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Steve Doocy, Nudes And A Ford Raptor: The Year In Impeachment

31Dec

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Politics

Steve Doocy, Nudes And A Ford Raptor: The Year In Impeachment

Nothing that happened in Washington this year better encapsulates the modern Republican Party than the impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. And nothing will better symbolize former President Donald Trump’s control over the party than if the GOP goes through with it in 2024. Republicans have used their quest for dirt on the Biden family to jockey among themselves for power in Washington and to gratify Trump by writing an alternate history of his presidency while casting Biden as corrupt. The material Republicans are working with, however, isn’t the evidence of corruption they keep saying it is. Their own expert witnesses even said at a hearing in September that Republicans hadn’t uncovered any high crimes or misdemeanors. It doesn’t matter. The impeachment inquiry is gaining mo...

Deconstructing Paul Ryan’s Condemnation of Donald Trump

19Dec

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Entertainment

Deconstructing Paul Ryan’s Condemnation of Donald Trump

Last week, Paul Ryan, the former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, did an online video interview in which he called Donald Trump a “populist, authoritarian narcissist.” Ryan’s comments produced the predictable reaction: a slew of headlines; an angry diatribe from a Trump spokesman (“Paul Ryan is a loser who left Congress in disgrace after he, along with Mitt Romney, failed miserably”); and then nothing. The political world rapidly moved on to the next controversy.That’s how things work these days, but, as we prepare to move into a Presidential-election year with Trump seemingly poised to capture the G.O.P. nomination for a third time, it’s worth stopping to examine Ryan’s remarks, which went beyond his three-word zinger. Since retiring from Congress at the end of 2018, R...

Biden’s Agenda Hangs in Balance as Tough Election Year Approaches

16Dec

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World

Biden’s Agenda Hangs in Balance as Tough Election Year Approaches

Updated Dec. 16, 2023 12:06 am ETWASHINGTON—President Biden heads into the end of the year with deepening Democratic worries about his re-election, as his effort to aid allies in two wars hangs in the balance on Capitol Hill and an impeachment inquiry into him and his family moves forward. At the same time, some rays of hope are peeking through for the incumbent as a tough 2024 contest looms, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaching a record high and—perhaps most important from an electoral perspective—consumer confidence rebounding this month faster than expected. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

House Votes to Back Opening of GOP Impeachment Probe of Biden

14Dec

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World

House Votes to Back Opening of GOP Impeachment Probe of Biden

Updated Dec. 14, 2023 12:21 am ETWASHINGTON—The House narrowly approved opening an impeachment probe into President Biden on Wednesday, hours after his son, Hunter Biden, defied a congressional demand to testify on Capitol Hill, marking a sharp escalation in the battle between the White House and Republicans.The House voted 221-212 along party lines to formally authorize Republicans’ impeachment probe, which party leaders initiated several months ago, hoping to add legal and political muscle to the investigation into whether the president had ties to his son’s overseas business dealings. While GOP lawmakers have obtained testimony that Joe Biden before becoming president occasionally met with his son’s business associates, they haven’t uncovered support for those claims or established tha...

14Dec

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World

House Votes to Back Opening of GOP Impeachment Probe of Biden

Updated Dec. 13, 2023 7:11 pm ETWASHINGTON—The House narrowly approved opening an impeachment probe into President Biden on Wednesday, hours after his son, Hunter Biden, defied a congressional demand to testify on Capitol Hill, marking a sharp escalation in the battle between the White House and Republicans.The House voted 221-212 along party lines to formally authorize Republicans’ impeachment probe, which party leaders initiated several months ago, hoping to add legal and political muscle to the investigation into whether the president had ties to his son’s overseas business dealings. While GOP lawmakers have obtained testimony that Joe Biden before becoming president occasionally met with his son’s business associates, they haven’t uncovered support for those claims or established that...

Special Counsel Asks Supreme Court to Quickly Rule on Trump’s Immunity

11Dec

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World

Special Counsel Asks Supreme Court to Quickly Rule on Trump’s Immunity

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 2:44 pm ETWASHINGTON—Special counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to take up Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution and cannot face criminal charges related to efforts to overturn the November 2020 election, in an unusual effort to expedite a judgment crucial for moving the case speedily toward trial.The former president’s lawyers have grounded that argument in the Senate having acquitted him in an 2021 impeachment trial involving many of the same events, and that trying him again would amount to double jeopardy—that is, being prosecuted twice for the same crime.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8