delegation, he doesn't seem to have crossed it yet.

When John Quincy Adams was informed by a committee that he was elected president by the House of Representatives, for the first and only time through the procedure set by the Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution, he responded in writing. “The answer was not very gracious,” writes historian George Dangerfield. “If it were possible, wrote Mr. Adams, by declining the office to cause an immediate election that would bring about a clearer result, he would gladly do so. But since this was not C...

If there's some red line that Trump could cross, some depth he could stoop to in words or action, that would cost him the support of North Dakota's delegation, he doesn't seem to have crossed it yet.