by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, December 19.
- Australia heatwave: All-time temperature record broken again (This is the global climate crisis.)
- China announces new tariff exemptions for US chemical and oil products
- India Bans Public Protests to Quell Rising Anger Against Citizenship Law
- Trump Administration Battles New Sanctions on Russia
- U.S. Envoy to Ukraine Was Asked to Step Aside Ahead of Pompeo Visit
- Rudy Giuliani Flew To Ukraine On A Budget Flight. But He Left On A Private Jet.
- Putin: Trump impeachment ‘far-fetched,’ Senate will acquit (Trump’s “handler” not happy.)
- Trump is impeached by the House, creating an indelible mark on his presidency
- Pelosi threatens to delay Senate impeachment trial (“Some legal scholars have suggested she could consider refusing to transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate.”)
- Impeaching Trump is just the end of the beginning
- In the End, Impeachment Was the Only Choice
- Trump joins the ‘losers’ of presidential history (“Congress deals a blow to his delusions of greatness.”)
- Pelosi says House may withhold impeachment articles, delaying Senate trial
- Trump impeachment: Undisputed evidence that he abused his power
- What happens next in the impeachment of President Trump?
- As goes his presidency, so goes his impeachment: Trump disrupts and divides
- Why the House’s impeachment of Trump was proper and necessary
- Impeachment won’t force Trump out of office. But it matters for our republic (“We must zoom out from our partisan moment, and instead look at this event in the broad sweep of American history”)
- Will McConnell Let the Senate Hold a Fair Impeachment Trial?
- Trump Has Been Impeached. Republicans Are Following Him Down.
- Impeachment split screen: As House votes in Washington, Trump rallies in Michigan
- Impeachment day for Trump: A bruised ego, a Twitter eruption and a winding rally
- Donald Trump Made His Own Impeachment Inevitable
- Trump’s Scarlet Letter (“A historic House vote has made Donald Trump the third president in U.S. history to be impeached. Tonight caps a two-month investigation, but it was years in the making.”)
- The Inevitability of Donald Trump’s Impeachment (“His decades-long record of misdeeds and wrongdoing made this moment inescapable.”)
- Nancy Pelosi’s pin at the impeachment debate was a declaration: The republic will survive this
- hy Didn’t Republicans Try Harder to Defend Trump? (“Their case on the House floor was illogical, irrelevant and based on flat-out lies.”)
- Inside the decision to impeach Trump: How both parties wrestled with a constitutional crisis
- Tulsi Gabbard Votes ‘Present’ in Impeachment Against Trump
- Trump pays a historic price for doing business his way: Impeachment (“Analysis: While the president and GOP loyalists insist he is a blameless victim, there will now be a big black asterisk emblazoned next to his name in the ledger of American history.”)
- Impeachment Is a Permanent Stain on Trump’s Presidency (“The inevitable acquittal in the Senate won’t annul a verdict that’s already been rendered.”)
- First in POLITICO Playbook: Mark Meadows to leave Congress, plus what McConnell will say on impeachment
- Rep. Debbie Dingell Responds to Trump Suggesting Her Late Husband is in Hell
- Graham warns Giuliani: ‘I hope you know what you’re talking about’ (Spoiler: he doesn’t!)
- Trump’s Post-Impeachment Rally Was His Longest and Strangest Yet
- Mainstream media headlines about Trump’s unhinged letter show just how bad things have gotten
- A President Impeached, and a Nation Convulsed (“The impeachment battles over Andrew Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton came at turning points in the American story. The time that produced President Trump has proved to be another one.”)
- The Impeachment Debate Took Place in Two Parallel Universes
- GOP congressman: Impeachment is like Pearl Harbor, which is like birth control
- Court voids Obamacare mandate — but not the whole law
- The Republican judges who were widely expected to kill Obamacare got cold feet
- Will Impeachment Drive Trump Batty? (“Check the belfry. Maybe things could get worse.”)
- Pentagon’s Policy Chief Under Fire as Senior Officials Head for the Exits
- Fox’s rabid praise for Trump’s unhinged letter shows how we got here (The “mainstream media” that normalized this letter are at least as damaging.)
- Five big end-of-year wins for Democrats
- House Republicans Liken Impeachment to Pearl Harbor, Say Trump Treated Worse Than Jesus (These people are off their rockers.)
- December Democratic Debate: A Smaller, Whiter Stage
- Chris Cillizza again shows why the Beltway press is the problem (Your news organization really can’t have credibility if it employs/features someone was godawful as Chris Cillizza.)
- Virginia voters almost evenly split on Trump impeachment according to new poll
- Virginians in U.S. House vote along partisan lines on impeachment; in speeches, Spanberger and Luria cite their national security backgrounds
- Like most of Congress, Va. delegation splits down party lines on impeaching Trump (Yep, the Republicans are violating their oaths of office.)
- In a ‘Deeply Sad Day,’ Spanberger Votes to Impeach Trump
- Western Va. GOP congressmen follow GOP in voting against impeachment of Trump (The worst of the worst.)
- 14 Democratic Presidential Candidates Qualify for Virginia Primary Ballot (Booker, Castro, Sanders, Warren, Williamson, Bennett, Biden, Klobuchar, Gabbard, Patrick, Buttigieg, Yang, Steyer, Bloomberg)
- Video: Virginia’s Congressional Democrats Deliver Floor Speeches in Support of Impeaching Donald Trump
- AG Mark Herring Statement on 5th Circuit Ruling that Threatens Virginians’ Healthcare
- A relaxed Gov. Ralph Northam reflects on scandal-charged year (“Democratic victories at the ballot box and a focus on regaining public trust after a blackface scandal have boosted the Virginia governor.”)
- Want to Boost Educational Outcomes, Governor Northam? Then Green the Schools!
- Gov. Northam Announces Replacement of “9,600 Highway Lights” with LEDs
- EDITORIAL: Economic inequality in state government
- Rural Virginians rail against gun controls (“They are in a minority”)
- Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax “Planning to Run” for Governor in 2021
- A white nationalist created a hoax about gun confiscation that is leading to calls for violence on social media and message boards (“A noted white nationalist fabricated a claim about guns and Virginia’s governor that has spread in the past week throughout social media and on far-right message boards. The hoax has drawn tens of thousands of engagements and views, and some have issued calls to violence in response.”)
- Fredy Burgos’ Candidacy for Virginia 11th CD GOP Chair Epitomizes the Unhinged, Bigoted Trump Republican Party
- Northam proposes cutting budget for Confederate grave maintenance in favor of black cemetery fund
- Nancy Guy officially declared winner of 83rd House race after judges rule on 3 disputed ballots (“Guy’s final margin of victory over Republican incumbent Chris Stolle was 40 votes.”)
- Editorial: Have Democrats already overreached on guns? (Roanoke Times does “both sides-ism”
- Fairfax prosecutors seeking indictments against Park Police officers in fatal shooting of Bijan Ghaisar (“After the Justice Department declined to file charges, Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Raymond Morrogh picked up the case with two weeks left in his term.” Thank you, Ray Morrogh!)
- Metro, Virginia kick off major construction on Potomac Yard Metro station
- Arlington County Board Passes Zoning Amendments To Allow For More Elder Care Housing
- UPDATED: Stafford County joins Second Amendment sanctuary list
- High school football coach who inspired ‘Remember the Titans’ dies at 84 (R.I.P.)
- Portsmouth is suing the city’s sheriff, trying to force him to send inmates to Hampton Roads Regional Jail
- RTD reporter Patrick Wilson to partner with ProPublica for yearlong investigative project
- Chesterfield Planning Commission declines to endorse hotel, retail, housing project across from courthouse complex
- Brace yourself. Today is the coldest of the season, starting with bitter wind chills.
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