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Former American Media Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Pecker's Thursday testimony could lead to serious consequences for ex-President Donald Trump, according to conservative lawyer George Conway.Conway explained to CNN's Wolf Blitzer why Pecker's testimony was both "damaging" and "damning" […]
A state judge in Arizona has rejected a lawsuit by a right-wing group seeking to remove the procedure for counties to install unstaffed ballot drop boxes, Democratic voting rights attorney Marc Elias reported on Thursday.The lawsuit was brought by the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, along with Mary […]
The US Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments for ex-President Donald Trump's claim that he should have immunity from federal prosecution — and more specifically in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case against him. According to ABC News, "A decision is expected by […]
Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is responding to Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Donald Trump’s claim he has “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution because he was a U.S. president, and she delivered a strong warning in response.Trump’s […]
Several legal experts have praised Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's team's decision to select former American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker as the first witness in Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial. The former National Enquirer publisher on Thursday made an admission that may have […]
Former President Donald Trump made headlines in 2017 after insisting that there were "very fine people on both sides" after the deadly Charlottesville, Virginia "Unite the Right" rally that ended in a violent hate crime. And on Thursday, he brought up Charlottesville once again, this time […]
House Republicans have — once again — been rejected by the US Department of Justice in their attempt to secure audio from President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur in his classified documents probe, according to Axios. Hur concluded that he would not charge the […]
While testifying under oath on Thursday, former American Media Inc. (AMI) CEO David Pecker made an eyebrow-raising statement that appeared to confirm the basis of the prosecution's case against former President Donald Trump.According to Politico's live updates of Trump's ongoing criminal trial in […]
Legal experts appeared somewhat pleased during the first half of the Supreme Court’s historic hearing on Donald Trump’s claim he has “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution because he was the President of the United States, as the justice appeared unwilling to accept […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has documented the lives and acts of numerous American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, both Roosevelts and Richard Nixon, among others. But she said former President Donald Trump's insistence on having […]
Justice Juan Merchan was hoping that opening arguments in Donald Trump's hush money/falsifying business records trial would begin on Monday morning, April 22, and he got his wish. Both sides — Trump's defense team and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s office — made their […]
“To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about the 16 months he spent at that notorious prison in Iraq after […]
A few years ago, I found myself at a campaign event, where discussion quickly turned to the top story of the day: a political figure accused of sexual assault. I can’t repeat what was said by the men and women there, but I can say that I heard a lot of myths about the subject. What was she […]
Fox News has been defending former President Donald Trump aggressively during his hush money/falsifying business records trial, often attacking Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. as a Democratic partisan whose case has no merit.Vanity Fair's Bess Levin examined Fox News' coverage of the […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Georgia) threats to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) were recently panned in conservative publications. Now, even other Republican lawmakers are piling on.Axios recently reported that several unnamed GOP members of Congress who identify as more […]
Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court hearing Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity early on appeared at best skeptical, were able to get his attorney to admit personal criminal acts can be prosecuted, appeared to skewer his argument a president must be impeached and convicted before he can […]
Editor's Note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated Donald Trump misspelled Sen. Lindsey Graham's name. It has since been updated.We have grown so accustomed to hearing Donald Trump accuse Joe Biden and the Democrats of rigging or stealing elections we might not notice when he admits […]
Jeff Gunter, the Californian businessman hoping to unseat Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada), was recently caught using the largesse of his donors to establish his Western bona fides in an arguably cartoonish way.The Daily Beast recently combed through Gunter's campaign finance filings and found that he […]
The county clerk for Ingham County, Michigan blasted Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump after the ex-president’s daughter-in-law bragged the RNC will have people to “physically handle” voters’ ballots in polling locations across the country this […]
Thursday, April 25 marks the day the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Donald Trump's presidential immunity case. The presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee is claiming that because he was still president in late 2020 and early 2021, he enjoys total immunity from special […]
For all the scathing criticism she has received from liberals, progressives, Democrats and Never Trump conservatives, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has become a prominent figure in the U.S. House of Representatives' Republican majority. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) hailed […]
A major legal bombshell came out of Arizona on Wednesday, April 24 when Democratic State Attorney General Kris Mayes announced the criminal indictments of 11 Donald Trump allies who tried to overturn the 2020 election results in her state and were part of the "fake electors" scheme.Some of the […]
Next to gerrymandering, the biggest institutional driver of dangerous and destructive political misrepresentation in Ohio and across America is the U.S. Supreme Court’s disastrous 2010 Citizens United ruling allowing unbridled, dark money, pay-to-play corruption, which has now led to the […]
When you bite into a piece of celery, there’s a fair chance that it will be coated with a thin film of a toxic pesticide called acephate.The bug killer — also used on tomatoes, cranberries, Brussels sprouts and other fruits and vegetables — belongs to a class of compounds linked […]
In 2018, Elon Musk got the richest pay package in U.S. corporate history, then worth some $56 billion. Nearly three months ago, a Delaware court voided that pay package, finding that the process to decide on it was “deeply flawed” because Tesla’s board didn’t properly […]
Less than a month after a key abortion pill hearing, the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments for another major reproductive rights case—one out of Idaho that could impact healthcare for pregnant women and people across the country. Idaho is among the over 20 states […]
The leadership of a union that represents more than 3 million building trades workers in the U.S. and Canada endorsed President Joe Biden's reelection bid on Wednesday, slamming presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump for catering to the needs of billionaires like himself during his first four years […]
A campaign finance watchdog on Wednesday filed a Federal Election Commission complaint accusing former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, affiliated political groups, and an accounting firm of violating U.S. law in a scheme "seemingly designed to obscure the true recipients of a noteworthy […]
Like good fascists throughout modern history, Donald Trump and the RNC are rolling out a program to try to intimidate minorities and Democratic voters so badly they’ll leave polling places without voting. Hugh Jackson writes about it for the Nevada Current:“Donald Trump and the […]
A slew of Donald Trump allies were indicted Wednesday by a grand jury in Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. While former Trump lawyers and Georgia co-defendants Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis were among the 18 people indicted, the former president […]