Don’t Care for This Impeachment? Wait ’til Next Year.
WASHINGTON — The second season of impeachment had ended less than a day earlier, but Republicans were already talking about next season. It sounded ominous....
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McConnell Privately Backs Impeachment as House Moves to Charge Trump
WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell has concluded that President Trump committed impeachable offenses and believes that Democrats’ move to impeach him will make it easier...
‘Hold the Line, Patriots’: New Scenes From the Capitol Riot
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Republicans Plan to Force at Least Three Votes to Invalidate Biden’s Election
The ringleader of the effort in the House, Representative Mo Brooks, Republican of Alabama, wrote on Twitter that 36 House Republicans had already agreed to...
Trump Pressures Pence to Reject Electoral Votes
“The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the president,” the amendment goes on, unless there is a tie or nobody has secured...
Ben Sasse Slams Republican Effort to Challenge Election
Mr. Trump has continued to falsely claim that Mr. Biden unfairly won the election because of widespread voter fraud and has demanded that congressional Republicans...
Sasse Slams G.O.P. Effort to Challenge Election Results as a ‘Dangerous Ploy’
WASHINGTON — Senator Ben Sasse on Thursday eviscerated a drive by his Republican colleagues in Congress to challenge the results of the 2020 election, rebuking...
‘Faith in Our Institutions Held’
The Electoral College votes, affirming Biden’s victory. So now it’s official, again. It’s Tuesday, and this is your politics tip sheet. Sign up here to...
With Selfies, Emojis and Little Disruption, the Electoral College Makes It Official
In the end, democracy carried the day. Wisconsin’s 10 electors calmly walked into a quiet State Capitol on Monday, seeing more police officers than protesters....
A Day That Settled an Election and Brought Hope for Defeating a Pandemic
Not everyone was quite ready to write off the tumult of 2020, which has been marked by the deadliest pandemic in a century, the most...