2019 Day 764: Mueller's sentencing memorandum is due to today in the prosecution of Paul Manafort; Mueller is not expected deliver a final report to the attorney general next week after all; and New York state prosecutors, meanwhile, are prepared to charge Manafort if Trump issues a presidential pardon for his federal crimes. Feb 22, 2019
2021 Day 34: The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 500,000; Biden altered the Paycheck Protection Program to direct more funding toward very small businesses and those owned by minorities or located in underserved communities; the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s last-ditch effort to keep his private financial records from the Manhattan district attorney; the confirmation of Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget is in doubt after two Republicans and a Democrat said they will vote against her nomination; and 17% of Trump voters believe Biden was legitimately elected president. Feb 22, 2021
2022 Day 399: Biden announced “the first tranche” of new sanctions against Russia after Putin ordered troops into two Moscow-backed breakaway regions in Ukraine; Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a planned meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov; the three white men convicted on state charges in Georgia for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery were also found guilty of federal hate crimes; a federal judge rejected Trump’s claim of “absolute immunity” from lawsuits accusing him of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol; and the National Archives confirmed that it found classified information in the 15 boxes of White House records that Trump took to Mar-a-Lago. Feb 22, 2022
2023 Day 764: Trump – who repealed an Obama-era rule that required “high-hazard” cargo trains to be equipped with an advanced braking technology – visited the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio; the Biden administration issued a new immigration rule that would bar migrants from applying for asylum in the U.S. if they crossed the border illegally or failed to first apply for safe harbor in another country; Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing the investigation into Trump’s efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol; Kevin McCarthy provided Fox News host Tucker Carlson with exclusive access to the Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 insurrection; and 50% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said their party has a better chance of winning the White House in 2024 with Biden as their nominee. Feb 22, 2023
2024 Day 1129: A third Alabama fertility clinic stopped its vitro fertilization program following the state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children; Biden suggested that the current Republicans in Congress are “worse” than the “real racists” he served with as a senator in the 1970s; a federal appeals court revoked a moratorium on new coal mine leasing on public lands; and New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron denied Trump’s request to delay paying $453.5 million in fines stemming from his decade-long scheme to inflate the value of assets to obtain more favorable loan and insurance terms Feb 22, 2024