Failed Democratic congressional candidate Rita Hart is pushing onward with a challenge to her lost election last fall to freshman Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks who was sat in the lower chamber in January. Miller-Meeks was certified the winner by state election officials by six votes.
Hart, however, bypassed state avenues for challenging elections and instead appealed her case directly to the House of Representatives, which may determine its own membership. House Democrats on the Administration Committee greenlit a probe into the Iowa contest Wednesday.
On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who chose in December to seat Miller-Meeks despite the ongoing challenge launched by Hart, threatened there’s still a chance the House would overturn the Iowa result to add one more Democrat to a razor-thin majority. Pelosi currently presides over the slimmest majority of her congressional career with a nine-vote advantage over House Republicans.
The Political Insider reports, Failed Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) went on CNN on Wednesday to blast President Donald Trump over his latest round of pardons. The Democratic senator went so far as to claim that Trump is “literally burning down the house of justice as he walks out the door” with these pardons, which she claims are being handed down to people mostly related to him and “his own political interests.” She called Trump’s pardons “a travesty.”
Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: