Adam KlasfeldJan 13th, 2021, 11:02 am
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md, talks with Rep. Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican who backs the Democrats’ efforts to remove outgoing President Donald Trump from officer for allegedly inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6.
The United States is in mourning. More than 381,000 of its people succumbed to the coronavirus. Five died in the U.S. Capitol insurrection, and premature obituaries have been written time and again for the country’s democracy, under unprecedented assault by an outgoing president and much of his party.
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Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat absorbing the pain of the nation, is grieving more than most. He lost his son to suicide on the day of New Year’s Eve, posted a heartbreaking elegy to him on Jan. 4, and just two days later, showed up to work at a U.S. Capitol besieged by insurrectionists who killed a police officer, ransacked the building and menaced members forced to hide in cramped and sealed rooms.
U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland was named lead manager for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday night in a news release.
About That Presidential Medal of Freedom: Revisiting the Nunes Memo
Devin Nunes speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2018. (Gage Skidmore, https://flic.kr/p/F7VaXi; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
President Trump last week awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to, of all people, Rep. Devin Nunes. Nunes is the ranking Republican member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and among Congress’s most prolific and consequential conspiracy theorists. In announcing the award on Jan. 4, the president declared that Nunes had “unearth[ed] the crime of the century,” referring to Nunes’s investigations into alleged misconduct by the Obama administration during the 2016 election. As part of this investigation the animating principle behind the award the announcement reads, Nunes “learned that the Obama-Biden administration had issued Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants to spy on President Trum
From the National File:
EXCLUSIVE: Constitutional Attorney Says Pence, Congress, Violated Constitution, Trump Can Use EAS To Circumvent Censorship There is an insurrection going on inside of the entire government, funded, supported and fomented by foreign actors, said Attorney Ivan Raiklin.
Speaking exclusively with National File on January 7, Constitutional Attorney Ivan Raiklin explained that President Donald Trump’s “only option” to defend the Constitution is to “activate the Emergency Alert System.” This comes as Big Tech companies have banned President Trump and many of his supporters from using their platforms just days after Congress certified the fraudulent Electoral College results on January 6.