Politics live updates: House members deliver Trump impeachment charge to Senate for trial Matthew Brown, David Jackson, Caren Bohan and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
House sends Senate second Trump impeachment for gravely endangering security of U.S.
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House prosecutors walked the article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday night, setting the stage for a trial to begin Feb. 9.
Nine House members led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., will serve as prosecutors, who are called managers, in the trial.
House Democrats were joined by 10 Republicans in voting Jan. 13 to charge Trump with inciting insurrection at the Capitol a week earlier after a riot left five people dead. A violent mob smashed windows and doors while storming the building and occupying offices, including the Senate chamber, where the trial will be held.
Court filings last week gives me the answer to my question that new
Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Barbara Webb declined to answer:
Webb doesn’t intend to recuse from cases in which a party is
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who recently hired her husband
Doyle Webb at $150,000 to be director of the office’s work on legislative redistricting. The last attorney general used existing staff and brought in no one else to work on apportionment.
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Here’s one of three identical filings by Webb last week in cases in which the attorney general’s office was a party:
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The Rutledge Report, Part II: Her record, including her ties to Donald Trump
January 24, 20219:58 am
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge continues to add chapters to the book of her public record, generally lamentable particularly in her devotion to
Donald Trump.
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The latest chapter, as I mentioned earlier, is an outlay of what likely will exceed a quarter of a million dollars in public money on partisan assistance in redistricting that could have been done at no additional cost by her existing staff.
The event prompts me to share something I’d been holding in reserve.
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For your Sunday reading, a summary of the span of Rutledge’s Arkansas political career. It includes the unconstitutional public spending, for which repayments are now being sought court, to prevent the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
January 24, 20219:20 am
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s use of public money to provide plump featherbeds for Republican insiders.
As we’d reported previously, former
GOP Party Chair Doyle Webb got the biggest public teat $150,000 a year as “staff director” of Rutledge’s one-third share of the board that oversees legislative apportionment. Former Republican legislators
Andy Davis and
Doug House are suckling on the state nozzle at $6,666 a month to work on the same project.
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Wickline’s article provided some useful history. Ten years ago, when the board of apportionment last redrew district lines following a Census (the count hasn’t been completed this year but Rutledge’s triumvirate are already hungrily sucking down state dollars), neither Democratic
Troopergate: A belated limited hangout on the Arkansas state troopers at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6
The
Arkansas State Police provided to me at 6:03 p.m. today an additional statement to my continuing questions about the two troopers who participated in the
Trump rally in Washington on June 6 that ended in the deadly insurrection riot at the Capitol.
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It confirms, without directly saying so, that Governor Hutchinson’s statement that the troopers did NOT go to the Capitol from the rally was incorrect. Beyond that, not much. The statement:
Two Arkansas State Troopers who were off-duty and on annual leave travelled to Washington D.C. to hear a January 6, 2021 speech by President Donald Trump. The two troopers were interviewed by their supervisory commanders regarding the Washington D.C. trip. Additionally, Colonel Bill Bryant conducted an internal review of their activities.