Section: AlterNet (USA)
Nancy Pelosi makes an impassioned demand for Trump’s removal: ‘Defeated, impeached — gone’
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a news conference on Thursday — the day after a violent mob of far-right extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol Building — she made it abundantly clear that she held him responsible. And the California Democrat made a passionate and emotional plea for him to be removed from office.”Yesterday, the president...
House drafts new articles of impeachment against Trump following attack on US Capitol Building
Following the storming of the U.S. Capitol Building by a violent mob of Trump supporters on January 6, articles of impeachment have been drawn against President Donald Trump by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives — and if the articles are officially passed by the House, it will mark the first time in U.S. history that a president has...
Here’s why Republicans have to pay a price for supporting Trump’s coup
On Tuesday morning, Republicans in Pennsylvania refused to seat a Democratic state senator because his Republican opponent would not concede. The vote has been counted. It’s been recounted. It’s been certified. It’s stood up to numerous court challenges. Still, Republicans decided to leave the citizens of the 45th district...
Election law expert breaks down the legal case for impeaching Trump over call to Georgia Secretary of State
President Donald Trump’s latest desperate plea to overturn the presidential election has led one American scholar to lay out the legal case against the president over his call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. In an article for Slate, Richard Hasen, an American legal scholar and election law expert, explained how Trump...
From profiles in courage to profiles in sore losing: The GOP’s open sedition and clumsy coup is a crime
Ever since it first was published in 1956, there has been a joke about John F. Kennedy’s book Profiles in Courage (largely ghosted by speechwriter and advisor Ted Sorensen), historical portraits of eight US senators who demonstrated bravery in the face of enormous political opposition.Kennedy himself and others kidded that the volume would...
Susan Collins refuted: Trump never learned his lesson
One of the most soul-taxing aspects of the Donald Trump era is how much it’s like living in a political version of “Groundhog Day.” We endure variations of the same handful of scandals over and over again until we’re numb and unable to tell what happened one day from the next. The result is a weird time dilation, where the...
Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump now have competing visions for the GOP’s future: political journalist
Throughout most of Donald Trump’s presidency, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was a Trump enabler — siding with the president on everything from the Ukraine scandal to Supreme Court nominees to corporate tax cuts for the ultra-rich. But with Trump having been voted out of office, McConnell is now acknowledging Joe Biden as...
Trump’s foreign policy was disastrously impulsive — it’s time for some idealism
In a recent (December 20) Washington Post Outlook commentary, journalist Robert Wright voices the article’s title: “Biden’s team of idealists will keep getting people killed.” What’s noteworthy about this apologia is its perpetuation of tired tropes that have been with us throughout modern memory about idealists and...
Here are 5 events that made 2020 one of the most chaotic years in modern US history
2020 will go down in history as one of the most chaotic, disturbing years in United States history. The Trump era in general has been tumultuous; President Donald Trump thrives on chaos, and he was facing two articles of impeachment — one for abuse of power, the other for obstruction of Congress — when 2020 started. But Trump’s impeachment...
These two 2020 Wall Street Journal op-eds by Trump insiders were borderline treasonous in retrospect
Every editorial page has misfires over the course of a year, but the Wall Street Journal really set itself apart this year as not only publishing its usual reality adjacent pieces, but actually managing to gaslight Americans in advance on two of the biggest betrayals of the year. Sure, there was conservative columnist Peggy Noonan spouting off...
