Facebook, Lyft and DoorDash announced Wednesday that they will no longer be donating to the Republican Attorneys General Association after reports that the group helped organize robocalls urging protesters to descend on the Capitol on Jan. 6, when a violent mob attacked the building.
Popular Information, a newsletter by Judd Legum, which first reported the decision by the three companies, added that The University of Phoenix is demanding a refund from the group to the tune of $50,000 that it donated in 2020.
The prosecutors association and its fundraising arm, the Rule of Law Defense Fund, paid for the robocalls to go out the day before the riots that killed five people including a Capitol police officer.
Following US Capitol attack, we senators must investigate fellow members of Congress â and follow the money
We need to understand what took place that day. We need to understand who was behind the tide of disinformation that led to the insurrection, and we need to understand who orchestrated the deadly actions that took place.
By Sheldon WhitehouseUpdated January 27, 2021, 10:04 a.m.
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Senator Ted Cruz, wearing a face mask that reads Come and Take It, arrives at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the US Capitol on Jan. 20.Drew Angerer/Getty
My first signal that things were seriously awry was when Capitol Police officers brought a badly shaken colleague to shelter in my Capitol hideaway. âTheyâre in the building,â she said. Shortly after, I was evacuated as the United States of America lost control of its Capitol to a violent pro-Trump mob intent on stopping the constitutional process of certifying the presiden
Corporate funding has contributed to the degrading of our democracy. In many cases it conflicts with professed company stances, eroding public support for business.
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A group of “concerned Kentucky citizens,” including three grand jurors from Breonna Taylor’s case, announced a petition to impeach special prosecutor and state Attorney General Daniel Cameron on Friday. Jurors accuse Cameron of “abuse of office and breach of duties of professional responsibility and ethics” and “misrepresenting to the nation the findings of the grand jury.”
In a September press conference, Cameron told the public that “the grand jury had every piece of detail needed to make their assessment and their judgments” on the charges for former Louisville police officer Brett Hankinson. Shortly after, an anonymous juror filed a motion asking Cameron to release a transcript of the grand jury proceedings, claiming he had misrepresented his handling of the case. Cameron later clarified that he had only presented the grand jury with information about the wanton endangerment charges that Hankinson received, a choice that received c