Former WH Counsel Pat Cipollone spent over eight hours in closed-door testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee, according to Politico. Committee member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) told CNN that Cipollone “did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses,” but… Continue reading

Aaron Blake in The Fix, on this Monmouth University poll, which finds: Nearly two-thirds (65%) of the public say it is appropriate to describe the incident at the U.S. Capitol as a riot, and half (50%) say it… Continue reading

As scooped by this morning’s Politico, I’m delighted to announce that I have created and will serve as the Director of the “Safeguarding Democracy Project” at UCLA Law. From the project’s website, here is the mission… Continue reading

NYT: Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel to President Donald J. Trump who repeatedly fought Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has reached a deal to be interviewed by Friday before the House committee investigating the… Continue reading

From Greg Sargent’s column in the Washington Post: “One nightmare scenario is that a Republican state legislature, potentially with a Trumpist governor, passes a law saying the state legislature itself is the final canvassing board for the state,” Matthew Seligman,… Continue reading

Ankush Khardori in Politico: By letting Congress apparently take the lead in investigating Trump and his inner circle and by doing a poor job of coordinating its efforts with the Jan. 6 committee, the department has undermined its own… Continue reading

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections has subpoenaed key members of former President Donald Trump’s legal team, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to copies obtained by… Continue reading

WSJ: “The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to zero in on two overlapping areas of its probe in coming hearings: the extremist groups that participated in the attack… Continue reading

Politico reports: In total, at least 16 lawyers who represented plaintiffs in five federal lawsuits promoting Trump’s baseless election fraud claims in the key battlegrounds of Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona remain in good standing or have no record… Continue reading

Romney has this commentary in the Atlantic, touching on inflation, climate change, and immigration, as well as election denial: [W]hen a renowned conservative former federal appellate judge testifies that we are already in a war for our democracy and that… Continue reading