2020 Day 1391: Attorney General William Barr authorized federal prosecutors to investigate “substantial allegations” of voter fraud – if they exist – before the results of the election are certified, despite no evidence of widespread fraud; the Justice Department's top election crimes prosecutor resigned in protest after Barr authorized U.S. attorneys to probe alleged elections fraud; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ignored Biden’s victory and claimed there will be a “smooth transition” to a second Trump term; the Biden-Harris transition team is considering legal action if the Trump administration doesn’t formalize Biden’s win and give him access to agencies and transition funding; and lawyers can't find the parents for 666 migrant kids separated by the Trump administration. Nov 10, 2020
2021 Day 295: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot issued new subpoenas to 10 former Trump White House officials; a federal judge rejected Trump's attempt to keep more than 700 pages of records from his White House secret; at least 13 of Trump’s senior aides campaigned illegally for his re-election in violation of the Hatch Act; people are dying from Covid-19 at a rate three times higher in counties where Trump won at least 60% of the vote than in counties where Biden won a similar percentage; and the Labor Department reported the largest annual increase in consumer prices in three decades. Nov 10, 2021
2022 Day 660: Control of Congress continues to hang in the balance two days after the 2022 midterm elections; the consumer price index increased 7.7% from a year ago; home prices rose in 98% of metro markets from July through September despite mortgage rates rising to their highest level in 20 years; and the IRS urged the Supreme Court to allow the release of Trump’s tax returns to a House committee. Nov 10, 2022
2025 Day 1756: The Senate voted to advance a bipartisan bill to end the nation’s longest government shutdown after eight Democrats broke ranks to join Republicans; the Trump administration told the Supreme Court that it plans to keep fighting to block a court order requiring full November SNAP payments for 42 million Americans; Trump demanded that air traffic controllers “get back to work, NOW!!!” and warned that anyone who didn’t would be “substantially ‘docked’”; Trump urged Senate Republicans to divert Affordable Care Act subsidies from insurers to individuals, saying the money should “BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE”; Trump promised “a dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!)” from tariff revenue; Trump pardoned Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and 77 others accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election; Trump was booed while leading a military enlistment oath at Sunday’s Washington Commanders game, hours after reports that he wants the team’s planned D.C. stadium named for him; the Supreme Court rejected an effort to overturn its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide; and the Supreme Court will decide whether states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. Nov 10, 2025