Power Up: Republican rift widens over Trump impeachment Jacqueline Alemany On the Hill
HERE WE GO AGAIN: House lawmakers will tonight deliver to the Senate a single article of impeachment against former president Donald Trump, alleging “incitement of insurrection” in a trial set to start Feb. 9. The delay may help President Biden confirm some of his Cabinet nominees.
But it s also exposing a widening rift in the Republican Party that Trump still controls in absentia from his Mar-a-Lago country club.
Shot: “It is pretty clear that over the last year, there has been an effort to corrupt the election in the United States, and it was not by President Biden, it was by President Trump,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), the only GOP senator to support convicting Trump the first time, said Sunday.
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The FBI warned that all 50 state capitals could be sites of armed protests this weekend.
We check in on Columbus and Frankfort with Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau Chief Karen Kasler and reporter Jo Ingles, and Lexington Herald-Leader reporter Daniel Desrochers.
Locally, Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld - under federal indictment for an alleged pay-to-play development scheme, for which he maintains his innocence - saw his defense team argue this week that federal investigators made false statements in public about the case.
We talk about what that means and where the case stands with
Cincinnati Edition Assistant Producer Nick Swartsell.
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As we have previously noted, the Kentucky General Assembly is trying to limit Governor Andy Beshear’s (D-KY) ’emergency’ executive powers, and the Governor is somewhat annoyed:
By Jack Brammer and Daniel Desrochers | January 8, 2021 | 3:22 PM EST | Updated 4:31 PM EST
Kentucky Republican lawmakers ignored cries of overreach from their Democratic colleagues Friday and approved in committee two major bills challenging Gov. Andy Beshear’s emergency orders to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
Separately, another committee did not act on a bill that would reshape the state’s courts system after Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. railed against it.