Police Investigating Whether Lawmakers Gave Rioters Tour of Capitol Before Siege
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March 24, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ETMarch 24, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET
The Capitol Police are looking into whether members of Congress inappropriately gave visitors access to the Capitol ahead of last week’s assault. Vice President Mike Pence called Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to offer assistance.
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Pelosi: Security Requires ‘Truth and Trust’
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that if any House members had acted as accomplices to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, they would face consequences.
When we’re talking about security, we have to talk about truth and trust. In order to serve here with each other, we must trust that people have respect for their oath of office, respect for this institution. We must trust each other. If, in fact, it is found that members of Congress were accomplices to this insurrection, if they aided and abetted the crime,
Facebook bars events close to the Biden inauguration, state capitols
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Facebook is taking steps to avoid a repeat of what happened on Jan. 6.
When Donald Trump supporters gathered in Washington, D.C. for a mass gathering that eventually ended in the sacking of the U.S. Capitol, many of the groups that attended used social media platforms like Facebook and Parler to organize. Now, ahead of President-elect Joseph R. Biden s Jan. 20 inauguration, Facebook is pulling the plug on events. We are blocking the creation of any new Facebook events happening in close proximity to locations including the White House, the US Capitol building and any of the state capitol buildings through Inauguration Day, the social network wrote in a Friday update to its post covering Jan. 20 preparations.Â
Friday, January 15, 2021
mpeachment. Take Two.
On January 13, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump on one count of “incitement of insurrection” by a vote of 232–197 (10 Republicans voted to impeach and 4 did not cast votes). He is the first president to have been impeached twice.
Because President Trump has only four full days left in office, what happens next is a bit unclear. First, there is some legal debate as to whether the United States Constitution’s impeachment process allows for conviction after a president leaves office. Second, and perhaps more importantly for the
Buzz, because the impeachment trial likely won’t start in the U.S. Senate until sometime next week, it will surely impact President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s agenda, especially during Biden’s crucial first 100 days in office. (The previous presidential impeachment trials lasted 21 days, 37 days, and 83 days, respectively.)