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Oregon U.S. Attorney Billy Williams will resign his post effective Feb. 28.
Williams, the top federal law enforcement officer in Oregon, took over as U.S. attorney in May 2015, during the Obama administration. He was later appointed to the seat by former President Donald Trump.
“On an all-U.S. Attorney call this morning, Acting Attorney General (Robert “Monty”) Wilkinson instructed most presidentially-appointed U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Attorney Williams included, to submit resignations effective February 28, 2021,” Oregon’s U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement Tuesday. “Our office is taking all necessary steps to ensure a smooth transition and will provide more information soon.”
“Show us the law!” they chanted.
“Let Grandma out!” one shouted.
They had descended on Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash., the evening of Jan. 29 to protest the quarantine of Gayle Meyer, a 74-year-old patient who had refused to take a test for the coronavirus.
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Police in riot gear guarded entrances as the activists who authorities said were armed insisted that Meyer was being held against her will, a claim the hospital denied.
Meyer’s 49-year-old daughter, Satin, an anti-mask activist licensed as her caregiver, had summoned the demonstrators, foot soldiers in a rapidly expanding network called People’s Rights. With the tap of a thumb on a smartphone, members can call a militia like they’d call an Uber and stage a protest within minutes.
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Senators gathered yesterday in Washington to begin
President Trump’s second impeachment trial.
For the record:
5:27 PM, Feb. 10, 2021A previous version of this newsletter said the network had filled Lou Dobbs’ slot on Fox Business with former Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow. The new program with Kudlow is not taking Dobbs’ time slot.
On one side are House impeachment managers, who are pressing the Senate to hold Trump accountable for “the most grievous constitutional crime ever committed by a president.” On the other are Trump’s lawyers, who argued it was “unconstitutional” to try a former president, criticizing the proceedings as “political theater.”
“Show us the law!” they chanted.
“Let Grandma out!” one shouted.
They had descended on Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash., the evening of Jan. 29 to protest the quarantine of Gayle Meyer, a 74-year-old patient who had refused to take a test for the coronavirus.
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Police in riot gear guarded entrances as the activists who authorities said were armed insisted that Meyer was being held against her will, a claim the hospital denied.
Meyer’s 49-year-old daughter, Satin, an anti-mask activist licensed as her caregiver, had summoned the demonstrators, foot soldiers in a rapidly expanding network called People’s Rights. With the tap of a thumb on a smartphone, members can call a militia like they’d call an Uber and stage a protest within minutes.
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Donald Trump faces his second impeachment trial, which his lawyers call a “brazen political act,” starting today.
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The second impeachment trial of
former President Trump will begin today with up to four hours of debate and a vote about whether the process itself is constitutional.
Lawyers for Trump have criticized the impeachment case, arguing that it is unconstitutional because Trump is no longer in office and deriding it as “political theater” in a 78-page brief filed Monday. Democrats are contending that Trump “willfully incited violent insurrection” to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, an act they call “the most grievous constitutional crime ever committed by a president.”