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Rep. Jennifer Wexton, Democrat of Virginia, sat upright but slumped on the dark leather couch in her Capitol Hill office this week, using her right hand to prop up her neck. Diagnosed earlier this year with Progressive Supra-nuclear Palsy, which she has described as “Parkinsons on steroids,” she announced in September that she would retire at the end of her term, in January 2025, because “there is no getting better” from this disease.She said in a strained voice that the House of Representatives…
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A federal judge has sentenced Kendrid Hamlin of Washington, D.C., to 27 months in prison for the February assault of Rep. Angie Craig, Democrat of Minnesota, in the elevator of Craig’s Capitol Hill apartment complex. Hamlin followed, trapped and then punched Craig during the attack, according to the Justice Department. She was bruised and injured. Craig told CBS News she managed to escape by throwing her hot coffee on Hamlin and racing out the doors at the next floor. Hamlin pleaded guilty i…
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Rep. Angie Craig, Democrat of Minnesota, has asked a federal judge to impose punishment that holds “accountable” the man who admits he assaulted her in the elevator of her Washington, D.C., apartment complex in February. Kendrid Hamlin, a man with a long record of prior arrests, was charged with punching, trapping and injuring Craig. He faces sentencing Thursday.In a victim-impact statement submitted ahead of the hearing, Craig writes that the assault “had a lasting impact on my family.” Craig…
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Washington — For veterans service organizations and military community and family support groups, the well-worn playbook for lobbying and advocacy isn’t working this time with Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. “He’s put his foot down, so we’ve moved on. We’re not focused on Sen. Tuberville anymore,” said Besa Pinchotti, who runs the National Military Family Association, a group which represents military families. “We’re focused on moving these promotions forward in another way,” ad…
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Nearly a year after the Jan. 6 House select committee issued its final report, the panel’s former members, many of whom were ousted in last year’s midterm elections, argue that a second Trump presidency risks upending the norms of American democracy and triggering the same kinds of destabilizing events that occurred in the weeks after the 2020 election.If Trump wins, more voters foresee better finances, staying out of war - CBS News poll”I think he ends up mass pardoning the January 6th defendan…
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Hours after Rep. Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, was sworn in as the new House speaker, a letter arrived at Johnson’s new office suite in room H-232 of the Capitol. A few dozen House Democrats informed him in that letter that in the three weeks in which the House operated without a speaker, “2,030 people have died from gun violence including 15 children and 60 teenagers.”“Another 2,072 people were injured by gun violence and our country was traumatized by 33 more mass shootings,” they add…
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Washington — A physical altercation broke out during a hearing on Monday in the case of Vitali GossJankowski, a defendant convicted of several charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, resulting in toppled tables and multiple federal agents subduing the defendant on the ground.Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered GossJankowski jailed for a series of recent doxxing threats targeting federal agents. Moments later, GossJankowski stood…
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Washington — In an op-ed he wrote in 2005, newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson called abortion “a holocaust” and linked the judicial philosophy that legalized the right to an abortion to Hitler.The op-ed was a response to the death of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose vegetative state triggered a long legal battle and federal action from Congress.In the opinion piece published by the Shreveport Times, Johnson wrote, “The prevailing judicial philosophy is no different than Hitler’s. Bec…
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Some New York Republicans say they’re going to push ahead with a formal resolution to expel embattled Rep. George Santos, Republican of New York, now that the House is open after its three-week speaker stalemate. Santos’ New York House colleagues announced a measure last week to boot him from Congress, after federal prosecutors added new charges and allegations to a federal indictment that accuses Santos of committing fraud and conspiracy. The New York Republicans said they expect to move ahead…
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Washington — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge overseeing the criminal case involving the 2020 presidential election to dismiss the charges brought against him, arguing in a series of filings that he was, in part, engaging in constitutionally protected speech and his prosecution is politically motivated.The motions submitted to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan just before the midnight deadline seek to dismiss the indictment returned in August, which acc…
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D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has issued an administrative stay, agreeing to temporarily pause her partial gag order of former President Donald Trump to give the parties time to submit appeal briefs. The stay is not related to the merits of the case.Late Friday afternoon in a court filing, Trump defense attorneys asked Judge Chutkan to stay the limited gag order she issued against Trump in the 2020 election conspiracy criminal case, while Trump appeals the order, arguing that it’s unconstitu…
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