Month: December 2023

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows speaks at the inauguration of Gov. Janet Mills, Jan. 4, 2023, at the Civic Center in Augusta, Maine. A swatting call was made Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, to the home of Bellows. A man called emergency services saying he broke…
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Maine’s top election official, who could face an impeachment attempt in the state Legislature over her decision to keep former President Donald Trump off the Republican primary ballot, had a hoax threat called into her house Friday night. The “swatting call,” as such hoaxes are known, involved a person calling police about 8:15 p.m. to say he’d…
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Watch CBS News By Katrina Kaufman Updated on: December 30, 2023 / 12:35 PM EST / CBS News Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says she was following Maine’s election law and upholding the U.S. Constitution when she disqualified Donald Trump from her state’s presidential primary ballot. Maine is the second state to bar Trump from…
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Michael Cohen Used Artificial Intelligence to Feed Lawyer Bogus Cases  Yahoo! Voicessource

Political organization No Labels’ founding chair and former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said the anger among Americans at the Republican and Democratic parties is unlike anything he’s seen before. “I’ve never seen this much anger at the two major parties,” Lieberman said in a Sunday interview with radio host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats…
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Saturday, December 30, 2023 Michael Cohen, former United States president Donald Trump’s personal attorney, admitted using Google’s AI chatbot, Bard, to accidentally cite fake legal cases in a court filing.The made-up citations were used to secure an early end to court-ordered supervision, allowing Cohen to be released from prison in 2021, according to Axios.Cohen claimed…
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Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed “millions and millions of totally unvetted migrants” are being admitted into the country and allowed to vote, he wrote on Truth Social on Saturday—the latest incendiary anti-immigrant statement from the former president, whose previous remarks about immigrants have been compared to Adolf Hitler’s statements about Jews.Former President Donald Trump…
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Trump Federal Election CaseAdvertisementSupported byThe filing by the special counsel, Jack Smith, was the latest move in an ongoing battle over whether former presidents can be criminally liable for things they did while in office.By Alan FeuerFederal prosecutors asked an appeals court on Saturday to reject former President Donald J. Trump’s claims that he is…
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Sign in or Subscribe See Offers In a filing Wednesday, attorneys for the former president said statements that Secretary of State Shenna Bellows made on social media show she already has decided Trump engaged in insurrection and that she is biased against him. You are able to gift 5 more articles this month.Anyone can access…
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New court filing: Smith challenges Trump’s immunity claim  CNNsource

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Legal Special counsel Jack Smith rejected Donald Trump’s contention that the criminal indictment of him is constitutionally invalid. Special Counsel Jack Smith arrives to give remarks on an unsealed indictment against former President Donald Trump on Aug. 1, 2023 in Washington. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images By Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney 12/30/2023 04:19 PM EST…
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Special Counsel for the Department of Justice Jack Smith rebuffed former President Trump’s claim that he should get immunity in Smith’s case related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in a Saturday filing.The former president’s legal team has said that Trump should be immune from prosecution in the case because the conduct noted in…
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Former Obama adviser David Axelrod warned Friday that a court decision removing former President Trump from the primary ballot “would rip the country apart” as legal questions mount over his candidate qualifications.Maine’s secretary of state determined this week that Trump should be barred from the primary ballot, citing his conduct surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol…
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Police in Colorado are investigating threats made against judges who ruled Donald Trump cannot be listed on the state's presidential primary ballot. Denver Police said they were providing extra patrols around the homes of justices in the city. The Denver FBI office said it was assisting local police.Colorado's Supreme Court ruled last week that Mr…
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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 privately shares concern conservative justices may be worried about being seen as ‘political’ and rule against himFind your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileDonald Trump doubles down on…
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In Maine, Questions Over Decision to Push Trump Off the Ballot  Yahoo Newssource

Trump Ballot DecisionsAdvertisementSupported byNews AnalysisThe legal issues are novel and tangled, experts said, and the justices may be wary of knocking a leading presidential candidate off the ballot.By Adam LiptakReporting from WashingtonThe Supreme Court, battered by ethics scandals, a dip in public confidence and questions about its legitimacy, may soon have to confront a case…
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Former President Trump went after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) for vetoing a proposed ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors on Saturday.“DeWine has fallen to the Radical Left,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “No wonder he gets loudly booed in Ohio every time I introduce him at Rallies, but I won’t…
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Watch CBS News By Scott MacFarlane Updated on: December 30, 2023 / 4:28 PM EST / CBS News Washington, D.C. — Special Counsel Jack Smith pressed his case that former President Donald Trump does not enjoy the protections of “presidential immunity” in the 2020 election conspiracy criminal case in an 82-page court document filed Saturday afternoon…
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Donald Trump ‘fears Supreme Court could BACK Colorado’s decision to take him off the ballot and that three con  Daily Mailsource

A fake swatting call was made Friday night to the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeELKADER, Iowa — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis offered the clearest indication yet that he would pardon former President Donald Trump if he were to be convicted on the multiple criminal charges he faces, clarifying previously murky answers on how the Republican governor would use…
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Colorado Republicans have appealed to the US Supreme Court after the state's top court ruled that Donald Trump was ineligible to run for president. The appeal means he will remain for now on the ballot for the Colorado primary.Last week, the ex-president was disqualified from running in the state for his alleged role in the…
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2024 Presidential ElectionAdvertisementSupported bySome critics say the battles over the former president’s ballot status are turning him into a martyr and eroding faith in American elections.By Jack Healy, Anna Betts, Mike Baker and Jill CowanAs the top elections official in Washington State, Steve Hobbs says he is troubled by the threat former President Donald J. Trump poses…
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