Republican Senators Mike Lee (Utah) and Rand Paul (Ky.) ripped the Trump administration over a closed-door briefing on Iran on Wednesday, announcing they will now support a resolution reining in President Trump’s military powers. The Hill reports, Rand Paul, Mike Lee rip administration over ‘insulting and demeaning’ Iran briefing: Lee, speaking to reporters after a … Read more
Tess Bridgeman is Senior Editor at Just Security blog, with a lengthy resumé in national security. Ms. Bridgeman breaks down the Trump administration’s recent escalation of hostilities with Iran which puts the U.S. on a war footing with Iran. The Soleimani Strike and War Powers: With the targeted killing [i.e., assassination] of Iranian Maj. Gen. … Read more
Color me not surprised. Sen. Martha McSally ‘hasn’t been convinced’ Trump should be impeached: “Senator McSally takes her role as a juror seriously but hasn’t heard anything so far that would lead her to believe impeachment of the president is warranted, let alone removing him from office,” said campaign manager Dylan Lefler in a statement … Read more
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to toss out a lawsuit over missing notes documenting President Donald Trump’s face-to-face meetings with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Judge rejects government’s motion to toss suit over missing Trump-Putin meeting notes: American Oversight and Democracy Forward, a pair of left-leaning nonpartisan watchdog groups, sued … Read more
“Moscow Mitch” McConnell, “the Grim Reaper” of the Senate “graveyard” where bills go to die on his whim, has for the past year sought to prevent any of the election security bills — several of them with broad bipartisan support — designed to deter Russian interference in the 2020 election to come to a formal … Read more