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President Trump’s Impeachment Legal Team Taking Shape

President Trump's legal team for the impeachment trial has some very familiar names on it, including one of the biggest from the last time we as a country did this.

WH counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump attorney Jay Sekulow will lead Trump's Senate trial legal team, @HallieJackson has learned. Robert Ray, Ken Starr, and Alan Dershowitz are expected to join. Reps. Ratcliffe and Jordan are not *currently on the team, but it's said to be fluid.
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) January 17, 2020

Speaker Pelosi Names Impeachment Managers, Will Hand Articles Over to Senate

Speaker Pelosi Names Impeachment Managers, Will Hand Articles Over to Senate

[caption id="attachment_323658" align="aligncenter" width="750"] United States House of Representatives [Public domain][/caption]Naming managers and transmitting articles, after a few weeks wait the Senate will finally get on with the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump

Today, I have the privilege of naming the Managers of the impeachment trial of the President. #DefendOurDemocracy pic.twitter.com/Y2613Ni3pC
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 15, 2020

The full House will pass the transmittal resolution this afternoon. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated the impeachment proceedings will begin on Tuesday of next week.

Oscar Nominations Announced

Oscar Nominations Announced

The 2020 Oscar Nominations list has been released.

Here are the nominees for Best motion picture of the year:

FORD V FERRARI
Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and James Mangold, Producers
THE IRISHMAN
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers
JOJO RABBIT
Carthew Neal and Taika Waititi, Producers
JOKER
Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Producers
LITTLE WOMEN
Amy Pascal, Producer
MARRIAGE STORY
Noah Baumbach and David Heyman, Producers
1917
Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall, Producers
ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD
David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh and Quentin Tarantino, Producers
PARASITE
Kwak Sin Ae and Bong Joon Ho, Producers

The rest of the categories and nominees are listed on the official site (linked above).

(Featured image is "Blue Carpet Treatment" by SetoTheTech. Used under creative commons license.)

Houston Astros, We Have a Problem…

Houston Astros, We Have a Problem…

Breaking...

BREAKING: Houston Astros GM Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch have been suspended for one year after an MLB investigation found the team used technology to cheat during its World Series-winning 2017 season, sources familiar with the punishment tell ESPN.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) January 13, 2020

And now this...

Bombshell from Astros owner Jim Crane: He is going above and beyond MLB’s penalties and is firing both GM Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch.
— Dan Kolko (@masnKolko) January 13, 2020

[caption id="attachment_317251" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Photo by Gage Skidmore[/caption]

Cory Booker announces that he will be returning to his day job as Senator from New Jersey.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) dropped out of the presidential race Monday, citing a lack of financial resources and exposure from the debates.
In a high-energy video peppered with moments from his speeches and events, he said that he “can’t wait to get back on the campaign trail” to work for other candidates, including the eventual nominee.
Booker did not qualify for the democratic debate in Iowa on Tuesday, and was a vocal critic of the DNC’s metrics.
His campaign, based on positivity and hope with the tagline “we will rise,” failed to take off. He quickly fell behind less experienced candidates like South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg in both polling and financial resources.
His fundraising was so anemic in September that he sent out an emergency plea, an “unvarnished look” at the financial flailing of the campaign.