Posted by Scott Lucas | Feb 1, 2021 |
UPDATE, FEB 1: Donald Trump has named David Schoen and Bruce Castor as his new attorneys for his impeachment trial, after his five-member defense team resigned over the weekend.
Trump announced the appointments on Sunday evening.
Marc Elias, a specialist in election law, noted that Schoen and Castor were arguing against Trump’s “stolen election” claims only a few months ago.
It appears that Trump s new impeachment lawyer s firm sued Trump and the US Postal Service.
In their lawsuit, they noted that Trump has made repeated claims that voting by mail is ripe with fraud despite having no evidence in support of those claims. pic.twitter.com/zRSE7acO3Q
February 1, 2021
Small caps have been having a strong run over the past few months, with the Russell 2000 index up almost 35% within that time frame. This is carrying over into 2021, with three small cap funds from ETF provider Invesco seeing strong gains.
Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF (PSCD): offers exposure to the consumer discretionary sector of the U.S. economy, making PSCD one of many options available for accessing a sector that includes restaurants, automakers, and retailers. Given the sector-specific focus of PSCD, this fund might have tremendous appeal to those building a long-term, buy-and-hold portfolio. Many PSCD holdings are already included in small cap equity funds.
Capitol Attack: Defense Secretary Miller Restricted National Guard 2 Days Earlier
Posted by Scott Lucas | Feb 1, 2021 |
Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller restricted the National Guards’ ability to contain violence, two days before the January 6 attack by Donald Trump’s followers on the US Capitol.
Despite warnings that “militia groups and white supremacist organizations” would be among the Trump supporters, and that “some of these participants were intending to bring firearms and other weapons to the event” with a “strong potential for violence”, Miller send a memo to the Army Secretary with the limits on the Guard: No arrests No “riot control agents”
Reunited families separated again, a challenge for Biden task force washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Separated at the border, reunited, then separated again: For migrant families, another trauma Kevin Sieff EL PROGRESO, Honduras Thirty days after they were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, held on opposite sides of the United States, Antonio and Maily were reunited at midnight in the parking lot of a South Texas detention center. Antonio looked at his 7-year-old daughter and thought: “They are returning all of my happiness in a single moment.” Agents and social workers watched as they hugged. It was July 2018 days after the Trump administration’s family separations policy was halted. The reunion seemed permanent, a bookend to the most controversial U.S. immigration directive in decades.