Talking Points Memo

Senate Republicans on Sunday rehashed a new GOP line arguing that impeaching former President Donald Trump is unconstitutional now that he has left office — a disputed legal argument that constitutional scholars have dismissed.

Biden officials on Sunday affirmed that although the President's goal of 100 million COVID-19 vaccinations in his first 100 days in office is a challenge in itself after former President Trump left the country with no real vaccine distribution plan, it is just…

Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the White House coronavirus response coordinator during the Trump administration, on Sunday expressed regrets over failing to push back at President Trump's unfounded claims on COVID-19 while also shedding light on the spread of…

Amid several Republican senators supporting a disputed legal argument that holding a Senate impeachment trial against a former president is unconstitutional, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) rejected that notion on Sunday as he argued that Trump’s incitement of the…

In a desperate effort to delegitimize Joe Biden's legitimate election victory, former President Trump reportedly urged the Justice Department to directly ask the Supreme Court to overturn the election results — an attempt that fell flat after DOJ leadership…

Federal law enforcement officials are privately considering whether they should not charge some of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol this month, according to a report from the Washington Post on Saturday. 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has said he now has “concerns” about Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) after she voted to impeach former President Trump earlier this month.…

The impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump will begin Feb. 9 under a deal reached Friday by top Senate leaders over the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month  -- but the GOP could end up regretting its own efforts to delay the…

A Justice Department attorney is said to have schemed with former President Trump to oust the acting attorney general as part of a plan to force lawmakers in Georgia to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results.

With the country reeling from the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt, the Biden White House laid out its first steps towards a strategy to counter the ongoing prospect of more far-right violence.