The remarks come after the introduction of the immigration proposal, which seeks to deliver on a list of Biden’s campaign promises, including providing a path to citizenship for the young people brought to the U.S by their parents as children, allowing immigrant farmworkers and those with Temporary Protected Status to swiftly obtain green cards and allowing undocumented immigrants to apply for green cards after five years.
The bill has garnered broad opposition from Republicans, though some in the GOP support specific aspects of the legislation, raising the prospect that the proposal could be broken up to deliver smaller victories.
The mighty effort to get over the Donald Trump
For the Never Trumpers, who had been hiding under camouflage for the past four years, it was in all respects a dismal showing. Even with the president gone and virtually the entire media slinging muck at him as if he had personally stormed into the Capitol and killed five people (at least four of the five who died were his supporters), only seven Republican senators threw a dart at the ex-president’s back and voted to convict him of the spurious charge of inciting an insurrection.
It is worrisome that anyone would have voted to find him guilty. Incitement is a well-defined legal concept; Trump’s Jan. 6 speech and prior conduct does not meet any of the criteria for it. An insurrection is the violent overthrow of authority, and there is not one scintilla of evidence that Trump desired that. The 57 senators who voted to convict him of an incitement he did not utter to an act he did not wish, for the purpose of removing him from an o
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Blanchard is the first Republican to officially jump into what is expected to be a crowded GOP primary in the race to fill the solidly red seat that Shelby has held since 1987. In a nearly three-minute-long video announcing her campaign, Blanchard cast herself as an outsider and fierce defender of former President Trump.
“I’m a Christian conservative and business builder, a mother of eight wonderful children. I’m a proud member of the MAGA movement. Like you, I’m grateful for the leadership and courage of our 45th president, Donald Trump,” she said over video of her driving a truck emblazoned with a Trump campaign sticker. “Today, I begin a new journey: a bid to earn your trust and your vote to serve as the next United States senator from our great state.”