06 January 2025 - Congress set to certify Trump's election
Congress is ready to certify Trump’s election win, but his Jan. 6 legacy hangs over the day
Lisa Mascaro (AP News, 06/01/2025)
As Congress convenes amid a winter storm to certify President-elect Donald Trump‘s election, the legacy of Jan. 6 hangs over the proceedings with an extraordinary fact: the candidate who tried to overturn the previous election won this time, and is legitimately returning to power.
A user’s manual to certifying the presidential election
Chad Pergram (Fox News, 04/01/2025)
The House and Senate will meet on Monday in a Joint Session of Congress to certify the results of the 2024 presidential vote.
Harris to oversee electoral count, restoring norm that Trump shattered
Maeve Reston (The Washington Post, 04/01/2025)
Vice President Kamala Harris has called President-elect Donald Trump a threat to American democracy. She has said he is a fascist. She has predicted he would abuse the powers of the presidency. She has warned that he should “never again stand behind the seal of the president of the United States.”
Four years after his supporters invaded the US Capitol, Trump is more powerful than ever
Stephen Collinson (CNN, 06/01/2025)
Late on a day of chaos and blood on January 6, 2021, it was unimaginable that Donald Trump — who summoned a mob to Washington and told the crowd to “fight like hell” — would get anywhere near the presidency again.