• Mike Pence’s lawyer revealed on January 18, 2023, that Pence had documents with classified markings at his Indiana home. This suggests that it is not uncommon for officials to find such documents among their papers, although the level of classification matters.
• The discovery highlights the difference between officials like Biden and Pence who inadvertently find such documents and alert the National Archives and Research Administration (NARA), and those who stonewall NARA and the FBI, as Trump did.
• Judge Robert McBurney heard arguments about whether to release the grand jury’s report investigating Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential vote in Georgia.
• Representative George Santos revised his financial reports to say that a $500,000 loan to his campaign did not, in fact, come from his personal funds.
• Representative Elise Stefanik is being pulled into Santos’ troubles.
• House Speaker Kevin McCarthy put together a weaponization committee to fulfill a promise to the right-wing extremists whose votes he needed to become speaker. The true goal of the committee is to “shovel paranoia and distortion into the news stream” to make right-wing voters distrust the government even more.
• McCarthy refused to seat Democratic representatives Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
• Another mass shooting on Monday took seven more lives, bringing the total for 2023 to an all-time high for mass shootings at this point in the calendar. California Governor Gavin Newsom called out Republicans for standing in the way of gun safety.
Published January 25, 2023
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