GOP Senators’ Bogus Arguments Against Trying and Convicting Trump

The vote by 45 Senate Republicans on Tuesday to dodge the question of whether spending two months whipping your followers into a frenzy by telling …


The Bulwark flipped this story into The Bulwark Online•482d
More stories from U.S. Politics
More stories from U.S. Senate
- The Atlanticflipped into Politics
The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control
The basic rules of American democracy provide a veto over national policy to a minority of the states. After each of the repeated mass shootings that now provide a tragic backbeat to American life, the same doomed dance of legislation quickly begins. As the outraged demands for action are inevitably …
2 losers and 1 winner from the Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas primaries
Georgia’s primary date was one former President Donald Trump circled on his calendar early in the primary season, as a spot to seek revenge against Republicans who didn’t do enough to support his election lies. That primary, as well as ones in Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota, and a runoff in Texas, …
- LGBTQ Nationflipped into LGBTQ Nation
Kyrsten Sinema shredded by fellow Democrats for blocking gun reform as kids are killed
"Please just stop.. unless you are willing to break the filibuster to actually pass sensible gun control measures you might as well just say …
- Slateflipped into News & Politics
Why the Senate Protects Justices From Protesters but Won’t Protect Kids From Mass Shootings
Our broken political system has produced a federal judiciary that's enabling the next massacre.
Join the flipboard community
Discover, collect, and share stories for all your interests
Sign upMore stories from U.S. Congress
- The Atlanticflipped into Politics
The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control
The basic rules of American democracy provide a veto over national policy to a minority of the states. After each of the repeated mass shootings that now provide a tragic backbeat to American life, the same doomed dance of legislation quickly begins. As the outraged demands for action are inevitably …
- The Mercury Newsflipped into Top Stories
Mounting losses show limits of Trump’s power
WOODSTOCK, Ga. — Donald Trump opened May by lifting a trailing Senate candidate in Ohio to the Republican nomination, seemingly cementing the former …
- LGBTQ Nationflipped into LGBTQ Nation
Kyrsten Sinema shredded by fellow Democrats for blocking gun reform as kids are killed
"Please just stop.. unless you are willing to break the filibuster to actually pass sensible gun control measures you might as well just say …
- Slateflipped into News & Politics
Why the Senate Protects Justices From Protesters but Won’t Protect Kids From Mass Shootings
Our broken political system has produced a federal judiciary that's enabling the next massacre.