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Speaker Mike Johnson could block the seating of victorious Democrats in the House of Representatives on January 3. On Jan 6, 2021, Trump ordered then-Vice President Mike Pence to violate his constitutional duty to certify the duly elected electors

At his hearing, Blanche gave senators clear evidence that he conspired to create a bogus, illegal deal to enrich the boss and impoverish the public. The slush fund and the tax amnesty are both very much in play.

Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes was a spur of the moment decision designed to get the issue behind him quickly. “Trump just said: ‘F*ck it: Release ‘em all,’” an advisor recalled.

A prominent federal judge on Wednesday ripped President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for Jan. 6 rioters, saying the justification he offered in his proclamation was “flatly wrong” and a “revisionist myth.”

The Roberts court has completely remade federal elections to advantage Republican interests—in nearly every instance on a straight party-line vote. This amounts to decades of election interference to shielding Trump from legal accountability....

Much attention has been focused on the "insurrection" clause (Section 3) and whether Trump should be allowed to hold office, given his role in the Jan 6th attempted insurrection, his actions are also at odds with other key provisions of the amendment

To recruit and train members of a civilian military force under his control, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has hired a company that specializes in combat training and lists as one of its instructors a former U.S. Navy SEAL accused of war crimes.

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Neither CNN nor its host was able to take control as the ex-president played steamroller, to the audience’s delight. It began and ended in a way that absolutely everyone could have predicted.