Rep. Liz Cheney is getting lavished with praise by Democrats after she became one of 10 House Republicans who bucked their party and voted to impeach President Trump. Cheney, daughter of conservative Vice President and Iraq War architect Dick Cheney, was the highest-ranking Republican to come out against Trump in the House when she released...
Rep. Steve Scalise called for a round of applause from the House on Wednesday for the Capitol Police officers who defended the US Capitol exactly one week ago from a mob of rioters as the chamber prepared to vote on impeaching President Trump. Scalise, who was seriously wounded in a shooting at a congressional softball...
As House members debated whether to impeach President Trump on Wednesday, and threats of more protests at next week’s inauguration loom, the White House released a statement from the president calling for calm. “In light of reports of more demonstrations, I urge that there must be NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any...
The House of Representatives is in the process of impeaching President Trump a second time in little more than a year after Vice President Mike Pence rejected invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the commander-in-chief from office. The House approved an article of impeachment on Monday that charged the president with “inciting violence against the government of...
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy threatened to call for a vote to oust House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if she makes an effort to impeach President Trump to block him from nominating a Supreme Court justice. “I will make you this one promise, listening to the speaker on television this weekend, if she tries to move...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday refused to rule out using impeachment to block Senate Republicans from voting on President Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos raised the possibility with Pelosi that the Democrat-controlled House would move to impeach Trump or...
GOP Sen. Rand Paul called for the impeachment of Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the number of deaths among New York nursing home patients during the coronavirus outbreak this spring. “I think Gov. Cuomo should be impeached for what he did, for the disastrous decision he made to send patients with coronavirus back to nursing homes,”...
House Democrats asked the Supreme Court to release the redacted grand jury testimony from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s completed Russia probe because their investigation into whether President Trump committed impeachable offenses is still underway. The House Judiciary Committee said the secret grand jury testimony “is central” to its continuing inquiry into whether Trump obstructed...
President Trump on Sunday ripped former President George W. Bush for urging Americans to dismiss partisanship during the coronavirus pandemic, questioning where the Republican was during the impeachment “hoax.” In a three-minute video released on the Twitter account of The George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, the former commander-in-chief reminded Americans “how small our...