The House prosecutors delivered the sole impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection,” making the ceremonial walk across the Capitol to the Senate. But Republican denunciations of Trump have cooled since the Jan. 6 riot. Instead Republicans are presenting a tangle of legal arguments against the legitimacy of the trial and questions whether Trump’s repeated demands to overturn Joe Biden’s election really amounted to incitement. … [Read more...] about 2nd Trump Impeachment Trial Triggered As House Delivers Impeachment Article To Senate
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Trump impeachment goes to Senate, testing his sway over GOP
For Democrats the tone, tenor and length of the upcoming trial, so early in Biden's presidency, poses its own challenge, forcing them to strike a balance between their vow to hold Trump accountable and their eagerness to deliver on the new administration's priorities following their sweep of control of the House, Senate and White House. … [Read more...] about Trump impeachment goes to Senate, testing his sway over GOP
Breaking ‘Unity’ Pledge, Joe Biden Backs Trump Impeachment Trial
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Biden (mostly) builds on Trump’s foreign policy
But Beijing also created a new level of atrocity apparently not employed by the Soviets in their genocidal undertakings. With seized Uighur men placed in concentration and “reeducation” camps, Chinese soldiers were stationed in their homes as new “members of the family,” including sharing the beds of the inmates' wives. While this cruelty matched the sexual slavery of Imperial Japan’s use of “comfort women,” it had a perverse strategic purpose as well. The rapes and forced impregnations produced Han-ized children who would be raised outside the Uighur culture and Muslim religion, a diabolical new technique for destroying an ethnic and religious group. … [Read more...] about Biden (mostly) builds on Trump’s foreign policy
Senate to vote Tuesday on Biden’s secretary of State pick
But it's still outpacing the confirmation of Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonSenate to vote Tuesday on Biden's secretary of State pick Biden must wait weekend for State Department pick Tillerson: 'We squandered the best opportunity we had on North Korea' MORE, former President TrumpDonald TrumpSchumer: Impeachment trial will be quick, doesn't need a lot of witnesses Nurse to be tapped by Biden as acting surgeon general: report Schumer calls for Biden to declare climate emergency MORE's first secretary of State. Tillerson had his hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 11, but wasn't confirmed by the full Senate until Feb. 1. … [Read more...] about Senate to vote Tuesday on Biden’s secretary of State pick