On This Day: January 2

4 posts spanning 2018–2025

2018

• Day 348 Jan 2, 2018

2019

• Day 713: Trump invited congressional leaders to the White House for a briefing on border security; House Democrats plan to vote on a bipartisan package of six Senate spending bills to reopen the government; Paul Manafort was pressured by a former Russian intelligence office to pay back around $19 million he owed while running Trump's 2016 presidential campaign; and Trump wished "the haters" and "the fake news media" a happy new year, urging them to "calm down and enjoy the ride." Jan 2, 2019

2024

• Day 1078: Maine’s secretary of state removed Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot based on the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban”; a federal judge approved Georgia’s new, Republican-drawn congressional map that preserves Republican power; Nikki Haley declined to say that slavery was a cause of the Civil War; and a senior Hamas leader was killed by Israel in an explosion in Beirut. Jan 2, 2024

2025

• Day 1444: Trump blamed "criminal" immigrants for the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that was carried out by a U.S. Army veteran from Texas; Mike Johnson doesn’t have the votes to remain speaker of the House with less than 24 hours until the start of the 119th Congress; Biden will award Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson the Presidential Citizens Medal; a federal appeals court struck down the FCC’s net neutrality rules; and Chief Justice John Roberts warned that "violence, intimidation and defiance directed at judges because of their work undermine our Republic, and are wholly unacceptable." Jan 2, 2025