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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 [...]

Former President Trump’s lawyers wrapped up their defense in three hours on Friday, marking the fourth day of the impeachment trial in the Senate. The defense consisted of accusations that the House impeachment managers were taking the ex-president’s statements out of context, and that Trump’s exhortations to his followers to “fight” amounted to little more [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an affidavit on Thursday charging five individuals associated with the Proud Boys with conspiracy in connection to the insurrection in Washington, DC, on January 6. The affidavit establishes evidence that the five individuals conspired “to corruptly obstruct, influence, or impede an official proceeding before Congress, that is, the certification [...]

House impeachment managers concluded their case Thursday, advocating for the conviction of former president Donald Trump in his second Senate trial. “The world is watching us and wondering whether our constitutional republic is going to respond the way it should,” impeachment manager Joaquin Castro emphasized as the Senate jurors consider convicting Trump of incitement of [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) stated in a court filing Thursday that a leader of the Oath Keepers, a paramilitary group, believed she was responding to a call from former president Donald Trump to stop the certification of the election results on January 6. Prior to and after losing the presidential election, Trump sewed [...]

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 [...]

The US Senate on Tuesday voted 56-44 to proceed with the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, finding jurisdiction under the US Constitution. Lead impeachment manager Representative Jamie Raskin opened the day with a video depicting events from the January 6 storming of the US Capitol. The video began with Trump speaking at a rally [...]

US House impeachment managers filed a pre-trial brief on Monday challenging former president Donald Trump’s claims that his second impeachment trial is unconstitutional and that it was his speech that incited the Capitol attacks on January 6. The pre-trial brief is directly in response to the answer Trump filed arguing against his second impeachment. In [...]

A letter signed by 144 constitutional law scholars and circulated Friday characterizes as “legally frivolous” ex-president Donald Trump’s First Amendment-based defense in his impeachment trial slated to start in the US Senate on February 9. The scholars contend that it does not matter whether Trump was engaged in lawful speech when he spoke prior to [...]

Canada formally added far-right extremist group the Proud Boys to its list of terrorist entities on Wednesday, according to a news release from Public Safety Canada, making it the first country to do so. The Proud Boys were among 13 new groups placed on Canada’s Criminal Code list of terrorist entities, including al-Qaeda, ISIS and [...]