2018 Day 658: Mueller's team has begun writing its final report; Trump hasn't decided whether he'll answer any of Mueller's questions; Trump suspended the White House press credentials of CNN's Jim Acosta after a heated exchange at a press conference yesterday; Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted a doctored video to support her accusation that Acosta was aggressive toward a White House aide; and a federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration can't end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Nov 8, 2018
2019 Day 1023: The top Ukraine expert at the National Security Council testified that "there was no doubt" that Trump was seeking investigations into political rivals; Mick Mulvaney refused to comply with a subpoena; a State Department official testified that Trump wanted the Ukraine president "to go to microphone and say investigations, Biden, and Clinton"; a former National Security Council official testified that there was a "good chance" Russia had compromising materials on Trump during the 2016 election; and Trump is "not concerned" about the impeachment inquiry. Nov 8, 2019
2021 Day 293: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas to six former Trump advisers “tied to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election”; the House passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill; a federal court blocked the Biden administration's mandate that millions of workers get vaccinated against Covid-19 or be tested weekly; Ted Cruz accused Sesame Street's Big Bird of "government propaganda" after the Muppet tweeted he had been vaccinated against Covid-19; Trump said he will "probably" wait until after the 2022 midterm elections to announce whether he will run for president in 2024; and 38% of voters approve the job Biden is doing as president – a new low. Nov 8, 2021
2022 Day 658: Polls opened across the country today with control of Congress at stake in the first national election since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol; voting rights advocates monitoring polling sites across the country reported no major concerns with ballots, long lines, or voter intimidation so far; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis refused to allow Justice Department election monitors to go inside polling locations; and the effects of climate change are already “far-reaching and worsening” throughout every region of the U.S. Nov 8, 2022
2023 Day 1023: Nearly 17 months after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade – and for the second general election in a row – voters in increasingly Republican-leaning states defended abortion rights; the House censured the only Palestinian American in Congress for her comments about the Israel-Hamas war; the U.S. called for limits on Israel’s control over the Gaza Strip after its war with Hamas, saying “Gaza cannot continue to be run by Hamas” but that “it’s also clear that Israel cannot occupy Gaza”; and the Minnesota Supreme Court rejected an attempt to block Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot next year under the 14th Amendment. Nov 8, 2023