How Illinois Lawmakers Voted On Impeachment
Illinois Congressman Brad Schneider talks about the historic impeachment vote and his recent COVID-19 diagnosis.
Illinois Congressman Brad Schneider talks about the historic impeachment vote and his recent COVID-19 diagnosis.
After nearly four decades in power, recent scandals and investigations surrounding Michael Madigan left him politically vulnerable.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security wrote detailed threat assessments before Black Lives Matter demonstrations last summer, but offered only general warnings before the events on Jan. 6.
The number represents an uptick in National Guard troops that will be deployed to the area, but it could still fluctuate.
President Trump made history, the siege on the Capitol exposed splits in the GOP party that are likely to remain, Biden’s agenda will now compete with a Senate trial and the Capitol is a fortress.
Ten Republicans crossed the aisle to support the impeachment. Next, a Senate trial — one that won’t take place until after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in.This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and senior political editor and correspondent Ron Elving.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Listen to our playlist The NPR Politics Daily Workout.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
Evangelicals, says Ed Stetzer of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, should start to reckon with their own behaviors and actions that may have helped fuel the insurrection at the Capitol.
“Everywhere in life, everywhere in the world, there has to be bosses.” From the garbage truck to the king of patronage, the legacy of Michael Madigan.
Education policy expert Cristina Pacione-Zayas is Martinez’s hand-picked successor to serve in the Illinois State Senate.
Just one week before he will leave office, Trump has now become the first U.S. president to be impeached twice.