Trump repeated the lies about electoral fraud which fuelled the attack at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday. Two senior Republicans, Senator Chuck Grassley and Governor Kim Reynolds, stood with him.
On Friday, in a letter announcing their client’s decision not to comply with his subpoena, attorneys for Bannon attempted to assert executive privilege themselves. Observers pointed out that executive privilege applies to communications involving the president the White House wishes to keep...
Schiff also greeted a decision by the Biden administration not to invoke executive privilege over documents pertaining to the Capitol attack.
Liz Cheney of Wyoming, one of only two Republicans on the committee, has also said it will enforce subpoenas
The 6 January committee, the California congressman said, “wants to make sure that these witnesses come in and testify, and we are prepared to go forward and urge the justice department to criminally prosecute anyone who does not do their lawful duty”.
Amid fears that the panel will not seek to enforce its will, Adam Schiff, a member of the panel as well as chairman of the House intelligence committee, spoke to CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday.
The House select committee investigating the deadly assault on the US Capitol on 6 January is prepared to urge federal prosecution of former aides to Donald Trump who refuse to comply with subpoenas, a key panel member said.
The interior secretary, Deb Haaland, the first Indigenous Cabinet secretary, traveled to Utah in April to visit the monuments, recommending they be returned to their original size.
Jennifer Rokala, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, a conservation group, applauded Biden’s decision and said she hoped it marked a step towards his goal of conserving at least 30% of US lands and ocean by 2030.
The Utah senator Mitt Romney also criticized Biden by saying in a tweet he had “squandered the opportunity to build consensus” and find a permanent solution for the monuments.
Cox’s statement did not include specifics on how much of the monuments will be restored, and the White House and the US interior department declined immediate comment. An official announcement from Joe Biden is expected soon.
However, Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, expressed disappointment in the administration’s decision over the monuments, which have been at the center of a long-running public lands tug-of-war between presidential administrations. The governor noted he had offered to work with the admi...
However, Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, expressed disappointment in the administration’s decision over the monuments, which have been at the center of a long-running public lands tug-of-war between presidential administrations. The governor noted he had offered to work with the admi...
The Arizona representative Raul Grijalva, a Democrat and chairman of the House natural resources committee, praised Biden in a statement, saying the move to restore protections for the monuments showed his administration’s commitment to “conserving our public lands and respecting the voices o...
Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante cover vast expanses of southern Utah where red rocks reveal petroglyphs and cliff dwellings and distinctive twin buttes bulge from a grassy valley. The Trump administration had cut Bears Ears, on lands considered sacred to Indigenous peoples, by 85% an...
The move marks a victory for environmental advocates and indigenous leaders who had fought for years to restore protections for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments.
Joe Biden will expand two sprawling national monuments in Utah that were downsized significantly under Donald Trump, the state’s governor said on Thursday.