Why Mitch McConnell and Republicans are letting Donald Trump off the hook on impeachment Scott Jennings, Opinion contributor
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Let me take a crack at helping you understand how and why Senate Republicans landed where they did on Jan. 27, the day Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul forced a floor vote on a simple question: Is an impeachment trial of Donald Trump, now former president, constitutional?
Paul’s position that Trump cannot be tried since he’s out of office attracted 45 of the 50 Republican senators, including Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader. Paul’s gambit confirmed Trump will not be convicted, despite the horrific events of Jan. 6 (and others leading up to them) in which Trump obviously played a central role.
After his election win over Donald Trump, President Joe Biden asked the justices to not weigh in on policies he plans to roll back.
Then-President Donald Trump tours a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Alamo, Texas, on Jan. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON (CN) The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a request from the Biden administration to drop two Trump-era immigration cases from this month’s argument calendar because the policies at issue are likely to be rescinded.
“In light of these recent developments, petitioners respectfully request that the court hold further briefing in abeyance and remove this case from the February 2021 argument calendar,” wrote Elizabeth B. Prelogar, the Justice Department’s acting solicitor general, in two nearly identical motions for abeyance filed Monday evening.
WASHINGTON ― Then-President Donald Trump raised $76 million for a political slush fund by citing the need to challenge his Nov. 3 reelection loss and for Republicans to win two Senate runoffs in Georgia, but through the end of 2020 he did not spend a dime of it on either. “He put nothing back. He didn’t care,” said one top Republican familiar with the fundraising operation who spoke on condition of anonymity, adding that Trump intends to use the.