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Longtime political operative and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will announce Monday that she is running for governor for Arkansas.
Sanders is likely to be seen as a popular pick as a close ally to former President Donald Trump.
<p>After leaving the position, Trump tweeted that he thought she should run for governor and that he supported her in a political bid. </p><p>She'll face <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/sarah-sanders-leaving-white-house" target="_blank">a lot of questions about her lies</a> while standing behind the podium but given support for her and the former president in Arkansas it's not sure Republican voters there care. </p><p>Sanders is the first from the Trump orbit to announce candidacy for the 2022 elections. His daughter-in-law Lara Trump is said to be looking at<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/lara-trump-looking-to-run-for-us-senate-in-north-carolina-in-2022/" target="_blank"> running for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina </a>and Ivanka Trump is reportedly considering a <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/is-ivanka-trump-looking-to-take-marco-rubio-out-of-the-us-senate/" target="_blank">run for U.S. Senate in Florida</a>. </p>
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Trump supporters are threatening lawmakers as the second impeachment approaches: report
January 24, 2021
Washington lawmakers were left terrorized after the U.S. Capitol came under attack on Jan. 6. The night before, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) told her husband where her will was located if she was killed. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser asked for National Guard support days in advance. Now, that fear has returned as some lawmakers face threats ahead of impeachment.
The Associated Press cited sources revealing that federal law enforcement officials are already investigating threats ahead of the beginning of the trial in the Senate.
<p>An official explained to the AP that the threat of insurrectionists returning prompted the Capitol Police to ask 5,000 National Guard troops to stay in the Capitol longer. </p><p>"The official was not authorized to not discuss an ongoing investigation publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity," said the report. </p><p><a href="https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2021/01/25/ap-source-lawmakers-threatened-ahead-of-impeachment-trial/" target="_blank">Read the full report. </a></p>
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Justice Department can still pursue charges against Manafort, Stone and Bannon after pardons: prosecutor
January 24, 2021
While many of President Donald Trump's close allies were pardoned in the final months of his presidency, that doesn't mean they have escaped accountability for their crimes or convictions.
Writing for Just Security, former senior prosecutor for Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, argued that people like Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and others still aren't out of the woods.
<p>In the case of Bannon, there were specific pardons "under chapter 95 of title 18 of the United States Code (basically racketeering type charges)," he wrote. Those aren't all of the charges against Bannon and it certainly doesn't cover additional federal crimes like "mail and wire fraud."</p><p>"It is rare that a prosecutor charges all such counts that could be charged, as it would overwhelm a jury and is unnecessary to increasing a sentence upon conviction," he noted. </p><p>In the case of Michael Flynn, Trump's pardon was "exceedingly broad," he described. Granting him a pardon for "any and all possible offenses arising from the facts" in his Criminal Information and Statement of Offense, "any and all possible offenses within the investigatory authority or jurisdiction of the Special Counsel" and "any and all possible offenses arising out of facts and circumstances known to, identified by, or in any manner related to the investigation of the Special Counsel."</p><p>That wasn't the way the pardons worked for the others, like Stone and Manafort. In his Virginia and Washington, D.C. trial, there were 10 hung counts that could all be retried.</p><p>"In that district, Manafort pleaded to a superseding information containing two conspiracy charges, while the entire underlying indictment — containing numerous crimes from money laundering, to witness tampering, to violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act — now remains open to prosecution as there was no conviction for those charges," Weissmann explained. </p><p>One count, in particular, Weissmann explained, Manafort already admitted to under oath. </p><p>Manafort also waved the venue in his plea agreement and waved the statute of limitations. But after Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled in Feb. 2019 that Manafort breached the cooperation agreement by lying to the government, the Justice Department isn't bound by the cooperation agreement not to go after other charges. </p><p>There were also narrow pardons for Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos and Alex van den Zwann, all of whom could be held accountable due to Trump's sloppy pardon text. </p><p><a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/74241/the-gaps-in-trumps-pardons-how-the-biden-administration-can-still-pursue-justice/" target="_blank">Read the full explanation at Just Security. </a></p>
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