Counties in swing states like Georgia overwhelmed with requests at the same time as they scramble to prepare for 2024Deb Cox has been elections director of Lowndes county in southern Georgia for more than a decade – and has never before received so many time-consuming demands for public information.Like many elections officials across the country,…
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Elections “A thought or a notion comes in and it comes out of his mouth. There’s not a lot of filter that goes on,” he said of Trump. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is seen at the Capitol on Nov. 14, 2023. | Francis Chung/POLITICO By Kelly Garrity 12/10/2023 10:26 AM EST Link CopiedSome Republicans have…
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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 inFormer president addressed his ‘dictator on day one’ claims in a keynote address to New York Young Republican Club gala Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileDonald Trump…
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Trump doubles down on ‘dictator for one day’ comments in new speech at New York gala MSNBCsource
Watch CBS News By Robert Costa December 10, 2023 / 9:45 AM EST / CBS News California Republican Kevin McCarthy holds a place in history as the first-ever Speaker of the House to be voted out of that position. Historic, but looking at how his tenure began, hardly a shock. Back in January, it took…
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Former President Donald Trump campaigned in his home state of New York on Saturday. Trump headlined the annual gala of the New York Young Republicans Club to outline what his campaign has to offer. During his comments, he referred to President Joe Biden, who beat him in 2020 as “Crooked Joe,” the same nickname Trump…
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Federal court rules Trump free to speak about special counsel Jack Smith but maintains other restrictionsDonald Trump may now assail the special counsel who brought the federal criminal case against him over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, in addition to being free to criticize the judge, the justice department, the Biden administration…
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“I Will Support Donald Trump”: Ex-Speaker McCarthy Endorses 2024 GOP Frontrunner, Mulls Cabinet Role Vanity Fairsource
The former congresswoman, a conservative Republican, was purged by her party. Her memoir makes chilling readingDonald Trump stands ready to knife US democracy. A year ago, he called for terminating the constitution. He has since announced that if re-elected, he wants to weaponize federal law enforcement against his political enemies. He has suggested that Gen…
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Trump Takes 2024 Lead as Biden Approval Hits New Low, WSJ Poll Finds – WSJ The Wall Street Journalsource
New York Attorney General Letitia James said that experts called for former President Trump’s defense this week actually helped her legal case alleging Trump and his company falsified business records.“Donald Trump can continue to try to distract from reality. You can continue to call me names,” she said in a video message Friday. “But as…
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Former President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he returns to the courtroom from a break at New York Supreme Court, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)Former President Donald Trump, center, sits at the defense table with his attorney’s Christopher Kise, left,…
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90% of our support comes from you. Invest in WABE today! Sam Gringlas | WABE December 4th, 2023Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer says his client should not go to trial in Georgia before the 2024 election.Steve Sadow, in his courtroom debut as Trump’s lead Georgia counsel, urged Fulton Superior Judge Scott McAfee to delay setting…
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Subscribe and get breaking news, commentary, and opinions on law firms, lawyers, law schools, lawsuits, judges, and more.(Photo by Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty Images)Donald Has Choice Words For Joe Tacopina: Unsurprisingly, several of them are in caps lock.Layoffs Hit This Top 50 Firm: A lack of work put these associates out of a job.Showing Up Really Is…
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Help keep Salon independentDespite having lost most of his New York civil fraud trial before it began, lawyers for Donald Trump have resorted to trying legal maneuvers that have confounded legal experts. Last week, according to The Daily Beast, the former president's defense asked the judge for a "directed verdict," which is essentially an outright…
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Trump is even stronger than he looks against his Republican rivals CNNsource
ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timePresident Joe Biden said Tuesday that his re-election campaign was prompted in part by Donald Trump’s decision to run for president again and an effort to block his predecessor from reclaiming the White House.“If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running,” Biden…
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Legal In a new filing, his team described interviewing more than a dozen of the top intelligence officials in Trump’s administration. Maricopa County (Ariz.) ballots cast in the 2020 election are examined and recounted by contractors seeking evidence to support claims by Trump supporters of malfeasance and interference in Phoenix on May 6, 2021. |…
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) revealed that she was uninvited from President Trump’s 2020 White House holiday party after questioning his claims of widespread voter fraud in that year’s election.In her new book, “Oath and Honor,” Cheney recalls that the snub came after she released a statement calling on Trump to provide evidence for his…
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis doesn’t appear to be messing around when it comes to former Donald Trump.On Thursday, The Guardian reported on newly obtained emails from the District Attorney, revealing that Willis is aiming for serious jail time for Trump. We have a long road ahead,” the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis,…
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Help keep Salon independentFormer President Donald Trump’s attorney last week said that if his client becomes the Republican nominee for president, holding a trial in Georgia in the months leading up to the general election would be deemed as "election interference."Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee opened a discussion for trial timing when the…
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Opinion | Can Nikki Haley’s ‘Strategy of Conviction’ Beat Trump? The Wall Street Journalsource
Trump trial news: Will the Supreme Court get involved? Slatesource