Reps. Charlie Crist (D-Florida; once an R), Emanuel Cleaver (D-Missouri) and Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) have introduced the bill...

It can always be worse, you could like be a female born and stuck in rural Kenya.

By Boniface Thuku @ Citizentv.co.ke, Jan. 14

A pastor in Ndia Constituency, Kirinyaga County who pleaded guilty to defiling and impregnating his two teenage daughters aged 14 and 16 years has been sentenced to 140 years in jail.

Appearing before Baricho Senior Principal Magistrste Anthony Mwicigi, the offender was slapped with a 70-year jail term for sexually assaulting each of the girls. The court ruled that the sentence will run consecutively, this leaving the man with 140 years behind bars. The accused aged 51 admitted the offence on January 5  and was remanded until Thursday, January 7. He blamed the devil for his offences and asked for forgiveness from his children and the court [....]

Pro-life, no?

Maybe ban masks while at it

Senator Mitch McConnell is said to believe that the impeachment effort will make it easier to purge President Trump from the party. And Representative Kevin McCarthy has asked other Republicans whether he should call on Mr. Trump to resign in the aftermath of the Capitol siege.

By Jonathan Martin & Maggie Haberman @ NYTimes.com/live coverage, 7 min.ago

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, has told associates that he believes President Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he is pleased that Democrats are moving to impeach him, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party, according to people familiar with his thinking. The House is voting on Wednesday to formally charge Mr. Trump with inciting violence against the country.

At the same time, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader and one of Mr. Trump’s most steadfast allies in Congress, has asked other Republicans whether he should call on Mr. Trump to resign in the aftermath of the riot at the Capitol last week, according to three Republican officials briefed on the conversations.

While Mr. McCarthy has said he is personally opposed to impeachment, he and other party leaders have decided not to formally lobby Republicans to vote “no,” and an aide to Mr. McCarthy said he was open to a measure censuring Mr. Trump for his conduct. In private, Mr. McCarthy reached out to a leading House Democrat to see if the chamber would be willing to pursue a censure vote, though Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ruled it out.

Taken together, the stances of Congress’s two top Republicans — neither of whom has said publicly that Mr. Trump should resign or be impeached — reflected the politically challenging and fast-moving nature of the crisis that the party faces after the assault by a pro-Trump mob during a session to formalize President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s electoral victory. [....]

By Josh Dawsey & Ashley Parker @ WashingtonPost.com, Jan. 11; the real leaks start about halfway through:

[....]The rupture began Dec. 15, when Trump decided erroneously that Pence was his last resort to block his election loss. The president began telling others to pressure his vice president to object to the final counting of electoral college results by Congress, and the topic came up regularly in conversation between the president and the vice president, officials said.

Those putting pressure included lawyers Rudolph W. Giuliani and John Eastman, trade adviser Peter Navarro and conspiracy-minded Trump ally Sidney Powell, officials said, along with other lawyers and outside advisers sent by Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Trump told “almost anyone who called to tell him he could still win to call Pence,” one senior administration official said. Pence at times was in the Oval Office when Trump called people to try to convince the vice president, an official said.

Pence was subjected to repeated phone calls from Trump, including one as late as last Wednesday morning — and to implicit threats from the president that he would attack him if he didn’t object to Biden’s victory, officials said.“Do the courageous thing, Mike,” Trump said in one meeting, according to a person present.“It will be bad for you and for the country if you don’t,” Trump said at another time, according to an official describing the meeting.

Some of the arguments were spurious, officials said. One included the certification of the electoral college votes in 1801, when Vice President Thomas Jefferson ruled electors from Georgia as defective. Another was that Pence could disregard some states because they sent in multiple electoral ballots. When the vice president’s team met with the congressional parliamentarian, they learned that people send fake electoral college votes every year, including one sender who signs them “General Magnifico,” a senior administration official said. The 1800 election isn’t applicable to the current election, officials said [....]