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“They’re still doing his bidding”: GOP caught working with Trump lawyer to kill tax probe, Dems say
The Property Oversight Committee quietly dropped an investigation into irrespective of whether previous President Donald Trump improperly profited while in the White Property. Dwelling Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., advised The New York Moments on Tuesday that the committee would not enforce a courtroom-supervised settlement that required Trump’s former accounting firm Mazars United states to switch in excess of his fiscal data to Congress. “I actually didn’t even know who or what Mazars was,” Comer, who invested a long time in the minority on the committee as it investigated Trump’s finances, claimed in a assertion to the outlet. “What specifically are they seeking for? They have been ‘investigating’ Trump for 6…
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Sanctions for bogus election lawsuits spurs GOP proposal to protect attorneys from punishment
Angry at lawyers being disciplined for making baseless election fraud issues in Arizona courts, a Republican legislator claims the Condition Bar of Arizona and the Arizona Supreme Courtroom should be barred from punishing people lawyers and be heavily fined if they do so. The bill from Sen. Anthony Kern, R-Glendale, prohibits both the Point out Bar and the Arizona Supreme Court docket from “infringing” or “impeding” on the “political speech” of an lawyer or an attorney’s customers by disciplining them or revoking their licenses for “bringing a excellent faith, non frivolous declare that is primarily based in regulation and simple fact to court docket.” If they’re deemed to be in…
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GOP Division Threatens to Derail Immigration Legislation
Opposition from bash moderates threatens to derail designs by Household Republicans ideas to swiftly pass an immigration bill that would assist reestablish manage at the U.S.-Mexico border. In December, then-House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., provided the Border Protection and Stability Act in a raft of legislation that Republicans meant to pass in their very first two months in the the vast majority, by sending them straight to the House floor, in accordance to The Hill. Below the act, the Homeland Security secretary would be empowered to expel migrants from the southern border to obtain “operational handle.” Homeland Protection Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has usually been accused by the GOP of…
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House GOP grapples with disagreement over border and immigration legislation
As Residence Republicans took hold of the the greater part this 12 months, they experienced prepared to rapidly go a border bill that would permit the Homeland Safety Secretary to turn away migrants at the border. But the bill strike a main snag: opposition from GOP moderates. The delay and disagreement highlights the challenge for Home Republican leaders in taking care of this sort of a slim greater part, even for charges relating to issues that drive the party’s top rated messages. Residence Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) in December bundled the Border Safety and Security Act in a slate of 12 bills and resolutions that Republicans prepared to go in the to start…
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Texas GOP coalesces around bill banning Chinese ownership of land
Indicator up for The Short, The Texas Tribune’s day by day publication that retains viewers up to velocity on the most essential Texas news. Gov. Greg Abbott stated this 7 days that he would indication a proposed monthly bill banning citizens and overseas entities from 4 international locations, including China, from obtaining Texas land. Submitted in November by Brenham Republican Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, Senate Monthly bill 147 would ban citizens, governments and entities from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from purchasing land here, section of what she and other Republicans have reported will assist stem international affect in Texas. The bill would also prohibit the order or acquisition of…
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