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Congressional Democrats, led by Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), unveiled legislation Thursday to expand the US Supreme Court The legislation, entitled “Judiciary Act of 2021,” seeks to amend 28 USC §1, which currently says “The Supreme Court of the United States shall consist of a Chief Justice of the United [...]

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi on Monday proposed creating an independent, “9/11-type Commission” to investigate the January 6 attacks on the US Capitol building. Pelosi released the letter, titled “Dear Colleague: Security, Security, Security,” with recognition of President’s Day and the efforts of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to protect the [...]

US President Joe Biden has rescinded the national emergency at the US-Mexico border issued by former President Donald Trump to justify construction on the border wall, the White House announced on Thursday. Terminating the national emergency marks the culmination of the current administration’s effort to end construction on the border wall, which began when Biden issued an [...]

The second day of proceedings in the impeachment trial against former president Donald Trump concluded on Wednesday. Trump is being tried on allegations that his conduct incited the attacks on the US Capitol on January 6. The proceedings continued after the Senate voted 56-44 that they had jurisdiction to try Trump for a second time [...]

On January 8, 2021, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took the extraordinary step of publicly revealing she had talked with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, about “available precautions for preventing an unstable President from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.” [...]

According to court documents filed Sunday, the FBI is investigating a woman who allegedly stole a laptop from Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s office during the January 6 siege of the US Capitol. A special agent with the FBI filed an arrest warrant for Riley Williams, a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based woman charged with [...]

The US House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday evening calling for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment and remove President Donald Trump from office. Requests for Pence to convene the cabinet to remove Trump have grown in recent days, as reports indicate the president is unwilling to resign in the aftermath [...]

Democrats in the House of Representatives have circulated a draft of a new article of impeachment against President Trump charging him with “incitement of insurrection” for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol during congressional vote counting. The impeachment comes in response to pro-Trump rioters storming the Capitol building in Washington [...]

“I… do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I bear true faith and allegiance to the same …” As a young newly minted second lieutenant in the United States Air Force and through each promotion to the rank [...]

The new year means new rules for the 2021 Congress. House speaker Nancy Pelosi, who narrowly won reelection Sunday, revealed a set of proposed ethical and legislative reforms on Friday. Pelosi said these proposed changes seek to “ accountability for the American people, and this House of Representatives the most inclusive in history.” Under the [...]