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New Year’s Day is supposed to herald new beginnings, new possibilities, new hopes for all Americans of whatever political stripe. But if the author of an opinion article published in the
Hill in the early hours of 2021 has his way, before long, our country will be back trudging to the beat of the establishment GOP’s drum, because he revealed all Americans need right now is Barack Obama in charge of the Department of Justice. And that’s just the beginning of this guy’s bad ideas, apparently.
Douglas Kmiec, who works as professor emeritus of constitutional law at Pepperdine University School of Law and once worked in the Office of Legal Counsel for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, according to his bio, starts by writing that he doesn’t get why these congressmen and senators are causing a fuss about the Electoral College certification, which I wrote about earlier tonight.
Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets Saturday night and demanded all U.S. troops exit their country, declaring that "America is the great Satan" and marking the one-year anniversary of an airstrike that killed top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Faced with a budget shortfall, the Indian Health Service reduced a federally funded hospital in New Mexico to a clinic as coronavirus cases continued to rise in the state.
Mr. DeWine lauded his state’s mail-in voting regime.
“We have verification,” the governor said. “Ohio sets a very high bar and … that should be the bar across the country.”
President Trump beat Mr. Biden in Ohio by a margin of 53% to 45% of the vote.
The margins were much closer in the states contested by Mr. Trump, including Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, where mail-in ballots often played a decisive role in the outcome.
“We have a lot of people in this country who are very concerned,” said Mr. DeWine.
CNN host Jake Tapper argued that voters were concerned about election fraud because “they’ve been lied to by President Trump for weeks.”
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