Special counsel Jack Smith’s latest brief to the Supreme Court on Donald Trump’s immunity claim strives to ensure that the justices’ decision puts the Jan. 6 trial back on track, ending the detour the former president has extracted from a weak argument. The bulk of the brief Smith filed Monday is a methodical rejection of […]
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is expected to be pulled from the campaign trail for at least two months starting next week as he stands trial in New York, the first criminal prosecution of a former president in American history. Trump is accused of falsifying business records in an attempt to hide
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Political blowback from both sides of the aisle came swiftly in Arizona on Tuesday following the electoral swing state’s Supreme Court ruling that reinstates an 1864 law banning all abortions except in cases when the mother’s life is at risk. The ruling immediately thrust Arizona — which swung for President Biden in the 2020 election
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Although Haley Fox, 30, frequently chats politics with friends and family, she said, the moment the phrase “election 2024” comes up she feels her body fill with dread. “There hasn’t been anything that has represented me for a really long time,” said Fox, a San Diego-based photographer. “So, like, 2024, just seeing what we have
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With a second-place tie, three Democrats appear to be headed to the November ballot in the race for a coveted Silicon Valley congressional seat. The extremely unusual situation comes after weeks of uncertainty, with second-place finishers Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian and Assemblymember Evan Low of Campbell repeatedly trading positions, often while separated by
The arc of the moral universe — the one that is supposedly long and bending toward justice — seems finally to be edging closer to its mark. A series of events in recent days — the defenestration of Ronna McDaniel, threatened disbarment of John Eastman, capitulation of Kari Lake in a defamation lawsuit — suggests
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Ever wonder what agents at the Central Intelligence Agency were thinking the day their new commander in chief used CIA headquarters as the backdrop for lies about his inauguration crowd? Donald Trump getting the weather wrong was innocuous. But it had to be unnerving to see someone so powerful be so dishonest about something so
John Eastman, the former Orange County law school dean who helped forge Donald Trump’s legal strategy for retaining power after losing his 2020 presidential bid, should be disbarred, a State Bar Court judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Yvette Roland’s recommendation to yank the 63-year-old Eastman’s license to practice law in California will go to the state
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ROSEVILLE, Calif. — By now Victoria Thompson has heard it many times. She’s crazy. She’s throwing her vote away. Worse, those who loathe Donald Trump say she’s helping the unscrupulous ex-president reclaim the White House — even though she’s never voted for him and never will — by refusing to back Joe Biden’s reelection. Thompson is
NBC News has scrapped its plan to make former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel an on-air contributor to its political coverage. “After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor,” NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde said Tuesday in a
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