In the most bipartisan presidential impeachment vote in the history of the country, a powerful majority of both houses of Congress found that the former President incited violent insurrection against the Union & the Congress. History will record his terrible constitutional crime.
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Sharing my complete statement on my diagnosis. Thanks for all the overwhelming support. I am very optimistic about my treatment and am grateful for your encouragement, support and prayers.
By refusing to seat Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar on their committees while seating compulsive liar and conman George Santos and bowing and scraping to compulsive liar and conman Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy has shown America exactly what he believes in: nothing.
McCarthy giving 40,000 hrs of Jan. 6 tape to a pro-Putin journalist is an astounding ethical collapse. What security precautions were taken to keep this from becoming a roadmap for 2024 insurrection? Why isn’t it available to all media & public? Smell the MAGA propaganda coming.
Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin on the Remarkable Life of Tommy Raskin:
This once-in-a-century humiliation of a party’s nominee for Speaker is chickens coming home to roost for McCarthy, who whitewashed right-wing insurrectionism on the House floor. Nobody’s getting killed now, but the House GOP now sleeps in the bed they made with Trump and Bannon.
Jim Jordan refusing to cooperate w/Jan. 6 committee? The same Jim Jordan who insisted in the Benghazi probe on our “basic duty” to “tell the people the truth” and who faulted officials for not moving “heaven and earth to rescue our people”? Perplexing.
The House passed the Women’s Health Protection Act months ago to codify Roe. The Senate must reject the filibuster and pass it. This is the worst reversal of constitutional freedom since the Court gutted the Reconstruction amendments in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Tomorrow, after years of advocacy by Americans working to improve our mental health system, 988 will become our new nationwide number for suicide prevention, mental health and substance use crises. Call or text 988 for a trained counselor who can provide support. #988Lifeline
. if you and Bannon organized the violent insurrection against our government on 1/6 you’d be going to jail with everyone else convicted of seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to interfere with a federal proceeding. These are crimes, not stupid laugh lines.
In July I shared shocking testimony from an anonymous Twitter employee about warning signs she saw of what was coming on Jan. 6.
Today I’m honored to share her identity with you. Thank you, Anika Navaroli, for answering the call of the Committee and your country.
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My profound thanks to the American people for engaging so passionately with this crucial process & to our remarkable House impeachment managers & staff for their solemn work.
Right now Russian oligarchs who have millions or billions stowed away in US corporations can funnel dark money into our elections. We need to pass my Get Foreign Money Out of Elections Act to safeguard strong democracy in America.
What goes round comes round. The right-wing habits of chaos and betrayal the GOP unleashed against the American Republic on Jan. 6 are now destroying Lincoln’s party. The sedition you feed is the sedition that feeds on you.
With profound sorrow, Congressman Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today announced the loss of their son Tommy: raskin.house.gov/media/press-re
Democracies of the world must act fast to make clear there will be no support for right-wing insurrectionists storming the Brazilian Congress. These fascists modeling themselves after Trump’s Jan. 6 rioters must end up in the same place: prison.
What a brilliant, refreshing speech that revives true American populism—progressive democratic populism, not right-wing authoritarian fake-populism. Biden sounds Rooseveltian and is taking American politics by storm.
It is a feat of epic proportions to speak for four hours straight and not produce a single memorable phrase, original insight or even a joke.
McCarthy thinks he is a wit but so far he has proved he is only half right.
Notice how Trump urged Gov. Whitmer to “make a deal” with armed right-wing protesters, the “very good people” who invaded and shut down the Michigan legislature, but now threatens to unleash the U. S. military on hundreds of thousands peacefully protesting racist violence.
Honored and humbled to be named an impeachment manager with a team of colleagues who are serious lawyers and unstoppable patriots. We have a solemn duty to protect our democracy and Constitution.
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I was recruited to by Representative Elijah Cummings on my first day in Congress & it is overwhelming to think I will now become one of his successors. I thank my Caucus colleagues for entrusting me with the awesome responsibility of being Oversight Ranking Member.
Thank you, Marjorie, for this touching message, which my youngest daughter showed me. I’m grateful for your concern and very sorry to learn that you lost your father to cancer. Wishing you happy holidays with loved ones.
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We disagree often, but I’ll be praying for Jamie Raskin. Cancer is a terrible disease. I watched my father die from it, and it broke my heart.
It’s good Rep Raskin has hope and his form of cancer is curable with the treatment he will be starting. twitter.com/FoxNews/status…
It’s official. Lincoln’s party of “liberty and Union” is now Trump’s party of violence and disunion. His cultists just called sedition, beating up cops and a coup ‘legitimate political discourse.’ They censured Cheney & Kinzinger for not bowing to the orange autocrat. Disgrace.
I must admit Kevin McCarthy has accomplished one thing. America is no longer woke.
Looking forward to Steve Bannon's deposition tomorrow and receiving all the testimony and evidence we subpoenaed.
This is a legal order as well as a civic duty to share info about the most sweeping violent attack on Congress since the War of 1812.
If you’ve had it with conspiracy theory, disinformation, fake news and propaganda, let’s stand strong for reason, science and Enlightenment values. Join Rep. Huffman and me in pushing for a #NationalDayofReason. A nation’s mind is a terrible thing to waste.
If the former president has no executive privilege to hide evidence of an attempted coup or insurrection, neither do his family or friends. If Ivanka Trump was with Donald Trump as the attack unfolded, she is a material fact witness. I look forward to her testimony.
There is great hope for America when police officers are joining the marches for justice. google.com/amp/s/www.forb
We are hearing rumors that the front row of GOP hostages behind Kevin McCarthy are asking whether they can just be censured instead.
Devastating bits of testimony tonight from Liz Cheney. Revelations that GOP lawmakers were pleading for Trump to call off the violence and commiserating over failure to complete the coup. We have a lot of questions Meadows must answer.
Two hours into Kevin McCarthy’s unhinged diatribe obstructing passage of the Build Back Better Act, Albert Einstein comes to mind: “If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.”
Steve Bannon has been convicted of acting in contempt of Congress. My argument w/ Rep. Gaetz is now settled: if subpoenaed, you show up & assert any privilege you think applies to specific questions. But you can’t blow off the proceeding.
Cipollone must be forced by CJ Roberts to correct the record and apologize or face disbarment for brazen lack of candor to the tribunal in a legal proceeding. I was in nearly every deposition and the GOP Members were always present.
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"Not even Mr. Schiff's Republican colleagues were allowed into the SCIF" -- this is a blatant lie from Cipollone
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Last seen in DC calling Pence a coward and praising the mob as “very special,” Trump now warns Rs to avoid “GIANT & EMBARRASSING DEFEAT.” Oh, like the ones he brought them in ‘18, ‘20 and ‘22? Their giant moral defeat came when Trump took control of their party.
Tried my best to overcome Acting Attorney General Whitaker's strategic evasions and filibustering to get to the facts about financial and political corruption engulfing the Administration. Watch:
I’m joining parents, students, librarians and teachers to oppose the GOP's MAGA federal power grab over local schools, a phony "Parents' Bill of Rights" designed to extend their rampant book banning and suppression of history.
It seems like Donald Trump promised to show the American people his taxes about a century ago, but now the courts have finally spoken and the law indeed catches up with even the richest—and most lawless—citizens.
A “wild” protest-turned riot surrounding a violent white nationalist insurrection to block the peaceful transfer of power surrounding a presidential coup to overthrow the 2020 election. Our January 6 inquiry is peeling back each layer of sedition.
If Alito’s majority destroys the right to privacy, states could jail women and doctors for abortion and contraception offenses. They could also COMPEL women to be sterilized for “unfitness” to reproduce, as Virginia sterilized thousands in the last century. See Buck v. Bell.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time...
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Giant win for in Eastman case. Judge Carter says Trump’s actions were likely criminal and “would have “permanently ended the peaceful transition of power” in America. He ordered Eastman to disclose docs to our Committee.
The Worst and the Dumbest: The indictment of Stewart Rhodes (Yale Law ‘04) for seditious conspiracy to help Donald Trump (UPenn ‘68) steal the presidency leaves many other Ivy League insurrectionists at large, including Steve Bannon (Harvard Business School ‘85).
Democrats are protecting women’s free choices and health care; defending democracy and national self-determination in Ukraine; guarding the right to read and the right to speak—Dems are the real Freedom Caucus. Right-wing Republicans are a Chaos Caucus.
I heard that, after seeing this speech, a bipartisan group of outraged Senate leaders are calling a midnight session to abolish the filibuster.
America must reject the GOP’s dangerous nihilism about the impossibility of separating truth from lies, a derangement brought on by Donald Trump but now infecting their whole party.
Our system of democratic governance rests on truth and facts—not lies and conspiracy theories.
Lindsey Graham's nationwide 15-week abortion ban is a dangerous escalation of the GOP’s plan to destroy women’s health care.
We won't let it pass, but we see what's coming if the theocrats take over Congress.
Pro-freedom Americans: stay vigilant.
Meantime, 16 states, including MD, are still free choice states for women. Next week I am introducing a Resolution reaffirming the fundamental right of citizens to travel interstate for the purposes of obtaining medical care in the destination state.
Sickened and horrified about another episode of antisemitic vandalism in our community, at Walt Whitman High School—on Shabbat and just before Hanukkah. Sending love and solidarity to Whitman students, families, faculty and staff. Hate won’t win in MoCo.
After showing America how not to pick a Speaker, McCarthy now shows America how not to design the Rules of the House. His Rules stack the deck for extremists & insurrectionists while turning federal workers into political targets on the House floor.
When he sent this tweet, Trump became the first president in American history to call for a protest against the peaceful transfer of power.
At tomorrow's hearing, America will see how it mobilized dangerous extremists & white nationalist groups to come armed to “Stop the Steal.”
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McCarthy & the GOP know that raising the debt ceiling is constitutionally required. That’s why they raised it 3 times while Trump added nearly 25% of our debt with his tax giveaways to the rich. Their sudden fiscal concern camouflages their plan to cut Social Security & Medicare.
We were saved on January 6, 2021 by the courage of cops, election officials, Hill staffers—true-blue patriots to the core. Let’s keep American democracy growing for all of us to honor their sacrifice and commitment. My full statement:
This week, starts sharing evidence of the chilling inside plan to overturn the 2020 election and block the constitutional transfer of power. America will see footage and records we have documenting the dangerous extremist assault on our constitutional order.
As my GOP colleagues try to block the Respect for Marriage Act, I remind them what we taught anti-gay politicians a decade ago: you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You didn't place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.
GOP "oversight" means whining about Twitter’s years-old internal decision making about a NY Post story.
Their conspiracy theory keeps them from investigating the real threats of massive Russian disinformation and white nationalist violent incitement on social media.
Devastating testimony. Sgt. Gonell attacked and unable to tell family he was alive for hours. Off. Fanone beaten unconscious. Off. Hodges told ‘you will die on your knees.’ Pfc. Dunn called the n-word repeatedly. We must ensure this nightmare never happens again.
Bending disgracefully to the will of Donald Trump, Republicans today revived their absurd effort to censure . What can you say about a party that embraces the Big Lie, insurrection and George Santos but wants to censure Adam Schiff?
The 2nd Amdt allows reasonable gun safety regulation. It does not give anyone the right to carry assault rifles, purchase a gun without a violent criminal background check or carry guns into public schools or govt buildings. SCOTUS, led by Justice Scalia, was emphatic on this.
Lauren Boebert wants to impeach President Biden for the high crime and misdemeanor of creating 13 million jobs, lowering drug prices, being pro-choice and backing Ukraine against her puppeteer’s puppeteer, Vladimir Putin. Oh and for beating her cult leader by 7 million votes.
Happy #LunarNewYear to all celebrating the Year of the Ox! Wishing everyone happiness, peace and good health in the New Year.
Always so impressed by the great poise & judgment shown by my constituent U.S. House Clerk Cheryl Johnson, whose 2 decades of service in Congress have prepared her to be our presiding officer in this difficult moment. Thanks Clerk Johnson for your fairness & unswerving devotion.
Rep. Gosar’s conduct is grotesque, dangerous and utterly disgraceful to the United States House of Representatives. We must address his intolerable assaults on the dignity of our body and safety of our colleagues.
Well, my proud "ultra MAGA" colleagues insist, alas, on their grating political grammar. But we’re not the "Democrat Party" unless they’re the "Banana Republican Party." Or just do what FDR did—he called us "the Democracy."
A beautiful ceremony unveils the official Oversight Committee portrait of the great Rep. Elijah Cummings painted by Baltimore’s own Jerrell Gibbs. Amazing.
Overturning a half-century of precedent, the Supreme Court turns a constitutional right into a crime for tens of millions of women. Its legitimacy gone, the Court should take up residence with the RNC, which defines its agenda.
Merry Christmas to festive revelers everywhere. May this precious wonderful time bring you joy, warmth and rest with family and friends.
Caving in to right-wing insurrectionists and their chaos isn't the solution. It’s the problem.
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Breaking News: Facing a third day of voting, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California offered fresh concessions to hard-right Republicans in a desperate effort to be elected House speaker.
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Organizers of Jan. 6 feeder rallies have 1 day left to comply with House subpoenas and turn over relevant records to the . Those who defy a lawful order of Congress to cover up insurrectionary violence will face referral for criminal prosecution—at the very least.
Wishing everyone a Martin Luther King Jr. Day of moral purpose. The movement he led and America he desired were the opposite of the Jan. 6 insurrection: nonviolent, pro-democracy, advancing human rights for all.
Jeffrey Clark made a play to become Trump’s AG by turning the Big Lie into DOJ policy. Now he defies a Congressional subpoena. I voted with the to refer him for criminal contempt.
Meadows, Scavino, Patel and Bannon have two days left to comply with the 's subpoenas. Each of these men should be ready and willing to protect their country against violent insurrection, but as a reminder: noncompliance with Congress invites criminal sanctions.
Democrats sent billions in aid to fortify the border last Congress, but most in the GOP voted no.
They don’t want immigration solutions; they want immigration problems to use as a partisan weapon.
Moved by Ukrainian President Zelensky’s stirring address to Congress. He and his nation are on the very front line of the global struggle to defend democracy, international law and human rights against fascist tyranny and aggression.
The U.S. will always stand with Ukraine.
I’m delighted that President Biden has announced the United We Stand Summit to reject political violence and heal America's divisions. Leaders from across the spectrum will convene to discuss how we can overcome extremism and foster safe & civil political discourse.
Kevin McCarthy promised he would give us all his wisdom about government.
At 11:30 pm, I don’t know how much wiser we are but we are definitely older.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was 275 words and less than three minutes long. Two hours and seven minutes into McCarthy’s rant, it is clear the world will little note nor long remember what he says here.
Contrary to dangerous claims from GOP colleagues, nowhere does the Constitution endorse armed resistance against our police and government.
I count at least seven times our founding document refutes and contradicts this absurd "insurrectionary theory” of the Second Amendment.
To debunk MAGA’s “insurrectionist” theory of the 2nd Amendment, just read the Constitution. Everywhere it rejects insurrection, including in the 14th Amendment which bans insurrectionists from ever holding office again. The Constitution does not provide for its own destruction.
Adoptive mothers and adoptive fathers, stepmothers and stepfathers, are all real-life loving parents. What a grotesque insult to try to diminish their place, their meaning and their love because they are not “biological.”
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Marjorie Taylor Greene says that adopted or parents through marriage aren’t real parents because they’re “not biological.” She just told a witness who is a mother through marriage that she is “not a mother.”
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More grief and suffering from California, with 7 people felled in the Half Moon Bay massacre. What kind of country are we going to be? This is a national emergency and Congress must act this week.
I wasn’t surprised to hear the Texas GOP is trying to ban politically incorrect books in schools, but was astonished to find my 2008 book We the Students on the list. It is about the constitutional rights of students and was sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society!
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A Texas law constricts teachers when it comes to race and history. Now the fierce battle over what can be taught has become something broader, an effort to curtail and even ban books, including classics of American literature.
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The name of Jim Jordan's new "Weaponization of the Federal Government" subcommittee is a psychological projection and political confession.
Their obvious—and demonstrable—purpose is to abuse the power of Congress to send Donald Trump back to the White House in 2024.
Big News: the has just subpoenaed former acting AG Jeffrey Clark.
A Senate report revealed Clark drafted a letter urging state legislatures to nullify Joe Biden’s election. We need the full story behind this attack on our constitutional democracy.
It’s official. Steve Bannon has violated a congressional subpoena and missed his opportunity—w/o jail time or court order—to come clean about the Jan. 6 insurrection. He will face the full force of the law for the smirking contempt he is showing Congress and the American people.
Wishing a happy first night of Hanukkah to everyone celebrating the Festival of Lights. May you enjoy this time of peace and joy with your family and friends.
One year of Putin’s filthy war of imperial aggression to destroy Ukrainian democracy has clarified the stakes for the world. It’s the autocrats, kleptocrats and dictators against freedom, the rule of law and human rights. Ukraine must win for democracy to prevail.
Any on-duty taxpayer-paid public school football coach who invites students to pray with him at the 50-yard line is abusing his official power to endorse religion and proselytize. SCT is piling up bad decisions now, destroying its own legitimacy.
I strongly support students speaking up, rallying, walking out, chanting, demanding passage of gun safety. Any politician who favors compulsory school attendance along with easy gun laws is setting young people up for disaster. Senate must act!
This is a brazen violation of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses. The President may not receive one dollar from a “King, Prince or foreign State” without obtaining Congressional consent and he may not accept “any other Emolument from the United States” beyond his salary.
The racist, antisemitic and deadly "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory has energized domestic terrorists nationwide, but when I asked my Republican colleagues at our Oversight hearing to renounce and disavow it, they quickly changed the subject. Why?
By a vote of 223-205, the House just passed our 25th Amendment Resolution urging Vice President Pence to convene and mobilize the Cabinet to act on the crisis of President Trump’s incapacity. He is clearly incapable of meeting the duties of his office.
We saw devastating evidence against Trump and powerful testimony from witnesses Van Tatenhove and Ayres about the meaning of the Big Lie and extremist propaganda. Trump’s “American carnage” on full display.
Today will expose how Donald Trump tried to weaponize the Department of Justice in his desperate bid to retain power. Watch at 3pm ET as witnesses, including the former Acting Attorney General, reveal how Trump nearly made the Big Lie DOJ policy.
When our subcommittee held the first hearing on Big Oil's climate denialism, we learned Exxon knew the basic science of climate change 40 years ago but waged a war of deception that cost precious time in the fight to save humanity.
Headed to the president's desk: America's most powerful response to the civilizational threat of climate change in our history, and a massive investment in our human infrastructure.
What makes the Inflation Reduction Act so transformational?
The explosive revelation that FBI cyber intelligence spy McGonigal was on the take from the Russian oligarch behind Putin’s disinformation campaign against America illuminates more about how Trump came to power, why he shook down Zelensky, and Putin’s imperialist war on Ukraine.
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In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20
Millions of Americans rely on Social Security, the jewel of American government.
As a proud cosponsor of the Social Security 2100 Act, I’m working to enhance benefits and protect this essential program for our people.
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Democrats oppose all forms of political violence, but
GOP refuses to denounce deadly violence against abortion clinics while denouncing vandalism of pregnancy crisis centers. Telling contrast.