Month: December 2023

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. Three women who worked in former President Donald Trump’s administration bleakly warned voters against returning him to the White House in 2024. They cautioned that he poses a grave threat to American democracy and some even mused about backing the Democrat option should Trump lock down the…
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday called on the Biden administration to implement a policy modeled on the pandemic-era Title 42, which allowed border patrol agents to turn away migrants at the border without hearing asylum claims because of the public health emergency. “Here’s the key I think. We’re asking the administration to use Title…
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The Iowa frenzy is typically in full force by nowDES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa frenzy is typically in full force by now.With less than three weeks until the Iowa caucuses formally usher in the presidential nomination process, White House hopefuls are usually in a heated competition. They fan out across the state and pack…
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Democrat speaks on supreme court stepping in to adjudicate Maine and Colorado rulings that removed Trump from ballotsSupreme court justice Clarence Thomas must recuse himself from ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility for the 2024 presidential election, a prominent Democrat said Sunday, warning that the leading Republican candidate is seeking to become a “political martyr” as…
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By Peter Wade Now that Colorado and Maine have disqualified Donald Trump from their 2024 ballots, citing the 14th Amendment, the case will most likely go to the Supreme Court. But Rep. Jamie Raskin said Sunday that Justice Clarence Thomas “absolutely should recuse himself” from these upcoming rulings because of his wife’s involvement in Jan.…
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“Oh, he absolutely should recuse himself,” the Maryland Democrat said. “The question is: What do we do if he doesn’t recuse himself?”

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to launch three new military spy satellites, build attack drones and expand the country’s nuclear materials in 2024, according to state media reports. In remarks made at the end of the ruling Workers’ Party meeting over the weekend, Kim railed against the “vicious” moves of the U.S. and…
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David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that specializes in philosophical works that challenge religion or spirituality. Donald Trump's former lawyer Tim Parlatore told CNN on Saturday that the…
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ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeWASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Wednesday in Donald Trump’s federal election interference case seeking to block him from making political arguments and referring to conspiracy theories during the trial.“The Court should not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into…
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Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inEx-president claims ‘millions of people … are illegally’ entering US to vote in 2024 Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileDonald Trump doubles down on anti-immigrant rhetoric after…
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Taylor Swift and Beyoncé set the music world on fire in 2023 with massive, globe-spanning tours, and their influence seeped into the world of politics as lawmakers and other political figures named-checked them. Here are a few of the most noteworthy moments in which the worlds of politics and pop culture converged over the last…
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Jack Smith Asks Appeals Court to Reject Trump’s Immunity Claim  The Wall Street Journalsource

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called Maine’s secretary of state a “radical” person in a Sunday interview, days after she declared former President Trump ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot in the 2024 presidential election. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Graham echoed Trump’s criticism of Maine Secretary of State Shenna…
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday appeared to backtrack on earlier criticism of former President Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 and suggested, instead, that his presidential immunity defense was “a legitimate claim” as he moves forward with various court battles. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Graham was pressed on whether he…
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Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. Former top Obama adviser David Axelrod warned Friday that a court decision removing former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot “would rip the country apart.”“I have very, very strong reservations about all of this,” Axelrod said on CNN on Friday. “I do think it would rip the…
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The Florida Republican previously declared that he’d “do what’s right for the country” when asked if he’d pledge to pardon the former president.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) suggested Sunday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from a future ruling on whether former President Trump can be disqualified from the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment. Raskin said he thinks “anybody looking at this in any kind of dispassionate, reasonable way would say if your wife…
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said Maine’s decision to remove former President Trump from the ballot is politically motivated. Sununu said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was motivated to kick Trump off the ballot due to her own career goals. Sununu, a frequent critic of…
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SEARCHI don’t judge the anti-Trump right-leaning voters who have been chased away from the GOP permanently. But that’s still not me.Senior ColumnistOn U2’s Rattle and Hum live album, just before the band plays “Helter Skelter,” Bono says something memorable: “This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We’re stealing it back.”Maybe someday we…
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Although America is far from perfect, our government has among the world’s strongest processes for officials to express internal policy dissent without fear of retribution. Our country also has a long tradition of such officials resigning when they strongly disagree with certain policies. Instead of following either of these legitimate and well-established paths, however, a…
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said Sunday that GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s failure to mention slavery in her answer on the cause of the Civil War was a “mistake.” Sununu, who has endorsed Haley in the GOP primary, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” that while Haley’s initial answer at…
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Special counsel Jack Smith says in filing that suggestion Trump cannot be held accountable for crimes ‘threatens the country’Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal appeals court Saturday to reject former president Donald Trump’s claims that he is immune from prosecution, saying the suggestion that he cannot be held to account for crimes committed in…
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