What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

I don’t know what the baseline is, Sarah. But 126 Republicans in the House had signed a letter in support of an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn the election. So this perhaps isn’t too surprising.

There’s been lots of online chatter about: 1) Will Congress, particularly Democrats in the House, push for Trump’s impeachment and removal from office? and 2) Will the Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from power?

I don’t know the answer to these questions. But listening to Pelosi’s and Schumer’s speeches tonight, it sure sounds like they would rather just wait until Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Pence and McConnell didn’t even directly criticize Trump by name, so it’s hard to see them trying to push Trump out.

What has happened today is that it now feels like many Republicans in Congress don’t feel the need to defend Trump over these next two weeks, however, and that is notable.

All good points, but to return to our earlier discussion about the GOP breaking away from Trump … doesn’t what is happening in the House kind of undermine that possibility in a very real way? I appreciate that I might not be taking into full consideration the differences in how the two chambers approach institutional legacy, but I guess I had anticipated more of a rebuke — red districts or not — given what we just saw in the Senate.