bennie thompson
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A Year After the Insurrection, Where’s Accountability for Accomplices in Congress?
Big biz withholds cash, while Thompson takes aim at Pence, Hannity
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Trump Asks SCOTUS to Read Bennie Thompson’s Interview
45 is trying everything to avoid accountability for Jan. 6
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Kevin McCarthy Doesn’t Want Inquiry Into the Insurrection at the Capitol Because He’s Busy Looking for Hillary’s Emails
Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has trouble sitting down with Donald Trump’s hand so far up his… Managing Editor Genetta Adams: Stephen. We talked about this. You have to start off slow and then you can go crazy. Me: Got it. Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is against a 9/11-style commission into the…
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NAACP Sues Trump, Giuliani and Two White Nationalist Groups for Failed Jan. 6 Coup
The NAACP, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll figure if Republicans won’t let their ovaries hang and impeach the voice of the insurrection, then they will just have to sue his ass and his supporters’ untanned asses. So a lawsuit was filed Tuesday morning in the Federal…
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FBI Fails to Release Report Detailing White Supremacist Terror Threat. Some Blame the White House
White supremacists are America’s greatest terror threat. The Department of Homeland Security has said as much, and the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division has also admitted it. But this year, the FBI is late in fulfilling its legal obligation to release a report detailing the extent of white supremacist terrorism and other domestic terrorism happening in the…
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Why Won't Congress Take Domestic Terrorism Seriously?
Just hours before a deranged white man stormed two New Zealand mosques and killed some 49 people, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) sent his third letter to the FBI and the Justice Department asking for a committee briefing on the “evolving threat of domestic terrorism.” His first two requests had been ignored. According to HuffPost, the…
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Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba Declines to Share Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Stage With White Supremacist in Chief
Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Jackson, Miss.’s revolutionary mayor, will not be sharing the stage with President Donald Trump at the grand opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum this Saturday, the Clarion Ledger reports. “I believe that Trump’s presence is a distraction. His policies don’t reflect his statements that this is a movement that will bring…
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FBI Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Arson, Vandalism at Black Miss. Church
The FBI has launched a civil rights investigation into the arson and vandalism of a black church in Greenville, Miss., where someone spray-painted “Vote Trump” on the side of the damaged building, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, approximately 80 percent of the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was destroyed in the blaze. Greenville Mayor…