On This Day: September 8

4 posts spanning 2017–2025

2017

• Day 232 Sep 8, 2017

2021

• Day 232: Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department is exploring “all options” to challenge Texas’s restrictive abortion law; the U.S. surpassed more than 40 million total cases of the coronavirus; an estimated 7.5 million people lost all of their jobless benefits after three federal pandemic unemployment programs expired; more than 32% of Americans live in a county that experienced a weather disaster in the last three months; Chuck Schumer rejected Joe Manchin’s call for a “strategic pause” on Biden’s $3.5 trillion tax and spending package; and an internal Capitol Police memo warned of potential violence at an upcoming pro-Trump rally to support the insurrectionists charged in the Jan. 6 riots. Sep 8, 2021

2022

• Day 597: The Justice Department appealed a federal judge’s decision to grant a special master to review documents seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home; a federal grand jury issued subpoenas seeking information about Trump’s Save America PAC; Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated that he is “strongly committed” to fighting inflation "until the job is done"; the White House warned that the environmental impact of producing cryptocurrencies could threaten the nation’s climate goals; nearly 650,000 parcels of land in the U.S. are projected to be at least partially under water by 2050; and the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean are warming nearly twice as fast as the global average. Sep 8, 2022

2025

• Day 1693: House Democrats released Trump’s lewd 2003 letter to Jeffrey Epstein that he insisted was “nonexistent,” “false, malicious, and defamatory”; Trump’s Justice Department asked a judge to keep the names of two people Jeffrey Epstein paid $100,000 and $250,000 in 2018 secret, even though both were protected from prosecution in his 2008 deal; House Speaker Mike Johnson said Trump was “an FBI informant” in the Jeffrey Epstein case, but later walked back the claim, admitting he might not have used the “right terminology”; a federal appeals court upheld the $83.3 million judgment that Trump repeatedly defamed E. Jean Carroll by calling her a liar who would “pay dearly” after he was found liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s; the Supreme Court let the Trump administration resume “roving” immigration patrols in the Los Angeles area; the Department of Homeland Security launched “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago to target undocumented immigrants with criminal records, vowing to “hunt you down, arrest you, deport you, and you will never return”; JD Vance defended the U.S. strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat and dismissed a war-crime accusation, saying “I don’t give a shit what you call it [...] Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military"; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened to “punch” Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte “in your fucking face” during a private dinner of Trump allies; Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud for claiming multiple primary residences, even as his own father and stepmother claimed the same exemptions in Michigan and Florida; and U.S. employers added 22,000 jobs in August, the unemployment rate rose to 4.3% – the highest in nearly four years – and revisions showed the economy actually lost 13,000 jobs in June. Sep 8, 2025