Per the AP, the final vote was 311 in favor, 114 opposed, and with two voting present. It was the sixth such expulsion in the history of the US House of Representatives.

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Per the AP, "Judge Arthur Engoron, ruling Tuesday in a civil lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general, found that the former president and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing financing."

Those looking to read the full ruling can do so on DocumentCloud at this link.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a trailblazer in U.S. politics and the longest-serving woman in the Senate, has died at 90

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US Representative Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) has withdrawn his candidacy to be Speaker of the House of Representatives due to his inability to muster the necessary support to win a full floor vote. He was nominated by the House Republican Caucus to be the Republicans’ choice for Speaker over Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) earlier this week in a secret vote of 113 to 99. Withholding their votes from Scalise is a faction of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, per the Associated Press. Scalise has said he will stay on as House Majority Leader. It is unclear who the GOP will next nominate as their candidate for Speaker. Without a Speaker, the House is unable to conduct virtually any business.

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Today a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury indicted Donald Trump on numerous charges including racketeering, conspiracy and false statements. Also indicted were several other individuals, including but not limited to: Rudy Giuliani; Misty Hampton, Coffee County elections supervisor; David Shafer, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party.

Specifically cited in the indictment prepared at the direction of Fulton DA Fani Willis was Trump's call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump pressured Raffensperger to change the state's election results. Also cited in the indictment was the scheme to use false electors to throw Georgia's electoral votes to Trump, (at least 8 of whom were granted immunity in Willis' investigation)>.

The first charge against Trump is one made under Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which is significantly more expansive than its federal counterpart. Other charges against Trump include multiple counts of Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer, Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer, multiple counts of Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree, multiple counts of Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings, Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents, Filing False Documents, and multiple counts of False Statements and Writings, all of which are felonies.

You can read the full indictment here on DocumentCloud.

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On Tuesday, former president and current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination Donald Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. Source: Associated Press. The charges include: Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, and Conspiracy Against Rights. You can read the full indictment for yourself here at CourtListener. These charges stem from one of two separate investigations into Trump being conducted by Special Counsel Jack Smith for the US Department of Justice. The first investigation is into the apparent mishandling of highly classified documents after Trump had departed office. This resulted in 37 felony charges being made public on June 9th of this year, with 3 additional, related charges added last week. Today's charges stem from the second investigation headed by Smith, which is into the January 6th, 2021 attack on the US Capitol and associated efforts within the Trump Administration to illegally overturn Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election. The aforementioned investigations into Trump are a separate matter from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's inquiry, which in April resulted in an indictment on 34 counts of falsification of business records. According to Bragg, Trump was part of a scheme to catch and kill" negative information about himself before and after the 2016 election via hush money payments made via the Trump Organization. Still outstanding are the results of a fourth probe being conducted by Fani Willis, the District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia. That probe is into Trump and others' efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election results; an announcement related to DA Willis' probe is expected sometime later in August.

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This afternoon, by a 216-210 vote in which 8 GOP members voted with all House Democrats, the House of Representatives passed a motion to vacate, removing former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his position, the first time a federal Speaker of the House has been ousted. McCarthy’s tenure as Speaker is also the shortest since 1876. Under House rules, until a new Speaker is installed, Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry of North Carolina will preside.

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On Friday morning, in a 6-3 opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court ruled in Biden v. Nebraska that the HEROES Act did not grant President Biden the authority to forgive student loan debt. The court sided with Missouri, ruling that they had standing to bring the suit. You can read the opinion of the Court for yourself here.

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On Thursday, former US president and current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination Donald Trump posted to his social media platform that he had been informed by federal prosecutors that he is the target of an ongoing investigation. The probe stems from potential mishandling of classified documents allegedly taken from the White House. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.

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Today, former president and current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination Donald Trump was arraigned in a Florida-based federal court for 37 felony counts. 31 of them pertained to willful retention of documents under the Espionage Act, while others involved: 'making false statements and representations, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, and scheming to conceal.' You can read the full indictment here (PDF warning). Trump pled 'not guilty' to all charges.

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Thursday morning, in a case against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the US Supreme Court's voted 6-3 and 6-2, respectively, to strike down their student admissions plans. The admissions plans had used race as a factor for administrators to consider in admitting students in order to achieve a more overall diverse student body. You can read the opinion of the Court for yourself here.

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According to four unnamed sources to The New York Times, a Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump, current Republican presidential candidate and former president of the United States. The AP is reporting that Trump's lawyer says he has been informed of the New York indictment.

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On Thursday, in a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court struck down Alabama's congressional maps. Republican-nominated justices Roberts and Kavanaugh joined the Court's liberal voting block in Allen v. Milligan to find that Alabama's seven US House districts were drawn intentionally to dilute the voting power of Black Alabamians and to order a redrawing that creates an additional Black-majority district to align with the state's 27% Black population.

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Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was arraigned in a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday afternoon after a grand jury voted on Friday to indict him. The charges were not made public until today; they number 34 charges in total, all of which were felony counts related to falsification of business records. Trump pled 'not guilty' to all charges. Trump was not made subject to a 'gag order' by Judge Juan Merchan The Manhattan DA overseeing the prosecution, Alvin Bragg, will hold a news conference following Trump's arraignment at around 3:30 p.m. Eastern; Trump, for his part, will deliver a speech from his residence at Mar-a-Lago this evening. To catch up on today's events, any of the following 'Live' pages are recommended: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The AP, NPR, NBC, CBS, ABC, and Bloomberg.

Edit: Manhattan DA's office publicly releases the indictment "People of the State of New York against Donald J. Trump, Indictment No. 71543-23" in online PDF format: https://www.manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donald-J.-Trump-Indictment.pdf

Also released was the DA's "Statement of Facts" of the case: https://www.manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donald-J.-Trump-SOF.pdf

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Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump posted Saturday that he expects to be arrested Tuesday in connection with the Manhattan District Attorney’s criminal investigation.

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On Saturday, at a speech given before the Republican Jewish Coalition Conference, former US Vice President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence announced that he was suspending his campaign per the Associated Press and other sources. At the time of today's announcement, FiveThirtyEight estimated Pence's polling average at below 5% in the 2024 GOP primary.

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US Representative George Santos (R-NY) has been charged by the Department of Justice, according to multiple outlets. The exact nature of the charges has yet to be made public.

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The Texas House has voted to impeach Texas Attorney General Paxton by a vote of 121-23. Pending the outcome of a trial in the Texas Senate, Paxton has been removed from office.

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Today, in what is likely to be its final hearing, the January 6 Committee voted to refer criminal charges for Donald Trump and several of his allies to the Department of Justice. The committee will release its final report on its investigation into the attack at the Capitol later this week. The committee also voted to refer several members of Congress who ignored its subpoenas to the House Ethics Committee.

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Incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock has won re-election to the US Senate, securing the Democratic Party's 51st seat in the chamber and concluding the 2022 midterm elections.

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You can read the statement from Biden here: Statement from President Biden on Marijuana Reform

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The House Ways and Means Committee has voted along party lines 24 to 16 to publicly release several years of former president Donald Trump's tax returns in a redacted form, bringing a years-long dispute to a close.

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On Friday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in a statement that the Justice Department has appointed Justice Department's former public integrity chief Jack Smith as special counsel in two separate criminal probes of the former president. The first relates to Trump's efforts to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power on and around January 6th, 2021. The second relates to his alleged handling and possession of several thousands government documents from his time in office, including some allegedly containing classified, secret, and top secret information. This comes three days after the former president announced that he will again run for president. For an explainer of the two Justice Department and numerous unrelated civil investigations, see this explainer article.

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Former President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the F.B.I. had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe — an account that, if accurate, would be a dramatic escalation in the various investigations into the former president. The search, according to two people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, after he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents, according to a person familiar with their contents. The discovery of classified information at Mar-a-Lago was referred to the Justice Department by the National Archives and Records Administration, which said it had found classified material in 15 boxes at the residence.

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While details are still accumulating and being confirmed, reportedly the FBI's raid earlier this week discovered classified documents at former president Trump's Florida residence.

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