The Constitution gives the House of Representatives “the sole power of impeachment” — but it confers that authority without an instruction manual. Now comes the battle royal over what it means.
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House lawmakers announced Tuesday they would subpoena Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, after the State Department abruptly barred him testifying as part of the congressional impeachment inquiry this morning.
Read moreLawmakers spearheading President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry released a trove of text messages late Thursday they say outline the administration’s pressure campaign on Ukraine to investigate political opponents of Trump in exchange for U.S. military aid.
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The White House is preparing to formally object to Democrats’ impeachment inquiry as soon as Friday, saying it won’t cooperate with the probe because it was initiated without a vote of the House.
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Ratcheting up the impeachment inquiry, the head of the House Oversight Committee warned the White House on Wednesday to expect a formal subpoena for records related to President Donald Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky.
Read moreA conversation between presidents that fired up an impeachment probe, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listened in.
Read moreSecretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a fiery letter to House lawmakers Tuesday saying he will use all means at his disposal to stop what he sees as congressional “bullying” of State Department officials in Democrats’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
Read moreA longtime Texas judge was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday in connection with a bribery scandal that brought down the once-prominent Democrat’s two-decade judicial career.
Read moreAttorneys in Washington, D.C., federal court geared up Wednesday for the November trial of Trump associate Roger Stone, as the presiding judge tackled pending motions from both sides, including whether to allow prosecutors to screen a clip from “The Godfather Part II.”
Read moreAs they investigate President Donald Trump, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee will hold their first official hearing in what they are calling an impeachment investigation.
Read moreRamping up pressure on the White House and a key figure in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, House Democrats asked a federal judge Wednesday to order former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before Congress.
Read moreAn enigmatic but central character in the saga of the Russian meddling in the 2016 election, former special counsel Robert Mueller will go before lawmakers Wednesday to testify about the pattern of obstruction snaking its way through the White House.
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Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee who will question former special counsel Robert Mueller next week plan to focus on a narrow set of episodes laid out in his report, to direct Americans’ attention to what they see as the most egregious examples of President Donald Trump’s conduct.
Read moreAdding to R. Kelly’s pile of legal troubles, the R&B star was hit with federal sex crime charges in two jurisdictions this week.
Read moreRamping up its investigation into whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, the House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to issue subpoenas to a litany of current and former Trump administration officials, including the president’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.
Read moreJurors returned a guilty verdict Thursday in a federal corruption trial of former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, former deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, stemming from their attempt to frame a family member with theft.
Read moreMichael Enriquez, 55, of San Antonio, was sentenced Thursday to 27 months in federal prison for lying to the FBI by falsely implicating a federal bankruptcy judge in prostitution, and obstructing justice by fabricating emails and to corroborate his lies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said.
Read moreFormer top White House adviser Hope Hicks is refusing to answer questions related to her time in the White House in an interview with the House Judiciary Committee, dimming Democrats’ chances of obtaining new or substantive information about President Donald Trump as part of their investigation into obstruction of justice.
Read moreFormer White House communications director Hope Hicks has agreed to a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee, the panel said Wednesday, a breakthrough for Democrats who have been frustrated by President Trump’s broad stonewalling of their investigations.
Read moreHouse Democrats angling to spotlight damning allegations from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report are focusing Wednesday on contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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