A majority of Americans also think the Select Committee has been fair – Staff Report – Nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. The same number…
By Glynn Wilson – Donald Trump’s big lie about the 2020 election and his big ripoff that continues remains a “clear and present danger to American democracy,” according to testimony before the House Select Committee investigating Trump’s insurrection by J. Michael Luttig, a retired conservative federal appeals court judge who advised Vice President Mike Pence…
Surely There is a Crime Here Somewhere – By Glynn Wilson – It’s the biggest grifter con in history, and it’s still going on. If the public doesn’t get this by now, American democracy is doomed. Maybe that’s Trump’s intent. Even the most creative writer in the world could not make this stuff up. Only…
It Was Trump’s Plot All Along: Will We Hold Him Accountable? – By Glynn Wilson – The American experiment in democracy has been saved at critical points over the past 246 years by a number of brave actions, yes, but also a fair number of haphazard accidents — and a few political ironies. If this…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump’s criminal presidency will be back on the news tube front and center Thursday night when the House Select Committee investigating the seditious insurrection and unprecedented attack on the United States government and Capitol convenes the first hearing to begin showing its evidence to the American people.…
The massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, highlights disparities in how federal laws regulate rifles and handguns. The shooter bought two rifles days after his 18th birthday. By Kiah Collier and Jeremy Schwartz – ProPublica and The Texas Tribune – Co-published with ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. The fact that the gunman responsible…
The First Amendment Guarantee of ‘Free Speech’ Only Applies to Government Censorship, Not Moderation by Private Social Media Companies – By Glynn Wilson – In an important ruling that should make it clear to the American people why the Constitutional right of free speech does not apply to private companies, including social media platforms like…
By Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Kirsten Berg – ProPublica – By the time Leamsy Salazar sat down in front of a video recorder in a lawyer’s office in Dallas, he had grown accustomed to divulging state secrets. After swearing to tell nothing but the truth so help him God, he recounted that he…
History in the Making – Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the Senate as the first African American woman to the United States Supreme Court on Thursday in a somewhat bipartisan vote of 53-47. Three Republicans joined Democrats…
Budget Includes Increases for National Park Service, EPA – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s hard to remember a time when a president’s budget plan was greeted with more enthusiasm than the $5.8 trillion budget proposal issued by the Biden Administration on Monday. The last time this happened was probably 1999, in Bill Clinton’s…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine delivered an emotional plea for help from the world and America in a live video address to Congress on Wednesday as the Russian army proceeded to pound much of the country to rubble, destroying a place Russian dictator president Vladimir Putin says he wants…
President Trump’s former campaign chairman and former lawyer worked with, between them, a deposed authoritarian president, a bevy of oligarchs, Russia-oriented politicians and alleged Russian spies. By Ilya Marritz ProPublica. Though Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is just days old, Russia has been working for years to influence and undermine the independence of its smaller…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, will begin on March 21, the chair of the committee announced Wednesday. Senator Richard Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, revealed the timetable and was joined by Majority Leader Chuck…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden stood before Congress Tuesday night and aside from a few stumbled words, delivered a commanding performance calling on all Americans, from all parties, every member of Congress, to stand up to Russia on behalf of Ukraine, to get onboard with his plan to fix the economy,…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court pick, has more initial support for her confirmation than any of the three jurists nominated by President Donald Trump, according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll. Only 17 percent of voters oppose the nomination. A plurality of voters, 46 percent,…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The people of Ukraine have taken up arms to help their defense forces fight off the unprecedented Russian invasion and their efforts appear to be working to slow the advance toward Kyiv, the capitol city, according to on the ground reporting by The New York Times and other news…
Will the American People Be Told the Truth About Who is Responsible? By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The mysterious Havana Syndrome, called an “alleged set of medical symptoms with unknown causes experienced mostly abroad by U.S. government officials and military personnel,” is so mainstream now that it has its own Wikipedia page. So…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of progressive Democrats inspired by the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders in 2016 is going after a far right Trump supporting candidate for governor of Maryland, Dan Cox, who is now a Republican member of the state House of Delegates and has filed articles of impeachment…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The news is not as huge as an indictment and show trial of former President Donald Trump would be. But the announcement by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that he will retire at the end of this court term and give President Joe Biden a chance to nominate…
By Glynn Wilson – Alabama football coach Nick Saban and other sports leaders with ties to West Virginia are urging Senator Joe Manchin to support voting rights legislation, according to a letter dated January 13 that became public on Wednesday. “We strongly support urgently needed legislation that will protect both the rights of voters and…
