Cotton brought up his amendment roughly 11 hours into the Senate s vote-a-rama to create a point of order against any future legislation that would expand the Supreme Court.
Had Cotton been successful, it could have given Republicans a foothold in the Senate rules to challenge court expansion legislation going forward; it would have inserted into the Senate rules that it was out of order to consider such legislation, thereby requiring three-fifths of the Senate to vote to overturn
that if a senator wanted to bring up such a bill.
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Cotton pointed to calls from some progressives to expand the Supreme Court when introducing his amendment.
Governor Kate Brown and Senator Jeff Merkley released statements on Wednesday after the swearing-in of President Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States.
Jan. 20, 2021
Donald Trump will walk out of the White House and board Marine One for the last time as president Wednesday morning, with a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly divided in his wake. Where the Republican Party goes from here is an open question as Trump reportedly is floating starting his own party, that he would call the “Patriot Party” as senior GOP leadership turns on him.
Trump leaves four years after standing on stage at his own inauguration and painting a dire picture of “American carnage,” Trump departs the office twice impeached, with millions more out of work and 400,000 dead from the coronavirus. Republicans under his watch lost the presidency and both chambers of Congress. He will be forever remembered for the final major act of his presidency: inciting an insurrection at the Capitol that left five dead, including a Capitol Police officer, and horrified the nation.
Governor Kate Brown and Senator Jeff Merkley released statements on Wednesday after the swearing-in of President Joe Biden alluding to a bill that would overhaul voting in the U.S.
Pro-Trump Enemies of the People doxing site is still active
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Enemies of the People, the website inciting violence against U.S. officials who refused to support the President s claims to voter fraud, is still active and continues to expose personal details from more individuals.
The main site went offline shortly before a report from the FBI emerged saying that Iranian actors were almost certainly behind the campaign but just days after the New Year, it was back up publishing personal information.
FBI is on the case
In a new PSA on Friday, the FBI alerted that Enemies of the People operations are ongoing and that the actors are threatening the lives of U.S. federal, state, and private sector officials using direct email and text messaging.