While Senate Republicans were busy on Friday aiding and abetting Donald Trump’s “total obstruction” of Congress by voting not to hear from relevant first-hand knowledge witnesses who have offered to testify and who have receipts to corroborate their testimony, these very same witnesses were dropping bombshells in “breaking news” in split-screen coverage of the impeachment … Read more
Francis Wilkinson at Bloomberg sums it nicely, After Trump’s Acquittal, It Will Only Get Worse for Republicans (excerpt): It’s a foregone conclusion: Republican senators will damn themselves to infinity and beyond. The question isn’t what Republican senators will decide next week, but where the Republican Party will go after Trump’s acquittal. That answer, too, is … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court has stated that “the basic purpose of the trial is the determination of the truth,” and in the American system of jurisprudence, “to seek justice.” What we have borne witness to during the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump is the rejection by craven Senate Republicans and the president’s … Read more
Majority Leader Rep. Warren Petersen’s (R-Gilbert) build your own border wall bill (HB2084) moved quickly through the process in the Arizona House. It was assigned to the Federal Relations and Rules Committees on the first day of the 2020 session. It passed out of Rep. Mark Finchem’s (R- Oro Valley) federalism committee last week, out … Read more
Arizona Legislative District 15, an area that includes all or parts of Peoria, Phoenix, Cave Creek, Paradise Valley, and Deer Valley, will be a district to pay attention to in 2020. Nancy Barto and Heather Carter are fighting it out for the Republican Senate Nomination. As of January 10, 2020, five Republicans are competing for … Read more