Alabama’s Richard Shelby among few senators to have participated in three impeachments
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
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The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is bringing back college memories for Angi Stalnaker and a lesson she learned from a beloved political science professor at the University of Alabama.
She recalled her professor, Bill Stewart, writing down the names of the Republican and Democratic senators who, prior to the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, indicated how they would vote before the trial started. Those who did have their minds made up beforehand, Stalnaker recalls Stewart saying, “violated their oaths.”
Cruz’s bid to annul Biden win tees him up for 2024, but don’t rule out rivals who’ll affirm Trump defeat
GOP senators on both sides of Wednesday’s Electoral College showdown claim moral high ground that might appeal to voters in the next presidential race.
Updated at noon Wednesday with O’Rourke comments.
WASHINGTON Wednesday’s showdown over Joe Biden’s election will shape the 2024 presidential race, with likely GOP contenders grabbing the spotlight and some, like Sen. Ted Cruz, positioning themselves as the Trumpiest pugilist of them all by trying to somehow annul the result.
Others, such as Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, invoke fidelity to the rule of law in rejecting pleas for Congress to second-guess the Electoral College.