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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York City has not been shy about calling for the impeachment of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The progressive Queens/Bronx Democrat has argued that Thomas — in light of his wife Ginni Thomas' efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results — seriously violated judicial ethics by refusing to recuse himself from a case involving the January 6, 2021 insurrection.

AOC also believes that Thomas and other justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade with their 5-4 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization lied about their views on abortion during their Senate confirmation hearings — a deception she considers impeachable. Now, Ocasio-Cortez has another reason for calling for Justice Thomas' impeachment: a bombshell ProPublica report that was published on April 6 and alleges that "for over 20 years," Thomas "has been treated to luxury vacations by billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow." One of them was a trip to Indonesia.

The judge overseeing the hush money case against Donald Trump paid political contributions to the Democratic party and Joe Biden in 2020, according to a report by CNN.

Though the donations are small — totaling just $35 — the ramifications could be huge as Trump has already relied heavily on claims that Juan Merchan “hates me.”

An emotional trip as the first Black US vice president to Africa, followed by a frontline role pushing President Joe Biden's economic message at home is giving Kamala Harris a chance to steady her political ship ahead of a reelection campaign set to bring fierce scrutiny.

Returning home last weekend from a tour of Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia, Harris found herself treated to unusually positive headlines, not least in an Associated Press article, reproduced in news outlets across the United States, describing her as a "historic figure."

From crops to corals, a book circulated by a controversial US think tank is riddled with misleading claims about established climate science, in what campaigners slam as a bid to "infect" young minds.

The free-market Heartland Institute drew outrage from campaigners and educators, but applause from climate skeptics, when it sent the book to more than 8,000 American school teachers this year "to present facts" it said were ignored or distorted by pundits and the media.

In an interview with CNN's Pamela Brown on Wednesday, pro-Trump legal activist and former Neil Gorsuch law clerk Mike Davis tried to argue that Juan Manuel Merchan, the judge presiding over the Trump indictment in Manhattan, is biased because of his daughter's campaign support for President Joe Biden — and failed miserably as Brown pointed out even Trump's own attorney, Joe Tacopina, is saying there is no indication Judge Merchan is biased.

"I don't think Trump is going to get a fair hearing in New York when you have the Democrat Party machine picking these local Manhattan trial judges and we haven't had a Republican governor in New York in 17 years, and so there's no chance he's going to get a fair appeal," said Davis. "So, yes, this is going to go to trial. And when you have a 95 percent jury pool that hates Donald Trump, you know, I know he's not—"

Timothy Heaphy, the former lead investigator for the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, has a list of questions that special counsel Jack Smith could ask of former Vice President Mike Pence.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday, Heaphy first addressed her questions about why Pence refused to get into the car in the basement of the Capitol that day. Pence had said to his aide that he didn't know who was driving and didn't trust that person. Trump aide Marc Short said that Pence was afraid of how the appearance of the VP's motorcade fleeing from the Capitol might look to the world at a time when the United States Capitol was under attack.

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) has launched investigations targeting Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Now, according to Kurt Bardella writing for the Courier Journal, he is seeking to "weaponize" the committee against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who just indicted former President Donald Trump.

"Comer’s hysterics have made him a mainstay on the Republican Party’s favorite propaganda outlet Fox News, appearing an absurd 11 times in the span of eight days," writes Bardella, who previously worked as a Republican congressional staffer and as a spokesman for Breitbart News.

In the wake of Donald Trump's arraignment in New York City this Tuesday, President Joe Biden has yet to say anything on the matter. According to Thomas Gift, founding director of University College London's Center on US Politics, Biden's silence is a very "smart tactic," Newsweek reported.

Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 34 felony charges linked to alleged attempts to silence damaging personal information during his triumphant 2016 race for the White House.

The events of Tuesday, April 4, 2023 were unprecedented in United States history. A former U.S. president, indicted by a grand jury, was arrested, booked and arraigned in Manhattan and pleaded "not guilty" to 34 criminal counts. As former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks has commented more than once, President Richard Nixon's legal problems during the Watergate scandal of the 1970s pale in comparison to the legal exposure that Trump is facing in 2023.

A long list of Republicans, from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), have responded to Trump's indictment by railing against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. and claiming that the former president is a victim of political persecution. But one prominent Republican who kept quiet about Trump's arraignment on April 4 was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). And that silence, according to The Hill's Alexander Bolton, speaks volumes.

A new report from Variety claims that CNN morning host Don Lemon has a lengthy history of toxic behavior that includes what many former colleagues describe as misogynistic.

Lemon earlier this year got himself into trouble when he made a sexist remark about Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley appearing to be "past her prime" as a politician, despite the fact that she's significantly younger than both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

A Chicago-area Trump supporter has been arrested on charges of felony stalking, criminal damage to property, and hate crimes after a series of anti-LGBTQ vandalism against neighbors in which he foolishly left an incriminating sticker police used to track him down, reported Block Club Chicago.

The suspect has been identified as 62-year-old Thomas Howard.