Both Texas Republican Senators — Ted Cruz and John Cornyn will both attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. The news of Cruz attendance was seen as unexpected and first broke by KXAN Austin on Friday. Cornyn responded to a […]
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham(R-SC) on Friday released a trove of documents, depositions, and interview transcripts related to the origins of the “Russiagate,” slamming the FBI’s Russia Collusion probe that dominated the Trump administration as the “most incompetent and corrupt investigations in the history of the FBI and DOJ.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has indicated that he is “pleased” Democrats are moving forward to impeach President Trump, saying the push will make it “easier to purge” his influence and the movement from the Republican Party, according to a New York Times report.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and a handful of Republican slate of electors from Arizona filed a federal suit in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas on Sunday, suing Vice President Mike Pence’s in a long-shot bid […]
Both chambers of Congress on Monday night passed a $2.3 trillion spending package just hours before the midnight shutdown deadline designed to fund the federal government budget through next September paired with a rescue relief package to aid Americans reeling from […]
Outgoing Attorney General William Barr said he saw no reason or has “no plan” to appoint a special counsel to oversee either investigation related to President-elect Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, or to look into President Trump’s claims of election […]
President Trump’s campaign team on Sunday filed a long-shot appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to reverse three decisions that were decided by Pennsylvania’s Democratic-majority Supreme Court that changed the state mail-in ballot laws, claiming there is a “likelihood” […]
President-elect Joe Biden defended his son Hunter Biden, saying he has “great confidence” amid an ongoing federal investigation and believes Republicans’ efforts in their calls for a special counsel investigation into his son’s foreign business dealings is a political “cudgel” that amounts […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) officially acknowledged Joe Biden as the president-elect for the first time since the Nov. 3 election Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking Republican in congratulating the Democrat just a day after the Electoral College formally made the […]
Texas elector members on Monday after casting all of the states’ 38 Electoral College votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, passed a resolution calling on state legislatures from four battleground states that were carried by President-elect Joe Biden in appointing […]
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