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☆ U.S. Congress' Jan. 6 hearing postponed due to hurricane
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Leaders of the U.S. congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol said the panel had postponed a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, citing the threat to the state of Florida by a major hurricane. In a statement on Tuesday, the Democratic chairperson, Bennie Thompson, and Republican vice chairperson, Liz Cheney, did not announce a new date for the House of Representatives Select Committee's hearing. "In light of Hurricane Ian bearing down on parts of Florida, we have decided to postpone tomorrow’s proceedings. The Select Committee’s investigation goes forward and we will soon announce a date for the postponed proceedings," Thompson and Cheney said in a statement. read moreThompson had said he expected the hearing would be the last from the Democratic-led panel.

The committee had been planning to hold another hearing on Wednesday but postponed it due to the hurricane approaching Florida. “Nothing provided by the Jan. 6 committee can be considered credible, or unedited or not manipulated," Stone told NBC News Tuesday. The committee has also obtained a trove of Secret Service documents from the period around the Jan. 6 attack. "I think it’s certainly something that will be explored," at the hearing, said the committee member who requested anonymity. “We all swore the same oath to the Constitution,” Cheney told NBC News in a statement, responding to the GOP criticism she’s faced.

☆ A top member of the Oath Keepers texted with Rudy Giuliani's son about the 2020 election, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A top member of the Oath Keepers texted Andrew Giuliani about election issues, per NBC News. Ex-GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman told NBC News it's "so important" for the public to know about such links. Since the message was sent to a switchboard line at the White House, it was undeliverable. Andrew Giuliani told NBC News that he last communicated with SoRelle on November 20, 2020. "Until you mentioned her, until I looked it up, it didn't really ring a bell," Giuliani told the news organization.

☆ Factbox: Eight U.S. Senate races to watch in November's midterm elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor and U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman speaks during a rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 24, 2022. The chamber is currently split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, who are able to control the agenda thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote. The state is a former Republican stronghold where Democrats have made surprise gains in recent elections - Biden won the state by 0.3% in 2020. Masters' struggles have led Republicans to pull funding and analysts have shifted their predictions for the race in Kelly's favor. National groups have been pouring in money, and the topic of abortion is front and center since the state's Republican legislature banned all abortions after six weeks.

A high-ranking member of the far-right Oath Keepers organization who has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol exchanged messages in November 2020 with former Trump White House aide Andrew Giuliani about election issues. That text message went to a White House switchboard line, so it could not be delivered. Andrew Giuliani told NBC News that the last contact with SoRelle on his phone was on Nov. 10, 2020. “None of that was like ‘Hey, we should go storm the Capitol,’” SoRelle told NBC News. The panel will hold its next public hearing on Wednesday, the second day of jury selection in the Oath Keeper's trial.

☆ A Capitol rioter who received phone call from the White House on Jan. 6 was identified as a 26-year-old Trump-loving New Yorker who joked about shooting Nancy Pelosi
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

CNN revealed the identity of a Capitol rioter who received a phone call from the White House on Jan. 6Anton Lunyk, 26, pleaded guilty to one riot-related charge earlier this year. According to CNN, Lunyk claims to not remember getting the call. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox. Anton Lunyk, 26, had already left the Capitol premises that day when his phone rang at 4:34 p.m., according to records reviewed by the outlet. The revelation of Lunyk's identity as the mysterious call recipient comes after a former technical advisor to the the House Select Committee investigating the insurrection said Friday that he traced a call between a rioter and the White House switchboard during the attack.

☆ An advisor to the January 6 committee said Mark Meadows' texts provide 'irrefutable' proof of a comprehensive plot to overturn the 2020 election
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Denver Riggleman said texts from Mark Meadows showed a "roadmap" to overturning the election. Meadows was receiving texts about the alternate electors plot just days after the election. He said Meadows' texts showed a "roadmap" for how allies of former President Donald Trump were trying to overturn the election. Host Bill Whitaker asked Riggleman to confirm his belief that Meadows' texts "provide irrefutable, time-stamped proof of a comprehensive plot at all levels of government to overturn the election." Insider previously compiled a list of all the texts Meadows had received while the January 6 insurrection was unfolding.

Laura Kelly, a Democrat, is fighting a tough re-election battle— the issue is almost nowhere to be seen. “What Kelly is doing makes perfect sense," said Bob Beatty, a political science professor at Washburn University in Topeka. “I think the abortion vote is possibly very instructive nationally, and for other states, but not for Kansas,” Beatty said. Doing so also allows Kelly and her campaign to avoid wading into the violent history surrounding abortion rights activism in the state. Still, at a debate between the two candidates at the Kansas State Fair earlier this month, Schmidt accused Kelly of supporting abortion “up until the moment of birth,” which is not accurate.

☆ An advisor to the January 6 committee said he traced a call from a rioter's phone to the White House while the Capitol was under siege
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Jan. 6 rioter held a phone call with someone stationed in the White House on the day of the riot. An advisor with the Jan. 6 committee said that he traced a call from a rioter to the White House. He told CBS that he felt that the call couldn't have been accidental and wanted to dig deeper. Riggleman said in the interview that he wasn't able to confirm who in the White House was on the other line. White House call logs obtained by the Washington Post showed that there was a seven-hour gap in the records available for January 6.

REUTERS/Marco Bello/File PhotoSept 16 (Reuters) - Thirty-six of the 50 states will elect governors in November's U.S. midterm elections. His opponent is Charlie Crist, a former Republican governor who switched parties and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat. GEORGIARepublican Governor Brian Kemp faces Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams in a rematch of the state's close 2018 gubernatorial election. If elected, Abrams would be the first Black woman to serve as governor in the United States. MAINERecent opinion polls show Maine Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat, leading her Republican opponent, Paul LePage, who served as governor of the state from 2011 to 2019.

☆ Millennials and Gen Z want to stop a climate catastrophe. But first they have to get elected.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +24 min

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, told young climate activists in 2019, "You didn't vote for me." AP Photo/Gemunu AmarasingheBut most policy debates aren't genuinely existential in the way climate change is. "Younger Democrats tend to have a much more friendly relationship and response to the party's activist class than older Democrats do." Fossil-fuel interests have played a central role in stymieing progress on climate change for decades. Nearly a decade later, Trump ran for and won the presidency — with Gingrich's early and staunch support — while calling climate change a "hoax."

REUTERS/Nate RaymondBOSTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday said they reached an agreement to drop criminal charges filed during the Trump administration against a Massachusetts judge accused of impeding a federal immigration arrest of a defendant in her courtroom. Federal prosecutors said they had agreed to dismiss the obstruction charges filed against Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph in exchange for the judge referring herself to a state commission tasked with investigating judicial misconduct. Prosecutors are also dropping obstruction charges against her former courtroom deputy, Wesley MacGregor, who entered into a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve a remaining perjury count. Prosecutors claimed Joseph and MacGregor in 2018 helped a previously deported state court defendant evade being detained by an ICE agent by allowing him leave their Newton courthouse through a rear door. "I have concluded that the interests of justice are best served by review of this matter before the body that oversees the conduct of Massachusetts state court judges, rather than in a continued federal criminal prosecution," Cunha said.

☆ Video Footage Shows Trump Ally Examining Georgia Voting Equipment
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Jan Wolfe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

This Jan. 7, 2021, image taken from a Coffee County, Ga., security video, appears to show Republican official Cathy Latham, center with white hair, introducing local election officials to a computer forensic team hired by an ally of former President Donald Trump. WASHINGTON—A former Republican Party official helped a computer forensics firm inspect voting equipment in Georgia and then made misleading statements under oath about her role in the episode, voting-rights activists alleged in a new court filing. The court filing, which includes time-stamped screenshots of surveillance footage, describes what happened inside the Coffee County elections office on Jan. 7, 2021, an episode that is being investigated by law-enforcement agencies in the state.

☆ New York AG Letitia James announces lawsuit of Donald Trump, his company and family members over fraud claims
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has been conducting a civil investigation of former President Donald Trump's company, announced a major lawsuit of Trump, three of his adult children and his company over widespread fraud claims. James' announcement comes nearly a week after The New York Times reported that she had rejected an offer from Trump's lawyers to settle her probe of the Trump Organization, which is based in Manhattan. Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and accused James, who is a Democrat, of being motivated by politics to investigate the former Republican president. He invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 440 times in refusing to answer questions under oath. Donald Trump Jr., who runs the Trump Organization with his brother Eric, answered questions from the investigators under oath earlier in August, as did their sister Ivanka Trump.

Of the more than 11,000 documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, about 100 have classified markings. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"Plaintiff again implies that he could have declassified the records before leaving office. Federal prosecutors in their filing to the appeals court highlighted that Trump's attorneys had resisted Dearie's request. As one of his defenses, Trump has claimed on social media posts without evidence that he declassified the records. Trump is a former president and the records do not belong to him.

REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstWASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is planning to hold its next hearing on Sept. 28, the panel's chairman said on Tuesday. Representative Bennie Thompson told reporters he expected the public hearing would be the panel's last, unless something else happens. A spokesman for the Select Committee declined comment, saying he had no schedule updates to report. The Department of Justice is conducting its own investigation about efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Alistair BellOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Poll: GOP is winning on the economy, immigration; Democrats are ahead on abortion and health care
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Chuck-Todd-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Chuck Todd | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

... And Joe O’Dea pitches himself as pro-abortion rights in Colorado Senate while Democrats push back. The Republican Party holds all-time high advantages on the economy, crime and border security, while the Democrats have an all-time high on abortion and a double-digit edge on health care. Midterm roundup: Trump hits the trail in OhioFormer President Donald Trump traveled to Ohio over the weekend to boost GOP Senate hopeful J.D. Not every GOP Senate candidate is eager to campaign with Trump. It’s a position on abortion that is different from that of his fellow Republican Senate candidates, many of whom favor stricter bans with few exceptions.

☆ Herschel Walker says he's a 'country boy' and 'not that smart' ahead of debate against Raphael Warnock: 'I will do my best'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Georgia Senate hopeful Herschel Walker called himself a "country boy" who's "not that smart." Walker predicted that Sen. Raphael Warnock is going to "embarrass" him in their debate next month. "I'm just waiting to show up and I will do my best," Walker told Savannah Morning News. The two are expected to face off on the debate stage on October 14 in Savannah, Georgia. A new Quinnipiac University poll released last Wednesday showed Walker trailing Warnock by six percentage points.

☆ Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-31 | by ( Grace Panetta | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

Whether it happens, he said, is highly dependent on Republicans' success winning state legislatures during the 2022 midterm elections. But not everyone in the conservative constitutional convention movement believes such a gathering is so imminent. Constitutional convention boosters include many of Trump's current and former allies, including conservative legal scholar John Eastman, Florida Gov. In 2012, the Republican National Committee went so far as to pass a resolution formally opposing the convention movement. A convention of states would be the first of its kind since the original Constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

☆ Liz Cheney supporters say they are the 'silent majority' in Wyoming as Trump tries to oust her from Congress
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-07 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming is in an intense political battle to hold on to her seat in Congress. "The people who hate Liz Cheney will gladly stand at their pulpit and scream it to the ends of the world," Landon Brown, a state lawmaker who supports Cheney, told Insider. And I do believe when it comes to Liz Cheney and the rest of the Republican Party, there's gonna be some pretty damning upsets." Anytime that we needed her, her help, she was there," Pete Obermueller, president of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, told Insider. The Wyoming Republican Party also censured her, and later voted to no longer recognize her as a Republican.

☆ We found at least 25 ex-Gaetz staffers who don't mention the congressman by name on their LinkedIn page
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-20 | by ( Robin Bravender | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Gaetz's name is absent from McFaul's LinkedIn page, too, where he describes his duties during that time working as a chief of staff for an unnamed "congressman." At least 25 of Gaetz's former congressional staffers don't mention the Republican congressman by name on their LinkedIn pages, according to an Insider analysis. McFaul declined to comment about why Gaetz's name wasn't on his LinkedIn page or his Ballard bio page. She also worked for Miller, Gaetz's congressional predecessor, but doesn't name him on her LinkedIn page, either. Drew Angerer/Getty Images'Riding the wave'Some current and former Gaetz staffers continue to publicize their work for the congressman.

☆ New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney hit with congressional ethics complaint over stock sale disclosures
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-13 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust is asking for an ethics probe of Rep. Sean Maloney. Insider first reported Maloney was months late in publicly disclosing the sale of eight stocks in potential violation of federal law. The New York Democratic congressman's office said the late filing was an "oversight" and promised to pay any fines. They include former Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, former Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, former Democratic Rep. Donna Shalala of Florida, and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. Former Rep. Chris Collins, a New York Republican, briefly served time in federal prison following an insider-trading scandal that ended his political career.

☆ Could Trump mass-pardon his supporters who rioted at the Capitol? Constitutional-law experts weigh in.
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-11 | by ( Dave Levinthal | Kayla Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The January 6th attack by a mob of his supporters on the Capitol raises the question of whether Trump could pardon them. Trump has the power to broadly pardon the rioters for federal crimes, even before they are charged, experts told Insider. He has repeatedly wielded them to help his political allies who have been charged or convicted of federal crimes. Trump supporters inside the Capitol after shattering doors and windows to get in. That's where Pelosi went with a question about Trump's pardon powers during a 60 Minutes interview broadcast on Sunday.

☆ EXCLUSIVE: Jared Kushner helped create a Trump campaign shell company that secretly paid the president's family members and spent $617 million in reelection cash, a source tells Insider
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-18 | by ( Tom Lobianco | Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

American Made Media Consultants became the source of consternation for President Donald Trump's campaign staff, who were kept in the dark about its operations. Despite its $617 million spending through AMMC, the Trump campaign publicly disclosed little information about the company, including how it used the money. Insider independently verified details of this person's account with other people close to the Trump campaign. The shell company — incorporated as American Made Media Consultants Corp. and American Made Media Consultants LLC — allowed Trump's campaign to skirt federally mandated disclosures. "Nothing was done without Jared's approval," the former Trump campaign advisor said.

☆ Prosecutors support probation for ex-Trump campaign official Rick Gates, who helped Mueller probe
▼ + stars: | 2019-12-10 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Rick Gates, former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump, exits Federal Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. Gates is a former business partner of Paul Manafort, who served for several months as chief of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Gates served on that campaign as well, and on Trump's inaugural committee. Gates later testified at the trials of Manafort, Trump's long-time friend Roger Stone and Washington lawyer Greg Craig, who had served under two Democratic presidents. Prosecutors in their filing Tuesday wrote, "Since entering a guilty plea in February 2018, the defendant, Richard W. Gates III, has provided the government with extraordinary assistance," prosecutors wrote.

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