Here is NBC News: The Senate on Thursday night passed the most sweeping gun bill designed to prevent gun violence in decades, a major victory for advocates and a rare defeat for the National Rifle Association. The vote was 65 to 33, with all...
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Has Mitt Romney betrayed his party?
Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen thinks so: Trump acolytes have long labeled Sen. Mitt Romney a “RINO” — “Republican in Name Only.” This is an unfair charge, given Romney’s conservative credentials. But Romney is lending credence to his critics by not endorsing his...
Episode 16: “The Massachusetts Legislature Holds a Constitutional Convention”
Opponents of same-sex marriage in the Bay State try to pass a constitutional amendment Episode 16: “The Massachusetts Legislature Holds a Constitutional Convention” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this narrative history podcast. Here’s a teaser:...
Only six Republican senators voted for a commission to study the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol since the War of 1812
It looks like American historians will need to do the work. John Hope Franklin once called historians “the conscience of the nation.” A Senate vote on a bill to create an independent commission to study the January 6, 2021 insurrection...
Romney on 2024 GOP presidential nominee: Trump “wins in a landslide”
Sadly, Mitt is probably correct. On the other hand, as Romney notes, a lot can change between now and 2024. But will a Trump candidacy in 2024 give the party a chance of winning the general election? I don’t think...
The GOP still loves Trump
A Morning Consult poll found that a majority of Republicans would support him in 2024 primary run. They prefer Trump by far over Mike Pence, Donald Trump Jr., Nikki Haley, Mitt Romney, Mike Pompeo, Kristi Noem, Tim Scott, Rick Scott,...
Mitt Romney: Deep state agent?
Some members of the Utah GOP want g to censure Mitt Romney, the 2012 presidential nominee of the Republican Party. A lot can happen in a decade. Here is a draft of the censure that is circulated online (boldface is...
The seven GOP Senators who voted to convict Trump were unafraid of political retribution
Here is Catie Edmundson at The New York Times: …the senators were united by a common thread: Each of them, for their own reasons, was unafraid of political retribution from Mr. Trump or his supporters. “Two are retiring, and three...
SNL’s Colin Jost and Michael Che on the absurdity of the Trump impeachment trial
Funny and true:...
Trump is acquitted by a vote of 57-43 in the United States Senate
Fifty-seven U.S. Senators voted to convict Donald Trump in his impeachment trial. But it was not enough. Sixty-seven voters were needed to convict. Here are the GOP members who broke with their party and voted to convict Donald Trump in...