The resolution adopted last week marks the first time in print that the Republican Party’s governing body has normalized political violence.
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House Jan. 6 committee subpoenas fake Trump electors from 7 states
The panel is demanding information and testimony from 14 people who it says allegedly met and submitted false Electoral College certificates falsely declaring Trump the winner in their states.
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Our View: Legacy of Jan. 6 should be voting rights
If Maine Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans continue to block these protections, then the mob will have won.
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Leonard Pitts: Jan. 6 insurrection a dress rehearsal for something far worse
The refusal to hold rioters accountable, the passage of new voter suppression laws and the installation of Trump loyalists in state electoral posts don’t bode well.
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Jan. 6 panel requests an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity
A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection wants to question him regarding his communications with Donald Trump, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and others in Trump’s orbit in the days surrounding the insurrection.
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Appeals court weighs Trump arguments to withhold Jan. 6 records
A panel of judges focused most of the hearing Tuesday on what role federal courts should have when an incumbent president and former president are at odds over records from the former’s administration.
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‘QAnon shaman’ sentenced to nearly 3½ years in prison for role in Capitol riot
Jacob Chansley, 34, was photographed parading shirtless through the halls of the Capitol with a 6-foot spear, howling through a bullhorn and then sitting in the vice president’s chair in the Senate.
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Leonard Pitts: ‘Blonde hair white skin’ did work in Jan. 6 rioter’s favor
Jenna Ryan predicted she wouldn’t be jailed. She was wrong – but that doesn’t undercut her point about color-coded justice.
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Our View: Maine’s Sen. King sounds alarm on democracy in danger
We are in a constitutional crisis in which false claims of voter fraud can undermine faith in elections, the independent senator said.
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Jan. 6 panel votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt
The committee’s chairman says that while Bannon may be ‘willing to be a martyr to the disgraceful cause of whitewashing what happened on January 6th,’ the contempt vote is a warning to other witnesses.