Concerns about right-wing extremist groups recruiting police officers predate the presidency of Donald Trump. But the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, in which more than two dozen police officers are under investigation for their alleged participation, has cast a shadow on the seemingly hands-off approach to the threat posed by a pro-Trump protest. Critics say police departments are biased in how they handle protests by right-wing groups that claim to be pro-police.
Larger failures of imagination, added to biases of individual police officers, is part of what analysts say makes radicalization among officers possible. Then there’s an apparent institutional discomfort to confront the problem publicly. In its reporting to Congress it has lumped in antifa, an anti-fascist movement, with right-wing extremists like Boogaloos. But in recent years, lethal threats to law enforcement have primarily come from right-wing extremists.
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Texas state Rep. Kyle Biedermann, a Republican, says he will introduce the bill for a referendum as early as this week on whether Texas should assert its independence from the United States.
The notion, which has been batted around Texas for generations, looms much larger now in the wake of the violence in the U.S. capital.
While baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election have sowed discord in the country, advocates of a Texit insist the effort is not about Trump. It s being dismissed as a fringe phenomena, until the moment where it surprises everybody and becomes mainstream, said Richard Kreitner, a secession expert. I think it s going to be the story of the 2020s.
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political interests. that informs their judgment. the impartial party here is justice roberts. all these other jurors, as it were, are senators with c constituencies for whom they represent. so they are to behave in that manner. and in that sense, it s just like any other day in the senate. is that exactly how you see it? i mean, we know how vague, robert, all of this is laid out. so, you know, we have this argument where on one side, you have republicans who are saying, look, let s do it the way we did it back in 1999 with president clinton. where essentially, we laid out the the case for and against impeachment. and then we decided whether or not we were going to allow anybody to testify. what guidance do we really have? and what about politics versus actually following the constitution? well, i don t think it s quite true that the senators can just practice politics as usual. the last two times that we ve been through this as a country,