203 GOPers oppose coup prevention bill Only nine Republicans supported a bill to prevent another Jan. 6-style insurrection Salon · Sep 22, 2022
Jan. 6 committee, racing year-end clock, expects final hearing next week WASHINGTON — A House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack is seeking to reclaim some of the spotlight lost to other blockbuster legal developments around Donald Trump with what could be its final hearing next week. Tribune News Service · Sep 21, 2022
Jan. 6 committee-led elections bill passes House, but has an uncertain Senate future WASHINGTON — The House quickly took up and passed its response to a Senate proposal on how to overhaul a 135-year-old law governing the counting of presidential electoral votes, sending the hot-button issue back to the other side of the Capitol. Tribune News Service · Sep 21, 2022
203 Republicans try to vote down bill to make it harder to overthrow election None of the Republicans who voted for the bill will return to Congress in January The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022
The House just passed a bill that would make it harder to overthrow an election The bill would amend the Electoral Count Act, which legal experts have called vague and confusing. The legislation is similar to a somewhat narrower bill from a bipartisan group of senators. WEKU · Sep 21, 2022
Jan. 6 committee-led elections bill passes House, but has an uncertain Senate future - Roll Call Lawmakers in both chambers are hoping to update the Electoral Count Act of 1887, but can’t agree on how — and time is slipping away. Roll Call · Sep 21, 2022
Mitch McConnell called Trump ‘crazy’ after Capitol attack, new book says Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian’s Unchecked reports the Senate Republican leader vowed never to speak to Trump again The Guardian - US · Sep 21, 2022
Liz Cheney says frustrated pro-Trump colleague muttered on Jan 6: ‘The things we do for the Orange Jesus’ Ms Cheney lost her Republican primary last month The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022
House to vote on election law overhaul in response to Jan. 6 The House is preparing to vote on an overhaul of a centuries-old election law in an effort to prevent future presidential candidates from trying to subvert the popular will The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022
Liz Cheney introduces electoral vote bill to avoid repeat of Jan. 6 Republican Representative Liz Cheney introduced a bill Monday that would change how Congress counts presidential electors to reduce the chances of another effort to overturn election results like that mounted by former President Donald Trump last year. Tribune News Service · Sep 19, 2022
Panels in both chambers to take up presidential elector overhauls WASHINGTON — With the calendar winding down on a 117th Congress that began with rioters storming the Capitol, lawmakers in both chambers on Friday announced plans to take up bills that overhaul a 135-year-old law governing the counting of presidential electoral votes. Tribune News Service · Sep 16, 2022
Panels in both chambers to take up presidential elector overhauls - Roll Call House and Senate committees both announced Friday they will take up bills to overhaul the Electoral Count Act. Roll Call · Sep 16, 2022
What’s next for the January 6 committee? With possibility of a Republican-led Congress on the horizon, panel probing US Capitol riot prepares for final push. Al Jazeera · Sep 13, 2022
Liz Cheney says new revelations reveal true ‘danger’ of Donald Trump Cheney is one of the two Republicans on the investigating committee The Independent UK · Sep 13, 2022
The Independent UK · Sep 13, 2022 What's left as Jan. 6 panel sprints to year-end finish The House Jan. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection by the end of the year
The Guardian - US · Sep 7, 2022 The Democrats’ best message for the midterms: democracy is in grave peril Republicans’ efforts to delegitimize the electoral process should trouble us greatly. Democrats ought to hammer this home
Tribune News Service · Sep 6, 2022 Commentary: A bold idea for Liz Cheney Desperate times call for desperate measures. Following her Republican primary defeat on Aug. 16, Rep. Liz Cheney referenced Lincoln’s words while introducing the establishment of her new leadership PAC, called The Great Task. This great task that Cheney is undertaking is enormous and it will require innovative political tactics.
Salon · Sep 6, 2022 "Trump is beatable": Ex-GOP ambassador James B. Foley doesn't believe that a Trump nomination is inevitable in the 2024 Republican presidential primary
Los Angeles Times · Sep 2, 2022 What's the TV schedule for the next round of Jan. 6 committee hearings? The House Jan. 6 select committee is expected hold at least one more hearing in September. But it has raised so many questions about the events surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol that it's unclear whether the panel will get to them all.
The Guardian - US · Sep 1, 2022 Ginni Thomas lobbied Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn 2020 election The wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas urged a Wisconsin state senator and representative to do their ‘duty’
The Conversation · Sep 1, 2022 US byelections suggest improved prospects for Democrats at midterms, while Liz Cheney suffers huge loss The US midterm elections occur in just over two months, on November 8. All 435 House of Representatives seats and 35 of the 100 senators are up for election. At the 2020 elections, Democrats won the house by a 222-213 margin, and held the Senate on a 50-50 tie with…
Salon · Aug 31, 2022 "Staged": Trump's defenders are flailing Trump loyalists try to deflect from his actions on Twitter, calling a photo released in a new DOJ filing "staged"
Salon · Aug 29, 2022 Trump's lawyer ties raid to Cheney loss "The timing of this is so suspicious," says Former President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Jenna Ellis
The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2022 Liz Cheney in 2024? Deep skepticism emerges in key states Liz Cheney is openly considering a presidential run
Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 28, 2022 Kinzinger on GOP abortion bans: ‘The crueler you are, the more likely you are to win a primary’ Kinzinger said Sunday he is open to backing “left wing” Democrats who believe in democracy over “anti-democracy”: Republicans.