2018 Day 567: Pence detailed Trump's proposal to create a "Space Force"; Russia threatened to cut off a supply of rocket engines for the U.S. space program in response to new sanctions; Devin Nunes was caught on tape explaining that the effort to impeach Rod Rosenstein had stalled because it would delay the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh; and a federal judge threatened to hold Jeff Sessions in contempt after learning that the Trump administration had put two asylum seekers on a plane to El Salvador and deported them while their appeal was underway. Aug 9, 2018
2019 Day 932: The House Judiciary Committee is officially conducting an impeachment inquiry into Trump; the El Paso shooter that killed 22 people told police that his target was "Mexicans"; the Trumps posed for a photo with an orphaned two-month-old, whose parents were shot dead in El Paso; and the State Department suspended a foreign affairs official after his ties to a white nationalist group were revealed. Aug 9, 2019
2021 Day 202: The Pentagon will require all U.S. servicemembers to get vaccinated; a Texas judge blocked the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled the state; Senate Democrats unveiled a $3.5 trillion budget resolution; Trump's former acting attorney general testified that Trump tried to subvert the 2020 election; and a top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned. Aug 9, 2021
2022 Day 567: The FBI executed a federal search warrant at Mar-a-Lago connected to the 15 boxes of presidential documents that Trump improperly took from the White House; newly revealed photos show two occasions that Trump apparently tried to flush documents down the toilet; a federal appeals court ruled that the House can obtain Trump’s tax returns from the IRS; Trump's legal team is in direct communication with Justice Department officials about executive privilege issues related to its criminal probe into the Jan. 6 attack; and Biden signed legislation providing $52 billion in subsidies to the semiconductor industry. Aug 9, 2022
2023 Day 932: Special counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for Trump's Twitter account earlier this year as part of the investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election; Trump threatened that he "will talk" about the criminal charges in his election conspiracy case; an internal Trump campaign memo from late 2020 detailed their plan to subvert the Electoral College process and install fake, pro-Trump electors in multiple states to overturn the election; Ohio voters rejected a Republican-backed ballot measure to raise the threshold to amend the state’s constitution ahead of a November referendum on whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution; and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended a second elected state attorney. Aug 9, 2023