2018 Day 615: A third accuser said she witnessed efforts by Brett Kavanaugh and his friend to get girls "inebriated and disorientated" so they could be "gang raped" in side rooms; Kavanaugh dismissed Swetnick's allegations as "ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone"; Kavanaugh's second accuser is willing to testify publicly before the Senate Judiciary Committee; a Democratic senator is seeking an injunction to stop a full Senate vote on Kavanaugh's nomination; and Trump attacked Michael Avenatti as a "third rate lawyer" who is "making false accusations" because he's "looking for attention." Sep 26, 2018
2019 Day 980: The whistleblower complaint accused Trump of "abus[ing] his office for personal gain" by "[soliciting] interference" from Ukraine in the 2020 election and that the White House took steps to cover it up; the acting Director of National Intelligence defended his decision not to immediately share the whistleblower complaint with Congress; Trump accused the whistleblower of being "close to a spy" and threatened that "in the old days" spies were dealt with "a little differently than we do now"; and the whistleblower is a C.I.A. officer who was detailed in the White House at one point. Sep 26, 2019
2022 Day 615: An Arizona judge ruled that a 1864 ban on nearly all abortions in that state can be enforced; Trump’s attorneys are attempting to assert attorney-client and executive privilege over grand jury testimony to prevent witnesses from sharing information in the Justice Department's Jan. 6 criminal investigation; Mark Meadows texted with an election denier in late December 2020 about attempts to gain access to voting systems in Arizona and Georgia; the Biden administration announced $1.5 billion in grants to fight the opioid crisis; Biden's plan to cancel student loan debt for millions of American borrowers will cost roughly $400 billion over the next decade; the U.S. warned Russia of "catastrophic" consequences if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine; and 66% of voters say the November election is more important than past midterm campaigns. Sep 26, 2022
2023 Day 980: The Senate announced a bipartisan deal to keep the government open through mid-November and provide $6 billion in assistance to Ukraine; the Supreme Court – for the second time in three months – rejected Alabama’s request to use a congressional map that includes only one majority-Black district; Biden urged striking auto workers to “stick with it” during a picket line visit at a General Motors facility in Detroit; the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sued Amazon; a judge ruled that Trump, Trump Jr., Eric Trump and the Trump Organization fraudulently inflated the value of assets to obtain favorable loans and lower insurance premiums; and Trump claimed he's being "unconstitutionally silence[d]" by special counsel Jack Smith. Sep 26, 2023
2024 Day 1346: Federal prosecutors charged New York City Mayor Eric Adams with bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations; Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden introduced legislation to add six justices to the Supreme Court, require supermajorities to overturn any law passed by Congress, require justices to undergo audits, and more; Rudy Giuliani was disbarred from practicing law in Washington, D.C., over his efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue his bombardment of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon indefinitely despite the U.S. and other allies calling for a 21-day ceasefire; Republican Rep. Clay Higgins deleted his racist social media post; and free covid tests by mail are back. Sep 26, 2024