Once the two Democratic winners of Georgia’s Senate runoff races are sworn in, around January 20, the two parties will each hold 50 seats in the Senate. On the face of it, that means the Democrats will control the chamber, since the Constitution gives the vice president a vote on the floor when the Senate

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar speaks during a news briefing on the administration’s response to the coronavirus at the White House in Washington, March 15, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar submitted his resignation in a letter to President Trump on January 12, citing the pro-Trump riot at

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S uddenly there is enthusiasm over the prospect of prosecutions for seditious conspiracy, which was made a federal crime during the Civil War and is now codified by Section 2384 of the federal penal code. Last summer, when then-attorney general Bill Barr touted the statute as a potential vehicle for prosecuting violent

President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews Md., January 12, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Ten days and what feels like an eternity ago, I looked at some of the headwinds that would face a “Trump TV” effort, starting with the likelihood of lawsuits if Trump, on his

Pro-life activists carry a banner during the the 47th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Citing concerns about COVID-19, the leadership of the March for Life has announced that the annual anti-abortion march in Washington, D.C., will not take place this year. Instead, the usual pro-life rally will be

1. Here are Corey Johnson’s last words. “I am not the same man that I was,” he said, after apologizing to the families of his victims and listing their names. He then thanked prison staff, his attorneys, and his minister. pic.twitter.com/GjXapN6Fgb — elizabeth bruenig (@ebruenig) January 15, 2021 2. The New York Times: The Maddening

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a bipartisan panel directed by Congress to monitor the human-rights situation in China, released its annual report this week. Among other commendable ideas, this one stands out. The CECC calls for: Protecting any U.S. citizen fired for expressing opinions critical of Chinese

A toilet bowl. ( Rawf8/Getty Images) Observations on what seems to be a Trump family obsession. What is it with these people and toilets? Donald Trump is, of course, a class-A strange-o, a man whose youngest son is named after the imaginary friend he invented to lie to the New York gossip pages about who

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A merican Christianity is and has always been a broad church. The same week that a band of Christian nationalists knelt and prayed before storming the Capitol building — shouting, too, at journalists (with unintended irony) “get the hell out of my way!” — a black Baptist preacher was elected on a

A volunteer is injected with a vaccine as he participates in a coronavirus vaccination study at the Research Centers of America, in Hollywood, Fla., September 24, 2020. (Marco Bello/Reuters) President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an emergency plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday evening, focusing on economic aid and boosting vaccine production and distribution. The

Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney President Donald Trump, holds what he identified as a replica mail-in ballot as he speaks about the 2020 election results in Washington, D.C., November 19, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Loyalty, to Donald Trump, has always been a one-way street. But even so it’s gobsmacking to read a report (in the Washington Post)

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy holds a news conference at the U.S Capitol, January 30, 2020. (Amanda Voisard/Reuters) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) opposes calls to reject Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) from caucus leadership, a McCarthy spokesman told The Washington Examiner on Thursday. Cheney is the House Republican Conference Chair, and the third-highest

People stand in front of Building 10 behind Killian Court at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., November 21, 2018. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and researcher who has received almost $20 million from the Department of Energy was arrested Thursday after he allegedly failed to disclose ties to

President Donald Trump departs the White House on travel to visit the U.S.-Mexico border Wall in Texas, January 12, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Salesforce, the company that owns the email marketing firm used by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee to send emails, said recently they had “taken action” against the RNC to “prevent its

Rep. John Katko (R-NY) questions FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor as he testifies before a House Committee on Homeland Security meeting on the national response to the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill, July 22, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via Reuters) Ten Republicans crossed party lines on Wednesday to vote in favor of impeaching President Trump over his rhetoric

Wind-turbine generators in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., 2011. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) Writing from the U.K. in an article for CapX, Bill Blain (who “absolutely believe[s] climate change is the biggest challenge humanity faces”), takes a look at wind power and other renewables and is not impressed:  The brutal reality is offshore wind is far less efficient

Columns of the Supreme Court building with the U.S. Capitol in the background. (Getty Images) In my homepage article on the constitutionality of holding an impeachment trial of a former president, I mention in passing that former judge Michael Luttig thinks that if one were to happen, the former president would bring a constitutional challenge

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.) departs after voting on impeachment against President Trump at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., January 13, 2021. (Joshua Robert/Reuters) The House voted Wednesday to impeach President Trump over his role in the deadly Capitol riot, making him the only president to be impeached twice. The House voted largely along

Protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) The better life becomes for the vast majority of Americans — and it is better by nearly every quantifiable measure — the angrier, more disgruntled, and more radicalized people seem to get. We see it in the

(Pixabay) Axios’s Mike Allen has called Big Tech “the fourth branch of government” because of its recent concerted and successful shutdown of President Trump’s ability to communicate on social media. He seems pleased. From, “How CEOs Became the 4th Branch of Government”: CEOs managed to act as a faster and more effective check on the

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE B ecause Donald Trump’s conduct pushes so many envelopes, he attracts a constant stream of creative interpretations of the Constitution and the federal criminal code from people looking for a magic bullet to take him down. I’ve previously explained why Trump can be impeached even after leaving office, and why it might

I write here, of course, from the magazine that invented “Never Trump,” with our cover during the primaries. One of the chief reasons I couldn’t vote for Donald Trump is the ugly way he talks about human beings. That said, I underestimated how many people may have voted for him because of his rough, threatening,

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) conducts a news conference at the U.S. Capitol, December 1, 2020. (Tom Williams/Pool via Reuters) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is reportedly pleased about efforts by Democrats to impeach President Trump a second time, saying he believes the move will make it easier for Republicans to purge Trump from

President Trump speaks during a rally in Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) House Republican leaders will not formally lobby their caucus against voting to impeach President Trump, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The decision comes after Trump incited a mob of his supporters to demonstrate outside the U.S. Capitol on January

President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One to depart Washington on travel to Texas, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, January 12, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump said Tuesday that Democrats’ second attempt to impeach him over last week’s violence at the Capitol is causing “tremendous anger.” “It’s really a

President Donald Trump gestures while campaigning for Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler on the eve of the run-off election in Dalton, Ga., January 4, 2021. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) President Trump acknowledged that he is somewhat at fault for his supporters’ decision to storm the U.S. Capitol last week in a conversation with House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy,

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, September 23, 2020. (Greg Nash/Pool via Reuters) Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf resigned on Monday, making him the third Cabinet-level official to quit the Trump administration since the violence at the

Trump loyalists gather at the U.S. Capitol on the fateful day of January 6, 2021. (Jim Bourg / Reuters) There have always been coat-and-tie Marxists, who would never get their hands dirty — who would never smash heads themselves — but who encourage it in others, to one degree or another. Obviously, there are such

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s I wrote last Thursday, Donald Trump should be held morally and politically responsible for the riot that interrupted Congress from counting the electoral votes as mandated by the Constitution and forced his own vice president and members of Congress to flee for their lives. True, the rioters are also responsible

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media in Washington, D.C., November 24, 2020. (Saul Loeb/Reuters) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the U.S. is re-designating Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, citing its harboring of terrorists. “The Trump Administration has been focused from the start on denying the Castro regime