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Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry, now the acting speaker, declared the House in recess until both parties can decide on a path forward. There is no obvious successor to lead the House Republican majority now that McCarthy has opted not to run for the job again. Immediately after the vote, McHenry, a close McCarthy ally, was named temporary speaker or speaker pro tempore. McCarthy turned over that private list to the House clerk in January when he was first elected speaker. Some members left the chamber Tuesday determined to renominate McCarthy and vote for him for speaker until it passes.

Persons: Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, McCarthy, Patrick McHenry, Here's, McHenry, Steve Scalise, Tom Emmer, Kevin Hern, Jim Jordan, Lisa Mascaro Organizations: WASHINGTON, Democrats, —, California Republican, Republican, North Carolina Republican, Committee, AP Locations: McHenry

☆ Hardline shutdown push of the few frustrates US House Republicans
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Facing pressure from his right flank, McCarthy is pursuing a partisan Republican CR that would cut current government funding levels and contain provisions on security and immigration at the U.S. border with Mexico. Those proposals are unlikely to win the Democratic support they would need to pass the Senate, or to be signed by Biden. HARDLINE HOLDOUTSBut Republican hardliners, including members of the House Freedom Caucus and allies of former President Donald Trump, are resisting even McCarthy's partisan plan. The record-setting, 34-day 2018 shutdown came weeks after Republicans lost their House majority during Trump's term. "They're talking to a small portion of America," said Republican Representative Darrell Issa.

Persons: Mitch McConnell, Mary F, Kevin McCarthy's, Patrick McHenry, Joe Biden, McCarthy, Biden, Donald Trump, Matt Rosendale, Andy Biggs, Biggs, Matt Gaetz, Eli Crane, Representative Dan Bishop, Darrell Issa, Don Bacon, They're, David Morgan, Scott Malone, Timothy Gardner Organizations: U.S, Capitol, REUTERS, Rights, Republicans, U.S . House, Democratic, Senate, Reuters, The North Carolina Republican, Wall, Republican, HOLDOUTS, Caucus, Twitter, Freedom Caucus, Trump, Washington Democrats, Representative, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, U.S, The, Mexico, North Carolina, America

☆ Judge rejects Mark Meadows' bid to move Georgia case to federal court, ramping up pressure on him and other co-defendants to flip on Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A judge ruled Friday against Mark Meadows' bid to move the prosecution against him to federal court. Meadows is one of 18 co-defendants charged alongside Trump in his Georgia election interference case. A former federal prosecutor told Insider the ruling ramps up pressure on the co-defendants to flip on Trump. In a Friday ruling, US District Court Judge Steve Jones denied Meadows' bid to move the prosecution against him to federal court. With Meadows' case staying in Georgia, Rahmani said, there's "a lot of pressure" on Meadows and the other co-defendants to cooperate with the prosecution.

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☆ Mark Meadows' alleged crimes are far worse than Nixon hatchet man HR Haldeman's, says expert on White House chiefs of staff
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Mark Meadows' alleged crimes are worse than Watergate figure HR "Bob Haldeman," an expert says. Chris Whipple, an expert on White House chiefs of staff, said it was entirely predictable how Meadows got indicted. Meadows, Whipple added, "may be on the same track" as Nixon White House chief of staff HR "Bob" Haldeman to become the second former White House chief of staff to serve prison time. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows listens as President Donald Trump speaks to the press outside the White House on October 30, 2020. "I think being Donald Trump's White House chief of staff was Mission Impossible," Whipple said.

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☆ Top North Carolina Republicans privately encouraged then-Democrat Tricia Cotham to run for the state House in 2022, a year before she switched parties and gave the GOP a veto-proof majority
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Two of North Carolina's top GOP leaders encouraged Tricia Cotham to run for office last year, per The Times. Cotham, from a family with deep Democratic roots, flipped to the GOP three months into her new term. And then Cotham in April made a decision that immediately transformed North Carolina politics, as she switched from the Democratic Party to the GOP, giving the latter party supermajorities in both the state House and state Senate. What was previously unknown until now was that top North Carolina Republicans — namely House Speaker Tim Moore and House Majority Leader John Bell — had encouraged Cotham to run for the seat last year, according to The Times. Jonathan Coby, Cotham's former campaign consultant, told The Times that Cotham was irate over her political predicament.

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☆ Biden mocks Republicans for accepting pandemic relief funds while opposing student loan forgiveness: 'My program is too expensive?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

President Joe Biden tore into Republicans for opposing his student loan forgiveness plan. The PPP loans were aimed at keeping business afloat during the pandemic by providing critical backstops to meet payroll and other limited needs. "College loan forgiveness benefits one person and undermines the basic principles of personal responsibility." The Sarasota Republican had over $2.7 million in forgiven PPP loans and interests for car dealerships connected to him. A spokesperson for the Oklahoman blasted Biden for suggesting there was something wrong with opposing student loan forgiveness in light of accepting PPP money.

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The 6-3 decision, authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld a 2022 ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court against the Republican legislators. Another state court replaced that map with one drawn by a bipartisan group of experts, and that one was in effect for the November 2022 elections. They contended that the state court usurped the North Carolina General Assembly's authority under that provision to regulate federal elections. The plaintiffs argued that the map violated the North Carolina state constitution's provisions concerning free elections and freedom of assembly, among others. Democratic President Joe Biden's administration argued against the Republican position when the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case in December.

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The North Carolina controversy arose after the state Supreme Court struck down the state’s 2022 congressional map as an illegal partisan gerrymander, replacing it with court drawn maps that favored Democrats. Reggie Weaver, at podium, speaks outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, North Carolina, Feb. 15, 2022, about a partisan gerrymandering ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court. Gary D. Robertson/APAfter the state high court ruled, North Carolina Republican lawmakers appealed the decision to the US Supreme Court, arguing that the state Supreme Court had exceeded its authority. After the last election, the North Carolina Supreme Court flipped its majority to Republican. With the US Supreme Court rejecting the lawmakers’ theory that state courts could not police federal election rules, lawyers for the legislature’s opponents celebrated Tuesday’s ruling.

Persons: Donald Trump, John Roberts, ” Roberts, Roberts, ”, “, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Barack Obama, ” Obama, Reggie Weaver, Gary D, Robertson, Tuesday’s, Neal Katyal, Today’s, court’s, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, ” Thomas, Gorsuch, Thomas, –, Jessica Ring Amunson, Sam Hirsch, Jenner, Hilary Harris Klein – Organizations: CNN, North Carolina, Independent, Chief, Federal, North Carolina Supreme, AP, North, North Carolina Republican, Supreme, North Carolina Supreme Court, Republican, US, Block, Southern Coalition for Social Justice Locations: North Carolina, Federal, Raleigh , North Carolina, “

☆ Factbox-The main legal troubles facing Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

(Reuters) - Here is a list of additional legal troubles facing Donald Trump in addition to federal charges he retained classified government documents and obstructed justice. Trump had sought to prevent top aides, including his then-Vice President Mike Pence, from testifying in that probe being weighed by a separate D.C. grand jury. Pence appeared before the grand jury in April after Trump lost his legal challenge. Trump repeatedly lambasted Pence before the attack for refusing to try to prevent Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election. Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgia criminal election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jonathan Drake, General Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, Trump, Trump’s, Mike Pence, Pence, Joe Biden’s, Fani Willis, Brad Raffensperger, Michael Cohen, Daniels, Cohen, reimbursing Cohen, Jean Carroll, Carroll, Letitia James, James Organizations: Reuters, U.S, Republican, North Carolina Republican Party, REUTERS, CAPITOL, Capitol, Justice Department, Trump, Democrat, Republican Georgia, U.S . Constitution, Trump’s, Prosecutors, CNN, GENERAL, New York, Trump Organization, The Securities, Exchange Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Locations: Greensboro , North Carolina, U.S, United States, GEORGIA, Fulton County, Georgia, U.S ., New York, Manhattan

Trump is scheduled to be in a Miami federal courthouse on Tuesday at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) for an initial appearance in the case. The poll also found Trump continues to lead his rivals for the party's presidential nomination by a wide margin. Some 43% of self-identified Republicans said Trump was their preferred candidate, compared to 22% who picked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks on as he attends the North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greensboro, North Carolina, June 10, 2023. Trump accuses Democratic President Joe Biden of orchestrating the federal case to undermine his campaign.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Jonathan Drake, Manny Morales, Jack Smith, William Barr, Joe Biden, Biden, Smith, Susan Heavey, Nathan Layne, Julia Harte, Doina Chiacu, Jacqueline Thomsen, Andy Sullivan, Noeleen Walder, Howard Goller Organizations: MIAMI, Reuters, Social, Republican, Florida, DeSantis, Former U.S, North Carolina Republican Party, REUTERS, U.S . Capitol, Miami, White, Democratic, Department, Thomson Locations: Miami, New Jersey, Georgia, Former, Greensboro , North Carolina, Lago Florida, Florida, New York

☆ Trump indictment is 'very, very damning,' his former attorney general says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump applauds as he attends the North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. June 10, 2023. After a 37-count criminal indictment against Donald Trump was unsealed Friday, Trump's former Attorney General Bill Barr said there is trouble ahead for the 2024 Republican presidential hopeful. "If even half of it is true, then he's toast," Barr told "Fox News Sunday." Many Republicans, including presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, have rallied around Trump in the wake of the indictment. "Former President Trump has no one to blame but himself for being federally, criminally indicted," he told ABC's "This Week."

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[1/2] Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks at the North Carolina Republican Party convention in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. June 9, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan DrakeWASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized the indictment of rival Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday, saying there had been what he called double standards in issuing charges. "Is there a different standard for a Democrat Secretary of State versus a former Republican president?" Biden and top officials have repeatedly said the Justice Department is acting independently. And that's what we've seen," said DeSantis, who is running a distant second behind Trump in opinion polls for the Republican nomination.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, Jonathan Drake WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, DeSantis, Trump, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Clinton, Joe Biden, Biden, Kanishka Singh, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Florida Governor, Republican, North Carolina Republican Party, REUTERS, Trump, U.S . State Department, FBI, White House, Republicans, Democratic, Justice Department, Thomson Locations: Greensboro , North Carolina, U.S, Florida, Washington

☆ Trump set to deliver fiery post-indictment speech: 'They're coming after you'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Matt Dixon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

"In the end, they're not coming after me, they're coming after you -- and I'm just standing in their way," Trump will say, according to his prepared remarks. The indictment alleges Trump not only withheld classified documents but lied to federal agents and investigators about his involvement. "The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society," Florida Gov. He said the details of the Trump indictment is "devastating." Trump was also set to speak at the North Carolina Republican Party's annual convention on Saturday night.

Persons: Donald Trump's, Trump, — Donald Trump's, they're, Jack Smith, Joe Biden, Brian Kemp, Brad Raffensperger, Kemp, Raffensperger, Burt Jones, Biden, Kari Lake, That's, Ron DeSantis, Hunter, DeSantis, Chris Christie, Sen, Mike Rounds, Mike Pence Organizations: Newark International Airport, Georgia Republican, Columbus Convention, Trade Center, America, FBI, DNC, Trump, Republican, Fox News, Gov, Arizona, Georgia Republicans, National Rifle Association, Department, Justice, New, Republicans, Department of Justice, North, North Carolina Republican Locations: Newark , N.J, Georgia, North Carolina, COLUMBUS, Chattahoochee, Columbus, Trump, State, Miami, Florida, New Jersey, America, New York, Iowa

☆ Trump delivers fiery post-indictment speech: 'They're coming after you'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Matt Dixon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

They're coming after you — and I'm just standing in their way," Trump said. The indictment alleged that Trump not only withheld classified documents but lied to federal agents and investigators about his involvement. Another person in attendance was the conservative Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor, R-Ga., whom the former president brought onstage for brief remarks. He said the details of the Trump indictment were "devastating." Trump was also set to speak at the North Carolina Republican Party's annual convention on Saturday night.

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Republican hopefuls have alleged, without evidence, that the investigation into Trump, who is running to unseat Biden from the White House in 2024, is politically motivated. As the charges against Trump were unsealed, Biden was in North Carolina, where he was discussing his economic agenda and had plans to meet with military members. BIDEN, TRUMP IN SWING STATENorth Carolina is a key political swing state that Republicans are courting this weekend during a state convention. North Carolina, with 15 electoral votes, is an important political swing state that Trump won, though only with a slim margin, in 2020. He leads the North Carolina Republican field with 44% of the vote, followed by DeSantis at 22%, the poll shows.

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“Clean, clean, clean,” he told CNN in April, referencing the push for a clean debt ceiling resolution. He then later forced President Joe Biden to negotiate a debt limit suspension with spending cuts. “I think the Republican House caucus is willing to go to default,” said Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat. A fired-up Buck, who opposed the debt limit deal, told reporters that he has received calls from constituents about removing McCarthy from the speakership. Now he says he would let us look at the document,” McCarthy told reporters.

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☆ As South Carolina governor signs new law, abortion restrictions strain providers in U.S. South
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The South Carolina House of Representatives is called back by Gov. "This is a great day for life in South Carolina, but the fight is not over. We stand ready to defend this legislation against any challenges and are confident we will succeed," Republican South Carolina Gov. The new law signed by South Carolina governor's will change that status, according to Caitlin Myers, an economics professor at Middlebury College. Over the past two months, Republican officials in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida have pushed Virginia closer to being a regional outlier as a place with relatively permissive access.

☆ Opinion | The Four Freedoms, According to Republicans
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Tuesday, Republicans in North Carolina overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto to pass a strict limit on bodily autonomy in the form of a 12-week abortion ban. North Carolina Republicans are obviously not the only ones fighting to ban, limit or restrict the right to bodily autonomy, whether abortion or gender-affirming health care for transgender people. All across the country, Republicans have passed laws to do exactly that wherever they have the power to do so, regardless of public opinion in their states or anywhere else. The war on bodily autonomy is a critical project for nearly the entire G.O.P., pursued with dedication by Republicans from the lowliest state legislator to the party’s powerful functionaries on the Supreme Court.

☆ Madison Cawthorn pleads guilty in case over bringing a loaded handgun through TSA checkpoint
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Rebekah Riess | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn pleaded guilty Friday to bringing a loaded handgun through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport last year, according to his attorney. Cawthorn’s weapon was “secured at the airport and he retrieved it after his flight,” the newspaper reported, citing the airport spokesperson. In July 2021, when the story was published, a Cawthorn spokesperson told the Citizen-Times that the congressman had brought the gun “by mistake.” He was not charged in the incident. Despite having Trump’s endorsement, he lost in the Republican primary to Chuck Edwards, who had the backing of several top North Carolina Republicans. Edwards easily went on to win the general election for the western North Carolina seat.

☆ ProPublica: GOP megadonor paid private school tuition for grandnephew of Justice Clarence Thomas
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —A Texas billionaire and GOP megadonor paid boarding school tuition for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ grandnephew, and the justice did not report the financial assistance for the child he helped raised on his annual disclosures, according to a new ProPublica report – the latest revelation raising ethical questions around the high court. The ProPublica report on Thursday revealed that the billionaire Harlan Crow paid tuition for Mark Martin, who lived with Thomas’ family as a child and for whom the justice became a legal guardian. ProPublica cited a 2009 bank statement and an interview with a former administrator at the Georgia boarding school Martin attended. The former administrator at the school, Hidden Lake Academy, told ProPublica that Crow paid for Martin’s tuition for the year or so Martin was at the boarding school. The administrator said, according to ProPublica, that he had been told by Crow that Crow also paid for Martin’s tuition at another school, the Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia, which is Crow’s alma mater.

☆ North Carolina Republicans reach agreement on 12-week abortion ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Sharon Bernstein | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The proposal is the latest effort by lawmakers in Republican-dominated state legislatures to limit abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to end a pregnancy last year. "The bill that has been developed is a commonsense, reasonable approach to restricting second and third trimester abortions," state senate leader Phil Berger said at a news conference. The legislation would limit elective abortions to 12 weeks' gestation, with exceptions for rape, incest, life-limiting fetal anomalies and the life of the mother. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, said on Tuesday he "strongly opposed" the measure. The move by North Carolina Republicans comes days after a far more restrictive anti-abortion bill was successfully blocked in neighboring South Carolina by a group of five women lawmakers, three of them Republicans.

☆ In win for Republicans, North Carolina court allows partisan gerrymandering
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Joseph Ax | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] Voters line up a few minutes before the polls close during the 2022 U.S. midterm elections in Durham, North Carolina, U.S., November 8, 2022. In the same election, Republicans flipped two Democratic seats on the North Carolina Supreme Court, securing a 5-2 conservative majority. "I think it's the worst decision the North Carolina Supreme Court perhaps has ever made," Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause North Carolina, told reporters. When the North Carolina court agreed to rehear the case, however, the U.S. Supreme Court asked for additional briefing from the parties about whether it still had legal jurisdiction over the matter. Now that the North Carolina court has vacated the decision that formed the basis for the U.S. Supreme Court's review, the U.S. Supreme Court may conclude it no longer has a role to play in resolving the matter.

☆ Opinion | What a Party Switch in North Carolina Means for Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Tressie Mcmillan Cottom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Her media tour on the subject is nonsensical and vague, though, by the most generous standards. She stutters about unspecified run-ins in public with mean constituents and unwelcoming Democrats, for instance. For a model on the choices before Cotham, one need look no further than conservative commentator Matt Walsh. Representative Graig Meyer of North Carolina had a more practical read of the changes in the state’s new balance of power. On Twitter, Meyer, a Democrat, laid out how much national abortion policy boxes in North Carolina Republicans.

☆ House Republicans in swing districts are so beholden to Trump they're not publicly opposing his pleas to defund law enforcement
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

After his arraignment, Trump called on GOP members of Congress to defund law enforcement. Following this, Punchbowl News reached out to 18 vulnerable House Republicans in swing districts. One day after his arraignment, Trump took to Truth Social in an all-caps tirade to express his desire to defund law enforcement. "REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SHOULD DEFUND THE DOJ AND THE FBI UNTIL THEY COME TO THEIR SENSES," Trump wrote. Following the former president's plea on social media, political outlet Punchbowl News asked the 18 Republican representatives in districts where President Joe Biden won in 2020 for comment.

☆ A North Carolina Democrat's shocking party switch may hand complete power over to the state's Republicans, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A North Carolina lawmaker is expected to switch parties in what would be a stunning turn of events. It would give the GOP a supermajority, meaning they could override the Dem governor's vetoes. As of March 2023, Cooper had issued 75 vetoes — more than all previous North Carolina governors combined — since taking office six years ago, according to The Assembly NC. From 2005 to 2009, Jerry Meek, whom Cotham married in late 2008, was the chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party. According to the North Carolina political blog Watauga Watch, Cotham and Meek are no longer married.

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