2018 Day 595: Brett Kavanaugh challenged whether Roe v. Wade was "the settled law of the land"; Kavanaugh refused to answer a yes or no question about whether he had discussed Robert Mueller's investigation with one of Trump's attorneys; and the White House is in a state of "total meltdown" with Trump "absolutely livid" and reacting to the anonymous op-ed with "volcanic" anger. Sep 6, 2018
2019 Day 960: The Trump administration is considering a drastic reduction in refugee admissions for next year; four states are planning to cancel their Republican presidential primaries and caucuses; Trump called a Fox News correspondent to the Oval Office to insist that he wasn't wrong when he claimed Hurricane Dorian could have hit Alabama; and the Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation into four automakers who rejected the Trump administration's relaxed air pollution and mileage regulations. Sep 6, 2019
2022 Day 595: The FBI found 48 empty folders that contained classified information at Mar-a-Lago; a federal judge granted Trump's request for a special master to review the documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago; Trump's attorney general said there is no "legitimate reason" for classified documents to have been at Mar-a-Lago; surveillance video shows a Republican county official in Georgia escorting consultants working with Trump lawyer Sidney Powell into the county's election offices on the same day the voting system was breached; 195 Republicans nominees running for office fully deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election, and an additional 61 candidates have raised questions around the results; and 64% of Americans said they think the potential for political violence will increase in the coming years. Sep 6, 2022
2023 Day 960: Biden canceled all seven Trump-issued oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and prohibited oil drilling in 13 million acres in the federally owned National Petroleum Reserve; a federal judge ruled that Trump was liable a second time for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll; the judge presiding over the Georgia election interference case against Trump and his 18 co-defendants said he's "very skeptical" of the plan to put all 19 defendants on trial next month; a New York judge rejected Trump’s request to delay his Oct. 2 civil fraud trial; and six voters in Colorado filed a lawsuit seeking to block Trump from the state's ballots in 2024 for his role in the insurrection on Jan. 6. Sep 6, 2023