Roll Call - Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are poised to square off at a hearing Wednesday on a long-running, but so far unsuccessful, Republican push to impeach judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Republican House members have filed impeachment resolutions against a myriad of judges this Congress after rulings against immigration policies, Trump administration funding decisions and more.
But those efforts have stalled in the House, amid concerns that moving forward would break with a centuries-old tradition of not ousting judges based solely on their decisions.
Senators will have an opportunity to weigh in on the debate during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing Wednesday entitled, “Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable.”
The Hill - Republican senators are demanding answers about who at the Pentagon ordered a follow-up strike to kill the initial survivors of a missile strike against a suspected Venezuelan drug boat on Sept. 2, a potential violation of international law.
NBC News - President Donald Trump said that he would pardon Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, who was indicted last year on bribery and money laundering charges. The president also said he would pardon Cuellar's wife, Imelda.
NPR - Yesterday’s [Tennessee] race showed that Republicans were able to motivate their base voters to head to the polls without Trump being on the ballot, NPR's Stephen Fowler says.
The Hill - More than two dozen GOP lawmakers have already announced their decision to leave their seats at the end of the term, and the number is expected to grow in the coming weeks as lawmakers visit their families for the holidays, complicating Republican efforts to fend off a blue wave and keep their slim majority.
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