Below are the top political news stories of the day: ¯\_(?)_/¯
- Nadler gets under GOP's skin - The Hill | After embracing fiery rhetoric during his first appearance in the Senate impeachment trial.
- Democrats appeal for GOP help to convict ‘corrupt’ Trump - AP | Trump’s lawyers sat by, waiting their turn, as the president blasted the proceedings from afar...
- 'These words will live in infamy'- USA Today | Democrats make case against Trump in impeachment trial – Updates
- Impeachment: Democrats reject witness swap in Trump trial - BBC | Mr Trump's Republican allies have argued Hunter Biden should also be ordered to appear.
- AP-NORC poll: Public doubts Senate trial will be revealing - AP | Slightly more Americans say the Senate should remove President Donald Trump from office, and most say their minds will not be changed by the impeachment trial.
- Trump disrupts Republican trial strategy - Politico | But GOP senators rebuffed the president's suggestion to bring in new witnesses.
- Corrupt scheme and cover-up': Schiff lays out the case for impeachment - Politico | “Over the coming days, you will hear remarkably consistent evidence of President Trump’s corrupt scheme and cover-up,” Schiff said.
- DC claims inaugural committee spending enriched Trump family - AP | Lawsuit - as part of a scheme to “grossly overpay” for party space and enrich the president’s own family in the process.
- Buttigieg’s unlikely Iowa rise now carries high expectations - AP | Can he now meet lofty expectations, or is he relegated to the category of candidates with exceptional promise only to come up short?
- Schiff takes conciliatory tone after Roberts’ admonishment - AP | Chief Justice John Roberts had admonished legislators and defense team language that was “not conducive to civil discourse.”
- Judge hints he may rule for migrants in Border Patrol suit - ABC News | in a lawsuit that alleges extreme overcrowding and inhumane conditions at some of the Border Patrol's facilities...
- AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false account of Ukraine episode - AP | President Donald Trump gave a false account Wednesday of some of the circumstances that got him impeached.
- Supreme Court justices clash over major school-choice case - FOX News | Department of Revenue could make it easier for Americans to use public money to pay for religious education in states across the nation.
- US to impose visas restrictions for pregnant women - AP | Aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” in which women travel to the U.S. to give birth
- Trump suggests he may be open to entitlement cuts in future - AP | A move that would mark a tectonic shift from his stance during his 2016 run for the White House.
- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard files defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton - ABC News | Clinton's spokesman called the lawsuit "ridiculous."
