Daily Digest for January 13, 2021 Posted at 7:45 a.m. by Michael Olson |
Good morning,
🎧 Live now: House resumes debate on removing President Trump for the second time — marking him as the only president to receive the rebuke twice in history.
This time, though, impeachment could be bipartisan. Republicans all opposed the House vote in December 2019, arguing that it was politically driven. But now some GOP lawmakers are joining Democrats at pointing the finger at the president for using rhetoric that helped spark a violent insurrection at the Capitol last Wednesday that left at least five dead.
The impeachment resolution on the House floor Wednesday includes one article, citing "incitement of insurrection," will be debated on the House floor. Sponsors of the resolution maintain they have the votes already to pass it.
The resolution states: "President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government. He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States." [Read More: How It Will Work]
Eau Clair man arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol Republicans lash out against new security measures at the CapitolViolent threats targeting Minnesota leaders on the rise (Star Tribune) |
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