The Republican impeachment inquiry into President Biden got off to a rocky start on Thursday as the GOP sought to stress a need for the investigation while Democrats argued they had done little to advance the specter of wrongdoing by the man they aim to remove from office. Republicans sought to draw attention to evidence…
Author: Rebecca Beitsch
GOP witness says ‘current evidence’ doesn’t support Biden impeachment
Some of the Republican-invited witnesses at the GOP’s first impeachment inquiry hearing cast doubt on whether there was enough evidence to support an impeachment of President Biden. Jonathan Turley, a go-to witness for conservatives in Congress, at one point told lawmakers that some of the details they’d gathered “really do gravitate in favor of the…
Raskin said GOP doesn’t have smoking gun or ‘dripping water pistol’ in impeachment quest
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), used Republicans’ own words against them and sought to subpoena Rudy Giuliani in an effort to undercut the GOP’s impeachment inquiry into President Biden. In a lengthy opening statement replete with numerous props, including a countdown clock pointing to the pending government shutdown,…
Special counsel fights Trump effort to ‘upend the entire schedule’ of Mar-a-Lago case
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team aggressively pushed back against a proposal by former President Trump to shift court deadlines in his upcoming trial for mishandling classified records at Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s proposed delay of various deadlines for procedures for addressing classified evidence “threatens to upend the entire schedule established by the Court and that amounts to…
Divided GOP set to hold first Biden impeachment hearing in face of pending shutdown
Republicans hope to convince the public and even some of their colleagues that an impeachment inquiry into President Biden holds merit at their first hearing Thursday. The GOP’s sprawling investigation seeks to establish that Hunter Biden engaged in unethical business practices by leveraging his family name and then connect any wrongdoing back to the president. …
Judge Chutkan denies Trump bid for her recusal in Jan. 6 case
Judge Tanya Chutkan denied a motion from former President Trump asking her to recuse herself from overseeing his prosecution on charges related to his efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. While writing that recusal motions served a vital purpose, “justice also demands that judges not recuse without cause,” she wrote, pointing…
Hunter Biden sues Giuliani for ‘hacking’ and disseminating his data
Hunter Biden is suing Rudy Giuliani for “total annihilation” of his digital privacy and data, filing a civil suit over the former mayor’s involvement in disseminating information he purported to be from Biden’s laptop. “Defendants are among those who have been primarily responsible for what has been described as the ‘total annihilation’ of Plaintiff’s digital…
Trump team bashes proposed gag order in Jan. 6 case
Former President Trump on Monday vigorously urged a judge to deny a Department of Justice (DOJ) request for a “narrow” gag order limiting how he can talk about witnesses and others involved in his prosecution stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The 25-page brief from Trump’s legal team sounded much like…
Republicans name witnesses for first impeachment hearing
Republicans will kick off their first impeachment hearing with a trio of witnesses, asking a forensic accountant, former Justice Department tax attorney, and conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley to weigh in on the business dealings of the Biden family. Led by the House Oversight Committee, the hearing is titled “The Basis for an Impeachment Inquiry…
Judge to examine alleged attorney conflicts of interest in Mar-a-Lago case
Judge Aileen Cannon agreed to a Justice Department (DOJ) request Monday to hold hearings to examine potential conflicts of interest of two attorneys representing former President Trump’s co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago case. The move comes after the DOJ warned that the two attorneys are representing other clients who may be called as witnesses against Walt…