By Marisa Schultz | Fox News The White House’s plans for a speedy impeachment trial were thrown into doubt Tuesday with Senate Republicans on Tuesday floating competing proposals on how to deal with new explosive revelations from ex-national security adviser John Bolton — and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell telling Republicans he doesn’t have enough votes to block the calling of impeachment witnesses. […]
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Republicans call Bolton leak Kavanaugh ‘2.0,’ as publisher denies coordination
By Tyler Olson | Fox News Republican defenders of President Trump on Monday likened 11th-hour revelations in John Bolton’s forthcoming book concerning the matter at the heart of impeachment to the bombshell allegations that surfaced near the end of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation proceedings — as Bolton and his publishers adamantly denied coordinating with the media on the story. […]
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‘Case closed’: Mark Levin shows how White House can rebut articles of impeachment in under 2 minutes
By Charles Creitz | Fox News Mark Levin said the White House’s legal team can successfully rebut House Democrats’ impeachment allegations without using up anywhere close to the 24 total hours required by President Trump’s accusers. During this week’s “Life, Liberty & Levin” — airing at 8 p.m. ET on Sunday — Levin said Democrats still have no first-hand witnesses to President Trump’s […]
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Trump Impeachment Trial: What Happened on Day One in the Senate
By Zachary Stieber Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and 100 senators gathered in the Senate chambers in Washington on Tuesday for the start of the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump. Trump’s team of lawyers, led by White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and the president’s person lawyer, Jay Sekulow, argued in support of a […]
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Chief Justice Roberts admonishes both sides at Senate impeachment trial, after marathon session erupts into shouting match
By Gregg Re | Fox News A marathon, 12-hour first day in the Senate impeachment trial against President Trump erupted into a shouting match well after midnight Wednesday morning, as Trump’s legal team unloaded on Democratic impeachment manager Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. — in an exchange that prompted a bleary-eyed Chief Justice John Roberts to sternly admonish both sides for misconduct […]
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Supreme Court Rejects Democrats’ Requests for Expedited ObamaCare Appeal
By Michael Tennant The Supreme Court rejected petitions by Democrats to fast-track their appeal of a case challenging ObamaCare’s constitutionality, making it unlikely that a decision will be reached by the November elections. The high court’s order, issued Tuesday, stated that the court would not consider the appeal on an expedited basis. It may, however, […]
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Sen. Cornyn: Dems are in ‘state of panic’ about their weak impeachment case
By Joshua Nelson | Fox News Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Tuesday that the demands for new impeachment evidence and witnesses by Senate Democrats show they are “worried” about meeting the “threshold necessary to convict President Trump.” “It sounds to me they’re in a state of panic,” the member of the Senate Judiciary Committee told “America’s Newsroom,” making a point that Democrats are […]
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Rep. Ratcliffe on Dems’ impeachment case: Lack of fairness and due process will ‘surprise’ senators
By Julia Musto | Fox News As the Senate prepares to take on the case to impeach President Trump, all senators will be “surprised to learn” the full extent of the lack of due process and fairness implemented by House Democrats, Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, said Tuesday. Appearing on “America’s Newsroom” with host Sandra Smith, Ratcliffe — who is one of the eight House Republicans announced yesterday to join the president’s […]
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Schiff Says Calling Hunter Biden as Impeachment Witness Would Be ‘Illegitimate’
By Jack Phillips House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), one of the House impeachment managers in the Senate trial, remarked that the question of witnesses might have to be resolved by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who will preside over the process. “It would certainly be fair for the president and his team to […]
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Democratic impeachment managers blast McConnell’s trial rules as ‘rigged’
By Brooke Singman | Fox News The House managers prosecuting the case against President Trump blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s proposed trial rules as “rigged,” just hours before impeachment proceedings are slated to resume on the floor. The blistering statement from the impeachment managers came after McConnell, late Monday, revealed his resolution. DEMOCRATS CLASH WITH […]
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McConnell Releases Rules for Senate Impeachment Trial, Allows Vote on Witnesses
By Mimi Nguyen Ly Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) released a resolution outlining his proposed rules for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump late Monday. According to the resolution (pdf), the trial is set to start in earnest on Wednesday at 1 p.m., with the Senate to vote on whether to admit materials from […]
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Virginia’s Capitol flooded with gun rights activists for Second Amendment rally
By Barnini Chakraborty, Greg Norman | Fox News RICHMOND, Va. — Thousands of Second Amendment supporters carrying long firearms and wearing stickers reading “Guns Save Lives” descended upon Virginia’s Capitol in Richmond Monday for a widely publicized rally to protest a recent push by state Democrats for comprehensive gun control. The rally comes as the city has been on high alert for days following threats of violence, leading to road closures […]
