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Floor Webcast ... Stream live Senate floor proceedings while a meeting is in progress. Search, watch, and download previous proceedings starting with the 2nd session of the 112th Congress.
https://www.senate.gov/floor/

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Undated: Senate / Trump cabinet nominations
https://www.senate.gov/reference/Trump_cabinet.htm

Undated: Trump cabinet nominations
https://www.senate.gov/reference/Trump_cabinet.htm

November 21: Which Republican Senators Are Most Likely To Fight Trump?  ... And which Democrats are most likely to work with him?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-republican-senators-are-most-likely-to-fight-trump/

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January 27:
Senate Democrats have the power to stop Trump. All they have to do is use it.

We're inclined to compromise. But if we want to hold this administration accountable, we'll need to play hardball.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/democrats-in-congress-can-block-trumps-agenda-if-they-want-to-heres-how/?utm_term=.b55854bdd64e


February 15: President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of labor, Andrew Puzder, has formally withdrawn himself from consideration for the position, Puzder announced Wednesday — a rare move for a Cabinet-level pick. ... President Barack Obama had three nominees withdraw, though only one of them formally withdrew by submitting paperwork to the Senate, the Senate said. Only 10 Cabinet-level nominees have ever formally withdrawn, according to the U.S Senate.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-secretary-labor-pick-andrew-puzder-withdraws-nomination/story?id=45517721

April 5: The Senate Should Censure Trump ... It’s been done once before, against Andrew Jackson. Trump has disgraced the office of the presidency, so it’s time to do it again.
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-senate-should-censure-trump/

April 7: A bipartisan group of 61 senators sent a letter to Senate leaders Friday urging them to maintain the 60-vote threshold for filibusters involving legislation, which they said is needed to ensure bipartisanship remains a component of passing bills through the chamber.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/politics/senate-filibuster-rules-letter/index.html

April 29: Trump On Senate: "A Very Rough System," "An Archaic System" That's "A Bad Thing For The Country"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/04/29/trump_on_senate_a_very_rough_system_an_archaic_system_thats_a_bad_thing_for_the_country.html

May 30: [Trump tweet:] "The U.S. Senate should switch to 51 votes, immediately, and get Healthcare and TAX CUTS approved, fast and easy. Dems would do it, no doubt!" ... This is the president telling Mitch McConnell to take the "nuclear option" to its full conclusion, ending the practice of requiring 60 votes to pass legislation through the Senate.
https://www.axios.com/trump-tells-mcconnell-how-to-run-the-senate-2426806839.html

June 14: President Trump Wants Senate Republicans to Pass a 'Generous' Obamacare Replacement
http://fortune.com/2017/06/14/donald-trump-senate-republicans-obamacare-replacement/

June 26: Trump Rallies Senate Support for Health Care ... White House Watch: President Trump frets about Democratic obstruction.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-rallies-senate-support-for-health-care/article/2008625

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July 28: Senate Republicans are getting more aggressive in fighting back at President Trump’s attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says there will be “hell to pay” if Sessions is fired, while Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, warned he won’t hold hearings to confirm a successor to Sessions.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/344338-senate-gop-steps-up-defense-of-sessions

July 26: Congressional Republicans on Tuesday warned President Trump not to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions, fearing it could be the first step in an attempt to kill the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections ...

"If he fired Mueller, that would be a problem. It wouldn't pass the smell test," added a second House Republican, who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly. "The American people would demand we do something."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-warn-trump-dont-fire-jeff-sessions/article/2629703

July 29: Trump: Senate Republicans ‘Look Like Fools’ ... President attacks GOP in confusing tweetst
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/trump-senate-republicans-look-like-fools-should-change-rules

August 3: The Senate Finally Gives Trump His Administration ... Democrats relented on confirming dozens of presidential nominees to key government posts, days after the collapse of the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/senate-trump-nominees/535884/

August 4: How the Senate Is Subtly Resisting Trump by Not Taking a Recess ... By having "pro-forma" sessions, the Senate is technically not going to recess, which means the president can't fill open positions without their approval
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-senate-is-subtly-resisting-trump-by-not-taking-a-recess-w496036

August 4: The Senate Seems More Willing To Push Back Against Trump Than The House — Why?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-senate-seems-more-willing-to-push-back-against-trump-than-the-house-why/

August 4: How Senators Are Trying to Block Trump From Firing Mueller
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/how-senators-are-trying-to-block-trump-from-firing-mueller.html

August 9: At some point in 2019 (if not sooner) a Republican Senator may walk into the Oval Office and say to President Trump: “Mr. President, we don’t have the votes,” at which point the Trump presidency will end in a resignation or a conviction in the Senate.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/08/09/president-trump-needs-friends-in-the-senate/

August 18: Donald Trump is 'just six Senate votes from impeachment' ... Twelve Republican Senators have 'no fear of the President'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-impeachment-us-senate-six-votes-congress-president-house-russia-a7899636.html

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September 12: Bye-Bye, Blue Slip?

Republicans want to trash another century-old Senate norm to help Trump.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/09/will_republicans_trash_another_senate_tradition_to_help_trump.html

September 13: President Trump cheers long-shot Senate effort to revisit Affordable Care Act repeal ... http://www.thegazette.com/president-trump-cheers-long-shot-senate-effort-to-revisit-affordable-care-act-repeal-20170914
http://www.thegazette.com/president-trump-cheers-long-shot-senate-effort-to-revisit-affordable-care-act-repeal-20170914

October 5: President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the Senate Intelligence Committee investigate media companies that he believes are reporting information that is “just made up.”

“Why Isn’t the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!” the president tweeted from his personal account early Thursday.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/10/05/Trump-suggests-Senate-Intelligence-Committee-investigate-media-companies/stories/201710050296

October 8: Trump tweeted Sunday morning in a series of posts attacking [Senator Bob] Corker ... The senator responded to Trump's tweets with an insult later in the morning, calling the White House "an adult day care center" in a Twitter post.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/politics/donald-trump-bob-corker-tweets/index.html

October 8:
Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War III.” ... “He concerns me,” Mr. Corker added. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/08/us/politics/trump-corker.html

October 24: Trump: Bob Corker couldn’t get elected dog catcher
http://nypost.com/2017/10/24/trump-bob-corker-couldnt-get-elected-dog-catcher/

October 24: Donald Trump has now personally attacked 1 in 5 Republican senators
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/24/politics/trump-gop-senators-corker/index.html

October 25: Trump defies Republican critics with Senate 'love fest'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41743702

November 8: Senate Rushing to Confirm Trump Judges Who Back Voter Suppression, CAP Issue Brief Says ... President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees are moving through the Senate at a rapid pace despite major concerns about problematic records on voting rights, hateful rhetoric, and racial hostilities, according to a new issue brief from the Center for American Progress.

Despite the concerns, Trump has seen more than twice the number of Senate confirmations as former President Barack Obama did at this point. The Senate Judiciary Committee also is moving faster, holding hearings for more than two dozen of Trump’s nominees, nearly twice as many as Obama at this point.
https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2017/11/08/442446/release-senate-rushing-confirm-trump-judges-back-voter-suppression-cap-issue-brief-says/


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November 15: Ivanka Trump says there’s a “special place in hell” for child predators and says she has no reason to doubt the accounts of women who say they were treated inappropriately as teenagers by Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for Senate in Alabama.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/15/ivanka-trump-roy-moore-child-predators-244964

November 16: Al Franken Issues Apology After Accusation of Forcible Kissing and Groping ... during a 2006 U.S.O. tour of the Middle East before he took public office ... Mr. Franken, who has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate, almost immediately released an apology to the newscaster, Leeann Tweeden, who said that Mr. Franken forcibly kissed her during a rehearsal and groped her for a photo as she slept.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/us/politics/al-franken-sexual-harassment-groping-forcible-kissing.html


December 3: Political Appointee Tracker
https://ourpublicservice.org/issues/presidential-transition/political-appointee-tracker.php

December 4:
How Donald Trump is reportedly trying to block Mitt Romney’s potential Senate run ... As the former Massachusetts governor edges toward a campaign in Utah, he's running into an old foe.
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2017/12/04/donald-trump-steve-bannon-block-mitt-romneys-senate

December 5: Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, who's been adamantly opposed to Republican Alabama Senate hopeful Roy Moore, posted a photo Tuesday of a check with his signature on it that was addressed to Moore's Democratic rival, Doug Jones.

Flake's Twitter account posted the image of the $100 check along with the caption, "Country over Party."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/politics/jeff-flake-writes-doug-jones-check/index.html

December 12: Trump slams Senate critic with tweet called sexually suggestive

Half a dozen Democratic senators have called on President Donald Trump to resign over sexual misconduct allegations. On Tuesday morning he singled out one of them for attack — New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — and with a sexually suggestive tweet that immediately provoked new criticism.Trump wrote that “Lightweight” Gillibrand “would come to my office ‘begging’ for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them).”
http://www.theday.com/article/20171212/NWS13/171219791

December 13: Democrat wins US Senate seat in Alabama setback for Trump
http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/democrat-wins-us-senate-seat-alabama-setback-trump/

December 14: Donald Trump has claimed he never believed failed Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore could win in Alabama, saying the "deck was stacked against him".

Mr Trump endorsed Mr Moore despite a number of sexual harassment allegations against the former Alabama justice.

The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strane [Alabama Republican who lost in September runoff] (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election," the U.S. President said in a Twitter post on Wednesday.

"I was right! Roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him!"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-roy-moore-alabama-senate-election-twitter-not-able-to-win-updates-latest-a8107321.html

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December 26: A major Utah newspaper slammed the state's senior senator, Orrin Hatch, in a scathing editorial Monday, calling on him not to seek re-election.

The Salt Lake Tribune, labeling the Republican senator "Utahn of the Year," took issue with Hatch's role in President Donald Trump's decision to shrink national monuments in Utah and his role in the GOP's package of tax cuts and reform.

The paper's editorial board also said its position on Hatch was due to "his utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power."

The Tribune's criticism of Hatch is tied closely to Hatch's support of Trump, a controversial figure in heavily Republican Utah.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/26/politics/orrin-hatch-utah-salt-lake-tribune/index.html

December 29: Republicans are mulling changing the Senate's rules to speed up consideration of President Trump's nominees.

GOP senators want to cut down the amount of debate time needed to confirm hundreds of the president’s picks, arguing Democrats are using the Senate’s rulebook to stonewall and slow-walk nominees and the GOP agenda.

Republicans have been privately discussing the potential changes for months, but support for the move appears to be growing amid mounting frustration about the pace of nomination votes.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/366260-senate-gop-seeks-to-change-rules-for-trump-picks

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Undated: Trump cabinet nominations
https://www.senate.gov/reference/Trump_cabinet.htm

January 5: Two Republican senators are asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Christopher Steele, the author of a controversial opposition research dossier on President Trump

Sens. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray asking that they investigate if the former British intelligence agent lied to federal authorities. 
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/367631-gop-senators-request-criminal-investigation-of-trump-dossier-author

January 9: Donald Trump’s Judicial Takeover Can Only Be Stopped if Democrats Win the Senate
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/trump-judicial-nominees-2018-senate-democrats/

January 11: Trump's Racism Rears Its Ugly Head as Bipartisan Senate Group Proposes Principles of a DACA Deal.
https://www.nilc.org

January 21: Senate Republicans Reject Trump’s Call To End The Filibuster Rule ... The president tweeted that a way to end the shutdown would be to simply change the Senate procedures.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-filibuster-reject-trump_us_5a64d801e4b0dc592a09d354

January 25: Nominations: Where are President Trump and the Senate Taking the Courts?
https://fedsoc.org/events/nominations-where-are-president-trump-and-the-senate-taking-the-courts

February 1: One of the few Senate Democrats who has Trump’s ear is feuding with Mike Pence ... Sen. Joe Manchin: “The Vice President’s comments are exactly why Washington sucks.”
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/1/16959450/joe-manchin-mike-pence-west-virginia-senate-2018

February 1: Trump Implores Senate To Vote On Hardline Immigration Bill ... Trump said they would either have something that is “fair and equitable and secure, or we’ll have nothing at all.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-senate-immigration_us_5a733cade4b01ce33eb09719

February 2: Mitt Romney to Make Utah Senate Race Announcement on Feb. 15

Mitt Romney took another step toward running for a U.S. Senate seat from Utah when he tweeted on Thursday about an upcoming announcement regarding the 2018 race. Utah’s Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, announced in January that he would retire at the end of the year, a move many saw as clearing the way for Romney to seek his seat.
http://time.com/5129796/mitt-romney-utah-senate-announcement-orrin-hatch/ 

February 6: Duckworth calls out 'Cadet Bone Spurs' after Trump's 'treasonous' remark

An Illinois Democrat who was seriously wounded in Iraq derisively referred to President Donald Trump's draft deferments after Trump called Democrats "treasonous" for not clapping during his State of the Union speech.

"We don't live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. I swore an oath—in the military and in the Senate—to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap," Sen. Tammy Duckworth tweeted Monday evening.

Duckworth, an Army veteran who lost her legs while serving in Iraq, appeared to be referencing Trump's draft deferments. Trump received five draft deferments throughout the Vietnam War, and on one occasion, Trump received a deferment because of bone spurs.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/06/politics/tammy-duckworth-cadet-bone-spurs/index.html

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February 8: Trump's Fed nominee barely escapes Senate committee vot
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-fed-nominee-barely-escapes-senate-committee-vote/article/2648508

February 9: Senate Democrats in Trump States Raise More Than GOP Challengers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-09/senate-democrats-in-trump-states-raise-more-than-gop-challengers

February 9: How One Republican Broke With Tradition to Help Trump Confirm More Judges ... As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley decided to overturn an unwritten rule that both home-state senators had to consent to a judicial pick for it to move forward. Using paperwork known as “blue slips,” senators from the minority party could use the process to halt the president’s more controversial judge picks.
http://time.com/5141506/chuck-grassley-blue-slips-trump-judges/

February 9: Donald Trump Joins With Russian Bots to Trash Mark Warner on Twitter ... Both the president and pro-Russian interests are promoting a Fox News story revealing the Democratic senator’s texts.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/donald-trump-joins-with-russian-bots-to-trash-mark-warner-on-twitter/

February 10: Democrats dominating Senate fundraising battle

Nine of the 10 Democrats up for reelection in Trump states raised $1 million. None of their GOP opponents hit that mark.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/10/democrats-senate-fundraising-2018-402087

February 11: Election may test anti-Trump winds, affect Senate control
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/election-may-test-anti-trump-winds-affect-senate-control/

February 11: Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is undecided as to whether to seek reelection next year, according to the senator, a development that threatens to reshape the Senate’s power structure and Republican attempts to keep the majority.

Corker, who chairs the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is still considering whether to run for a third term next year. His retirement would cause a reshuffling on top Senate committees and potentially tighten the race for control of the Senate, which heavily favors Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/11/bob-corker-considers-retiring-242553

February 11: Sen. Bob Corker is standing by his decision not to seek re-election, a senior adviser says
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/11/sen-bob-corker-sticking-his-decision-not-seek-re-election-his-office-says/327432002/

February 11: Senator wants docs from estate Trump sold to Russian billionaire
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/senator-docs-estate-trump-sold-russian-billionaire-article-1.3814034

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February 15: Trump administration eviscerates bipartisan immigration plan as Senate shows little progress

The Trump administration offered venomous criticism of a bipartisan immigration plan Thursday, as senators struggled to reach a consensus on a bill to protect young immigrants from deportation and boost border security.

The Senate later blocked that measure and another favored by President Donald Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/trump-administration-criticizes-senate-daca-immigration-plan.html

February 15: President Trump rejects bipartisan immigration efforts, compounding Senate bills on DACA

... the president’s demand that Republicans heed his criteria for any legislation he would sign, including dramatic cuts in legal immigration, created new doubts about whether the Senate could reach consensus.

“We can’t hide, we can’t run away from it and I’m hopeful we’ll do it this week,” Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, told reporters.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/President-Trump-rejects-bipartisan-immigration-12614686.php

May 16: Senate committee agrees with intelligence community assessment of election meddling, breaking with GOP House investigation
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/senate-committee-agrees-intelligence-community-election-meddling/index.html

May 16: New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand spoke from the Senate floor Thursday trying to force Senate leadership's hand to advance sexual harassment legislation, which would overhaul how such complaints are handled on Capitol Hill.

"Enough is enough, we should do better," she continued. "We have waited a hundred days and we should not have to wait any longer, so I urge my colleagues to do the right thing now to support this bill, fix this system here in Congress that is failing ... on this issue of sexual harassment. This one is as easy as it gets. So lets have a vote. And lets pass it."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/kirsten-gillibrand-sexual-harassment-legislation/index.html

May 21: Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday he will run for re-election on an agenda that would prioritize working families.

The campaign said Sanders would kick off his re-election bid with a series of rallies across Vermont next month.

Sanders ... is among the list of possible contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 ....

"Our struggle to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent — a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice — must continue," Sanders wrote in a statement released by the campaign.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article211577659.html

May 24: Senate Bill on Congressional Sexual Misconduct Has Limited Reforms
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/24/headlines/senate_bill_on_congressional_sexual_misconduct_has_limited_reforms

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June 5: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Tuesday the Senate will skip much of its treasured August recess to press ahead confirming the President's nominees and passing government spending bills.

The move follows months of frustration by GOP leaders -- and President Donald Trump -- over the countless Democratic filibusters that have dramatically slowed progress in the Senate.

McConnell's decision upset Democrats, many of whom are up for re-election and would rather be home campaigning.

"The fact that the Republicans have resorted to keeping Democrats off the campaign trail in August shows you just how nervous they are about November," a senior Senate Democratic aide told CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/mitch-mcconnell-cancels-august-recess/index.html

July 26: Senators offer bipartisan IRS reform bill
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/398986-senators-offer-bipartisan-irs-reform-bill

September 2: The Senate’s final verdict on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh – whose high-stakes, high-wire confirmation hearing begins Tuesday – will hinge on the views of just a handful of lawmakers.

As it stands, Republicans hold a razor-thin, 50-49 majority with one vacancy. Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey will soon appoint a successor to the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., but even then the GOP majority can suffer few defections.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/02/in-kavanaugh-confirmation-fight-just-handful-senators-hold-key.html

September 28: Trump on Kavanaugh delay: Senate has to 'do what they think is right'
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/28/politics/white-house-brett-kavanaugh-votes/index.html

October 6: The Senate confirmed Brett M. Kavanaugh as the 114th Supreme Court justice on Saturday by one of the narrowest margins in history amid mass protests, ending a vitriolic battle over his nomination and solidifying a conservative majority on the court. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kavanaugh-vote-divided-senate-poised-to-confirm-trumps-nominee/2018/10/06/64bf69fa-c969-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html?utm_term=.69a42a1dd5d1

October 11: Senate heads home to campaign after deal on Trump nominees
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/411087-senate-heads-home-to-campaign-after-deal-on-trump-nominees

October 26: Trump officials irked that Border Patrol union endorsed 3 Senate Democrats

It's an “egregious” action on “the existential issue of this election,” one White House official told POLITICO.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/26/border-patrol-union-senate-democrats-894886

October 27: Trump, Republicans Continue Remaking The Federal Courts — Even As Senate On Recess
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/27/660643999/trump-republicans-continue-remaking-the-federal-courts-even-as-senate-on-recess

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December 17: At the turn of the 18th century, a newly elected president of the United States—only the second in the nation’s then-brief history—cautioned the American people about “the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” In particular, John Adams pointed to threats from abroad, warning that if a changed election outcome “can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violence, by terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who govern us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves.” Speaking before a joint session of Congress, he thus pleaded with the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to “[preserve] our Constitution from its natural enemies,” including “the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments.”1

The threat of foreign influence over our elections did not wane in the intervening 220 years: Today, the United States has a president whose election was aided by the fraud and intrigue of a foreign nation. Americans who watched how President Donald Trump, in the words of the late Sen. John McCain, “abased himself … abjectly before a tyrant” in Helsinki, cannot be faulted for wondering whether John Adams’s long-ago warning has become a reality.2
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/12/17/464235/following-the-money/

December 22: U.S. government partially shuts down as Congress resists funding Trump’s border wall

McConnell adjourns Senate until Dec. 27
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/government-shutdown-draws-closer-as-lawmakers-wrangle-over-border-funding-2018-12-21

December 27:
Government shutdown, Day 6: House, Senate adjourn until Monday with no sign of a deal to end impasse with Trump

The Senate returned to work for the first time since Saturday but quickly adjourned after scheduling no votes, signaling that little, if any, progress has been made toward resolving the budget impasse that shut down a quarter of the federal government.

President Donald Trump shows no sign of backing down from his demand for funding for a wall along the nation’s southern border.

“Whatever it takes,” Trump said Wednesday when asked how long the shutdown could last.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/27/government-shutdown-no-end-sight-standoff-enters-sixth-day/2415605002/

December 27: US government shutdown over border wall will last into 2019

Both houses adjourn without acting to end closure, as Democrats prepare to assume control of Congress next week
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/27/us-government-shutdown-continue-2019-trump

December 27: Shutdown affects court cases that involve Trump

The partial government shutdown has prompted the chief judge of Manhattan federal courts to suspend work on civil cases involving U.S. government lawyers. The order suspends action in several civil lawsuits in which President Donald Trump is a defendant.

Judge Colleen McMahon said in a written order that the suspension will remain in effect until the business day after the president signs a budget appropriation law restoring Justice Department funding.
http://www.kplctv.com/2018/12/27/latest-trump-returns-his-attention-shutdown/

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