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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

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.

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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.

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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

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

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

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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

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 Independent UK

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

The Guardian - US

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.

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Salon

"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

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

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

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…

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"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

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

Liz Cheney in 2024? Deep skepticism emerges in key states

Liz Cheney is openly considering a presidential run

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Tribune News Service

The Republican Party is having an identity crisis

WASHINGTON — The GOP is now acting like a party in search of itself with less than three months before U.S. elections that once favored Republicans to retake both chambers of Congress and set them up for 2024.

Salon

Abortion, democracy reshaping midterms

No, one special election victory doesn't prove anything — but it sure feels like the political winds have shifted

Tribune News Service

Rekha Basu: Republicans keep siding with Trump over truth

Congresswoman Liz Cheney stood outside, against a rustic Wyoming backdrop after losing her Republican primary race last week, and told the press and supporters what she had just done: called her opponent and conceded.

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