Trump’s sedition allies scramble to refuse testimony; Dems fed up with Boebert stunts

Within the information at this time: The financial information continues to be surprisingly brilliant, contemplating that we’re nonetheless knee-deep in a worldwide pandemic. As courts proceed to deal with the invented “government privilege” claims an ex-president with skepticism, Donald Trump’s internal circle is shifting to declarations that they’re going to invoke their Fifth Modification rights—the suitable to refuse to testify when accused of committing a criminal offense—if compelled to seem earlier than the congressional committee investigating the origins of the Jan. 6 rebel. That is not essentially a maneuver that is going to repay any higher for them, nonetheless.

Within the Senate, the dance to maintain the federal government open with out requiring a single Republican vote to take action and whereas protecting the filibuster intact has as soon as once more devolved into farce. And within the Home, fed-up Democrats need to see the bigoted pro-sedition Boebert stripped of duties for her relentless assaults on a Muslim colleague. Simply because the Republican Occasion refuses to impose moral requirements for its members doesn’t suggest the remainder of Congress has to place up with it.

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