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Jim Jordan
early and often
Nov. 21, 2023
House Republicans Forge Ahead on Doomed Biden Impeachment Effort They won’t have the evidence or the votes, but at least they can get it out of the way early in 2024.
early and often
Oct. 20, 2023
Republicans Started a Civil War They Don’t Know How to End Knocking off Speaker candidates is easy, but electing one is impossible so far.
early and often
Oct. 20, 2023
One Theory on Why Jim Jordan Kept Going for Broke If the 2024 election is good for Republicans, it would be bad for Jordan and his far-right supporters.
early and often
Oct. 18, 2023
early and often
Oct. 13, 2023
Who Is Austin Scott? Maybe the Next Speaker of the House! Well, probably not. But the obscure Georgia representative’s challenge to Jim Jordan shows we’re already running low on viable candidates for Speaker.
early and often
Oct. 13, 2023
What’s Worse: MAGA Speaker Jim Jordan or No Speaker at All? Jordan is an extremist who will probably shut down the government. But making him Speaker may be the only way to end the House GOP’s slow-motion riot.
early and often
Oct. 13, 2023
The House Republicans Are in a Hell of Their Own Making All they need to do is elect a Speaker. The one thing they definitely can’t do is agree on a Speaker.
early and often
Oct. 10, 2023
Israel War Complicates the Already Impossible Speaker’s Race Urgent calls for aid to Israel may make solving the House’s impasse over the Speakership and various funding priorities even more difficult.
early and often
Oct. 9, 2023
The Race for Speaker Is About to Get Real Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan face off in the Capitol Thunderdome. Here’s how they match up and who else might win the gavel if chaos ensues again.
early and often
Oct. 6, 2023
With Trump Endorsement, Jim Jordan Has a Chance to Win the Speaker’s Gavel Jordan has two assets in his battle with Steve Scalise: the 45th president and street cred with the hard-liners who took down Kevin McCarthy.
early and often
Apr. 17, 2023
Republicans and Democrats Went at It Over Crime in Manhattan The House Judiciary Committee, led by Jim Jordan, held a hearing on Alvin Bragg’s home turf in part to attack the prosecutor of Trump.
early and often
Apr. 12, 2023
Alvin Bragg Sues House Republicans to Block Their Counterattack The Manhattan DA called the Judiciary Committee investigation into his office’s Trump probe “an unprecedentedly brazen and unconstitutional attack.”
Freedom Caucus Troublemakers Are Poised for a Comeback If Republicans retake the House in 2022, the caucus could return to its insubordinate ways — fueled this time by loyalty to Trump, not conservatism.
Pelosi and McCarthy Joust Over GOP Participation in January 6 Panel McCarthy picked two MAGA hard-liners for the committee. Pelosi vetoed them, so all the GOP nominees quit. And now we have another stalemate.
Republicans Who Voted to Block Biden’s Election to Investigate Capitol Riot Three lawmakers who objected to certifying the election after the insurrection may now investigate the insurrection.
2022 midterms
Jan. 25, 2021
Republican Senator Rob Portman to Retire in 2022 The fight for control of the Senate in 2022 is already underway. The key factor could be the kind of Republican divisions evident in Portman’s Ohio.
impeachment
Jan. 13, 2021
Trump Becomes First President to Be Impeached Twice Ten Republicans joined every House Democrat in voting to impeach. Trump’s Senate trial may start just as Biden takes office.
republicans
July 21, 2020
House Freedom Caucus Members Go After Liz Cheney for Defending Fauci It’s a sign of the times that hard-core conservative Cheney is under attack for insufficient loyalty to Trump.
Ted Cruz Challenges 70-Year-Old Actor to Wrestling Match (Against Someone Else) On the list of Ted Cruz’s embarrassing public moments, this one ranks near the top.
House Republicans Want to Add Some Crazy to Trump Trial Defense McConnell is struggling to keep Trump’s acquittal minimally dignified, but his president and allies in the House have other ideas.
impeachment
Nov. 30, 2019
How Nadler’s Impeachment Hearings Will Differ From Schiff’s Each day of the upcoming House Judiciary hearings will be long and perhaps even more contentious than what we’ve already seen.
michael cohen testimony
Feb. 27, 2019
GOP Strategy: Call Cohen a Liar, Don’t Rebut His Specific Claims About Trump House Oversight Committee Republicans just want to attack Cohen’s credibility, and act like everything he says is part of a “Democrat” witch hunt.
republicans
Nov. 14, 2018
Kevin McCarthy Easily Wins Bid to Lead Diminished House Republicans The congressman from California finally won the job he nearly got in 2015 — though thanks to the midterms, it did not come with the Speaker’s gavel.
house republicans
Aug. 20, 2018
Will Losing the House Bring Down Kevin McCarthy’s Bid for Leadership? Ryan’s designated successor has no choice but to get out there on the campaign trail. But anything other than a GOP win could be dangerous for him.
Ex-Ohio State Wrestlers Say Coach Asked Them to Take Back Jim Jordan Accusations They said it was clear the former coach, Russ Hellickson, was being pressured by Jordan and his allies.
Amid Sex-Abuse Scandal, Jim Jordan Announces Run for Speaker The Ohio congressman is accused of knowing about sexual abuse while he was a coach at Ohio State and doing nothing to stop it.
House Conservatives Introduce Articles of Impeachment Against Rod Rosenstein It looks like more of a gesture of intimidation and disinformation by Trump’s closest congressional allies than a serious threat to the deputy AG.
Eighth Former OSU Wrestler Says Jim Jordan Knew About Sexual Abuse The former wrestler says that when he told Jordan about the team doctor’s inappropriate touching, “he just snickered.”
Trump Believes ‘100 Percent’ in Jim Jordan’s Innocence in Sex Abuse Case When it comes to fidelity to factual evidence, particularly in sex abuse cases, Donald Trump’s endorsement is at best a mixed blessing.
Powerful House Republican Implicated in College Sex-Abuse Scandal The accusations that Jim Jordan turned a blind eye to sexual abuse as a college wrestling coach bring disturbing echoes of the Larry Nassar scandal.
Arizona Republican Who Squeaked to Victory Joins Right-Wing Caucus You’d think Debbie Lesko would be frantically signaling moderation after a near-death experience in a special election.
the national interest
Apr. 17, 2018
the national interest
Nov. 7, 2016
Republican Party Now So Diverse It Includes White Guys Wearing Camo Trump’s party looks like America, if you only hang out in gun shops.
Even Trump Supporters Think Comey’s Letter Was Inappropriate The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, right-wing radio host Joe Walsh, and Karl Rove criticized Comey for unfairly intervening in the election.
important ceilings
July 26, 2011
