Month: December 2023

Breaking NewsTo the editor: In her piece “Punishing their own but passing few laws, a Congress in chaos leaves much to do in 2024,” Lisa Mascaro of the Associated Press described language used by former President Trump to denigrate immigrants as “alarming language evocative of World War II.” This description is dangerously inadequate. “Evocative of…
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The holidays are here, and while the decorations on Capitol Hill symbolize a season of giving, lawmakers seem more focused on getting what they want on immigration. Every member on Capitol Hill agrees the public health crisis at the southern border is untenable. Those truly committed to addressing the emergency know that it can’t be…
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks during a commit to caucus rally, Dec. 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa. Police said Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023, they are investigating incidents directed at Colorado Supreme Court justices and providing extra patrols around their homes in Denver following the court’s decision…
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Breaking NewsMichigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Trump on the state’s primary election ballot. The court said Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep Trump from appearing on the ballot. The state’s high court said in an order that the application by parties to…
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Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Effort to Keep Trump Off Primary Ballot  The Wall Street Journalsource

Senior Editor, Breaking News, HuffPostFormer President Donald Trump will remain on the Michigan GOP primary ballot after the state’s Supreme Court rejected an attempt to remove him.The court declined to take up an appeal to remove Trump based on the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban,” a court document indicated Wednesday.A lower court previously ruled that Michigan law…
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Former President Trump hit back at Rep. Debbie Dingell’s criticism of his “rot in Hell” Christmas message, calling the Michigan Democrat a “loser” in the latest in a string of insults aimed at the lawmaker and her family. “Debbie Dingell of Michigan is a LOSER, who is helping Crooked Joe Biden, and his Merry Band…
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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 in‘Nobody knows where she is. It’s like a mystery. It’s certainly talked about,’ author says Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileDonald Trump doubles down on anti-immigrant rhetoric…
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Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) bashed former President Trump online and said Christians who support him “don’t understand” their religion. “I’m going to go out on a NOT limb here: this man is not a Christian,” Kinzinger said on X, formerly known as Twitter, responding to Trump’s Christmas post. “If you are a Christian who…
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“A bank robber cannot defend himself by blaming the bank’s security guard for failing to stop him,” the Justice Department special counsel wrote.

Featured ShowsMSNBC TVMoreFollow msnbcMore BrandsMore ShowsBy Clarissa-Jan LimDonald Trump is not one for the holiday spirit, it seems. He spent part of his Christmas Day airing a litany of grievances on his social media platform Truth Social, singling out targets from President Joe Biden to federal law enforcement agencies to electric cars.“2024 WILL GO DOWN…
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Haley returns to New Hampshire seeking to close gap with Trump less than a month before primary  CNNsource

Former President Trump celebrated the Michigan Supreme Court rejecting an attempt to remove him from the state’s primary ballot, while taking the opportunity to swipe at Colorado’s high court for booting him off that state’s ballot. “The Michigan Supreme Court has strongly and rightfully denied the Desperate Democrat attempt to take the leading Candidate in…
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The Supreme Court recently handed a temporary procedural victory to former President Donald Trump, in his effort to establish “absolute immunity” from prosecution for conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.  Although Special Prosecutor Jack Smith may have suffered only a minor setback when the court rejected his petition to review the immunity issue on an expedited basis, the unanimous ruling revealed a…
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Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Tuesday criticized a recent Truth Social post by former President Trump.“It’s horrible to put that out on Christmas, it really is,” Mulvaney said Tuesday on “The Hill on NewsNation.” “But face it, if you don’t like that kind of stuff, you’ve already made up your mind…
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Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg on Tuesday pushed back against the sentiment that the Democratic Party will be outmaneuvered in the 2024 election, arguing that the strength of President Biden’s record is underestimated while former President Trump’s “baggage” will cost the GOP the election. In an op-ed for MSNBC, published Tuesday, Rosenberg said he is “optimistic…
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SEARCH Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.It’s the last week of 2023 and 2024 already feels like too much to handle—what with Donald Trump’s promise to be a dictator for “one day” if reelected and his insistence that immigrants are “poisoning” American blood. In The…
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It’s hard to imagine anyone putting 2023 into the highlight reel of America’s best years. A former president caught 91 felony charges, including multiple counts related to alleged election interference. Our children and our families were terrorized by 40 mass shootings this year — a grim new record. More than 40,000 people died as a…
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One of the 16 Republicans accused of a “false elector” scheme in Michigan after the 2020 election indicated he was remorseful for his involvement, according to a New York Times report. James Renner, 77, is the only one out of the 16 defendants to have his charges dropped after he and the office of Michigan…
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Trump Michigan tape: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel asked officials not to certify the election results.  Slatesource

The state’s Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal to remove Trump based on the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban.”

The United States is barreling toward a 2024 rematch between President Biden and former President Trump that few Americans want to see.Biden has for months been hounded by questions about his age and voter concerns about whether he is up for another four years in the White House. The president would be 86 at the…
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Court voted 4-3 last week that ex-president was ineligible to run for White House again under US constitution’s insurrection clauseColorado police are working with the FBI to investigate threats directed at justices of the state’s supreme court after its decision to remove Donald Trump from the presidential primary ballot.The court voted 4-3 last week that…
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Help keep Salon independentAfter the U.S. Supreme Court declined to quickly decide Donald Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for trying to undo the 2020 election results, the former president urged a federal appeals court to dismiss the federal election interference case in Washington, DC, arguing that presidential immunity shields him from prosecution.Lawyers for…
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Trump shares poll showing voters associate potential second term with “revenge”  Yahoo Newssource