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RESOLUTION AT LINK. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday released a resolution laying out the ground rules for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. Trump's team and the House of Representatives have until 9 a.m. on Wednesday to file any motions. The exception being motions to subpoena witnesses or documents. All responses filed to any motions have to be in by 11 a.m. on Wednesday. The trial will begin at 1 p.m. on Wednesday. The House will have two days to make their case for impeachment but their time allotment cannot exceed 24 hours. After that, Trump's legal team...

The same congressional panel that launched a preliminary inquiry into Weiner-gate this week has been diddling around with several other Democratic ethics scandals for years. These aren't foxes guarding the henhouse. They're sloths guarding the foxhole. The House Ethics Committee is now reportedly probing into Twitter-holic Democratic New York Rep. Anthony Weiner's possible abuse of government resources while sending pervy messages and photos to young women across the country. The latest batch of Weiner's leaked social-media self-portraits -- more cheesecake than beefcake -- showed him in various states of undress at the congressional gym. From what other public buildings has...

Democrats are "increasingly distrustful" of Gov. Spitzer and fear he'll use the same dirty-trick tactics on them as he's used on Republican Leader Joseph Bruno, Assemblyman Michael Benjamin (D-Bronx), a prominent Democrat charged. "......there is a wide and growing dislike of the governor among legislators, who are increasingly distrustful of him....His attacks on Sen. Bruno make many of us feel that if we crossed Spitzer, we could look forward to some of the same type of treatment. The Post revealed Democrat Sen. Malcolm Smith was secretly plotting with Spitzer to seek a tax-evasion investigation of Bruno by the IRS.

The full Senate could consider the Supreme Court nominee within days. Votes are likely to follow party lines, with a few exceptions. WASHINGTON — Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, is expected to clear his first congressional hurdle today when the Senate Judiciary Committee votes to recommend his confirmation — setting the stage for consideration in the full Senate as early as this week.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has fined two leadership PACs associated with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in response to a Complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) on October 25, 2002. The FEC also has fined three campaigns that failed to return excessive contributions from Pelosi’s PACs within 60 days, as required by law. Under conciliation agreements reached with the FEC, Pelosi’s two committees — PAC to the Future and Team Majority — will pay $21,000. Julie Thomas for Congress Campaign Committee (D–IA) and Van Hollen for Congress (D–MD) will each pay $2,500, and Joe...

East St. Louis political figure Kelvin Ellis admitted in court Wednesday that he plotted to discredit a potential witness in a vote fraud case against him - but he insisted it was someone else who broached the subject of killing her. The guilty plea to three counts of obstruction of justice marked Ellis' third conviction on federal charges in four months. In June a jury found him and four others guilty of vote fraud; in August he pleaded guilty of tax evasion. Ellis, 55, formerly a Democratic Party leader and director of regulatory affairs for the city, has been jailed...

Democratic Dirty Tricks Escalate Democratic Lawyers Send Letters to Nader Oregon Petitioners Threatening Incarceration and $100,000 Fines Washington, DC: Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader today sharply criticized lawyers working in coalition with the Democratic Party, for threatening Nader/Camejo signature gatherers in Oregon. “This is an escalation of the dirty tricks of the Democrats. Threatening signature gatherers with a felony, five years in jail, or a $100,000 fine is a direct attack on the right to petition protected by the Constitution,” said Nader. “The Democrats are showing they have no respect for democracy and will do anything to keep Nader/Camejo off...