Va. senators weigh in on Trump second impeachment trial
Va. senators weigh in on Trump second impeachment trial By Alana Austin | February 11, 2021 at 5:29 PM EST - Updated February 11 at 9:01 PM
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Virginia Democratic Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine are still weighing the evidence of the historic second impeachment trial against former President Donald Trump. While they sit as jurors in the Senate this week, both at the end of the day say Trump bears responsibility for the violent storming of the Capitol.
“I want our country to move forward. I want there to be unity. But there’s also got to be some accountability,” Warner said.
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By the end of last year, there were few better symbols of bad-faith politics than Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that gives online platforms legal immunity for user-generated content. After a fairly sleepy existence since its passage in 1996, Section 230 turned into an unlikely rallying cry for a subset of Republican politicians who disingenuously blamed it for letting social media platforms discriminate against conservatives. (In fact, the law has nothing to do with partisan balance, and if anything allows platforms to keep more right-wing content up than they otherwise would.) Down the home stretch of his reelection campaign, Donald Trump began dropping Section 230 references into his stump speeches. The whole thing culminated with a pair of depressing Senatehearings that, while nominally about Section 230, were little more than PR stunts designed for Ted Cruz to get clips of himself berati
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaks during a Tuesday news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)
WASHINGTON (CN) Setting the stage for a final veto showdown to close out President Donald Trump’s single term, the Republican-led Senate voted 84-13 Friday in favor of a $740 billion defense-spending bill.
Trump is expected to veto the bill over various faults he finds in it, chief among them a provision forming a federally backed commission devoted to renaming and removing military installations named after darlings of the Confederacy. Trump has called the maneuver an affront to the nation’s history.