On Monday night, the central committee of North Carolina’s Republican Party unanimously voted to censure Sen. Richard Burr over his vote to convict Donald Trump in the impeachment trial. Just two days prior, Louisiana’s Republican Party had censured Sen. Bill Cassidy for the same, and censures are now under consideration…
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Today marks the first day of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. The history-making trial will serve as the first time that a president has been tried after leaving office and the first time that a president has been tried twice in the wake of two impeachments.
Turn on any talk show or read the headlines churned out by newsrooms, and you will see the contention made that we as a nation have never been more divided. That we have reached a new and remarkable impasse, unparalleled by anything previously seen. That we are navigating uncharted waters….
A group of seven Senate Democrats filed an ethics complaint against Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley last week over their decision to object to the Jan. 6 certification of election results, claiming that making such an objection amidst violent threats “lent legitimacy to the mob’s cause and made…
I have always believed in the importance of checks and balances. I believed that it was necessary to have a party who would fight for smaller government, should the other party sometimes fall prey to the trap of viewing government as the sole potential purveyor of a solution. I believed…
Remember what it was like not to think about the president? To go about your day—or even week—without a single second lost to the stressors that come with wondering what they were doing (or not doing, for that matter)? It seems like such a distant memory. Like a time lost…