Word is that Gym will get another roll call vote this morning. Also, Patrick McHenry is threatening to quit as temp speaker. I’ll be back later to comment.
Update: Jordan is striking out already.
Update: Chesebro got a plea deal, or a partial plea deal. I’ll post details when I know them.
Update: Sorry I haven’t been keeping up. I had some messy personal business to take care of. Now I’m trying to figure out what’s been going on.
Now the Republicans have voted, 112 to 86, to remove Gym Jordan as the nomnee for speaker. Other would-be speakers have until Sunday to step forward. Several possibilies are being named. Gym would have been better off if he’d stopped after two votes and got the caucus behind the plan to give Patrick McHenry enhanced temporary powers. He could at least have kept the status of speaker nominee for a while.
Judge Arthur Engoron has threatened Trump with incarceration if he continues to post smack about court employees and witnesses on socical media.
Chesebro pleaded guilty to a single felony count of conspiracy to file false documents and accepted a sentence of three to five years of probation, a $1,000 fine, $5,000 in restitution to the state of Georgia, an apology letter, 100 hours of community service and a promise to testify truthfully against any other co-defendants in the case, should they go to trial.
I understand Chesebro played a major role in the fake elector scam.
Israel has not yet begun sending troops into Gaza. I understand the U.S. and several other nations are urging Israel to hold off and try to get hostages out. Israel continues to bomb Gaza, I understand.
I think that’s the highlights. Thank you to everyone for all your comments during the day.
Update: One more — Judge Chutkan temporarily froze the gag order she’d placed on Trump.
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday temporarily froze the gag order she issued on Donald Trump in the former president’s federal 2020 election subversion criminal case.
In a brief order, Chutkan, who is overseeing the case against Trump in Washington, DC, said she was issuing the administrative stay of the gag order entered earlier this week to give the parties more time to brief her on the former president’s request to pause the order while his appeal of it plays out.
Chutkan also said that the Justice Department has until Wednesday to respond to Trump’s request for a longer pause on the gag order and that Trump would have until the following Saturday to reply to the government’s filing.