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Murkowski ‘Disturbed’ By McConnell Vow To Coordinate Impeachment Trial With WH
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), a key swing vote when it comes to the impeachment process set to begin in the Senate next month, voiced her concerns this week about Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) promise to work in “total coordination” with the White House. “When I heard that I was disturbed,” Murkowski told the local NBC News...
Giuliani Says New York Prosecutors Are ‘A**holes’ If They’re Investigating Him
Rudy Giuliani had nothing nice to say about the prosecutors currently occupying his former stomping grounds at the Southern District of New York: “they’re assholes,” he told Olivia Nuzzi in a new New York Magazine profile published Monday. “If they’re investigating me, they’re assholes. They’re absolutely assholes if...
DOJ, House Weigh In On How Impeachment Affects Mueller Grand Jury Doc Case
The House Judiciary Committee said Monday that evidence from special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury materials could yield new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The possibility was floated in the case seeking disclosure of those materials, and the suggestion came hours after the committee made a similar claim in...
McConnell All But Declares There’ll Be No Movement On Impeachment Until After Holidays
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) signaled on Monday there would be no movement on impeachment until after Congress returns to session in January. Speaking to reporters in Kentucky, McConnell was tight-lipped about impeachment proceedings and how the Senate intends to handle the articles once they come over from the House, pointing...
House Floats Possibility Of More Impeachment Articles If It Gets McGahn’s Testimony
The House Judiciary Committee, still fighting in court for former White House counsel Don McGahn’s testimony, suggested Monday that it was considering articles of impeachment in addition to those adopted by the House last Wednesday. The suggestion came in a court filing requested by the appeals court considering the McGahn lawsuit. The...
Schumer Details Doc Demand For Senate Impeachment Trial
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) detailed which documents he’d like to see the administration produce for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial in a Monday letter to his fellow senators, and pointed specifically to the recent release of redacted Ukraine-related emails from the Office of Management and Budget. The letter comes...
How Trump’s Ukraine Pressure Campaign Grew Out Of Manafort’s Downfall
President Trump went down in history this month as the third president to be impeached, in part over an abuse of power allegation involving an attempt to extort Ukraine into attacking Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. But the story of the pressure campaign actually begins long before this year, with an individual who has gone without much...
The 2010s Were The Decade That Bent Democracy To The Breaking Point
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The decade that began in 2010 witnessed the gravest threats to the integrity of American democracy since the Civil War. It was the age of extreme polarization and political gerrymandering. It saw an unprecedent intervention in an American presidential election by a...
DOJ: No Need To Fast Track McGahn Case Now That House Has Impeached Trump
The Justice Department argued Monday that the House’s move to impeach President Trump eliminated the need for an appeals court to fast-track a case about the House subpoena of Don McGahn. The argument came in court filings, which the court requested last week after the House voted on impeachment articles that were not directly related to...
Schumer Pounces On ‘Explosive’ New Emails From Key Witness On Ukraine Aid Freeze
On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) zeroed in on newly disclosed emails from Mike Duffey, an Office of Management and Budget official, which show he had requested the hold on the military aid to Ukraine about 90 minutes after President Donald Trump’s infamous July 25 call with the Ukrainian president. In the emails,...
