Jimmy Williams Former President Donald Trump has faced challenges in securing a bond to cover the $464 million civil fraud judgment against him and his co-defendants, according to a court filing on Monday. Trump and his company must post a bond for the full amount by next week to halt …
Read More »Supreme Court Upholds Decisions Barring Former New Mexico Official From Ever Holding Elected Office In The State
Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday extinguished Couy Griffin’s last hope of ever holding elected office again in New Mexico. New Mexico’s courts in 2023 disqualified Griffin, a convicted Jan. 6 insurrectionist and former Otero County commissioner, from being an elected official under Section 3 …
Read More »DeSantis Signs Bills Intended To Drive Undocumented Immigrants Out Of Florida
Michael Moline, Florida Phoenix Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Friday designed to make it harder for undocumented immigrants to live in the state — thereby, he said, possibly deterring them from coming here. The measures include driving without a license, “non-official ID cards,” and bumping up certain criminal penalties, all …
Read More »House Speaker Johnson Says IVF Should Be Protected — Just Not By Congress
Jennifer Shutt, Wisconsin Examiner U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that it’s up to states and not Congress to preserve access to in vitro fertilization, weighing in on a growing national debate and campaign issue. “It’s not my belief that Congress needs to play a role here,” the Louisiana …
Read More »Fulton Judge Tosses Six Counts In Georgia 2020 Election Racketeering Case
Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has dismissed six of 41 charges against Donald Trump and multiple co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 presidential election interference case. McAfee ruled Wednesday that the Fulton District Attorney’s office has not provided enough evidence to show six of the …
Read More »Judge Rules Fani Willis Should Not Be Disqualified from Prosecuting Trump Case
Jimmy Williams A Georgia judge ruled on Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should not be disqualified from prosecuting the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and several co-defendants. However, the judge imposed a major condition related to a conflict of interest stemming from Willis’ romantic relationship …
Read More »Schumer Levels Heavy Criticism At Israel On Senate Floor, Calls For Elections There
Ashley Murray, Georgia Recorder Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer urged an overhaul of both Israeli and Palestinian Authority leadership and said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has lost his way,” in strong and lengthy comments delivered on the U.S. Senate floor Thursday morning. The New York Democrat — the highest-ranking …
Read More »Federal Lawsuit Targets Use of AI Deepfakes to Attack Voting Rights
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams New Hampshire residents and voting rights groups on Thursday launched a federal lawsuit against a Democratic consultant and two companies behind January robocalls featuring audio that mimicked Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden’s voice using artificial intelligence to discourage recipients from participating in the state’s primary election. …
Read More »Looking Toward November, President Joe Biden Targets ‘shrinkflation’
Casey Quinlan, Oklahoma Voice The White House retweeted Cookie Monster about it. The president made his own Super Bowl video about it. And then President Joe Biden made it a point in his State of the Union speech: “Shrinkflation” must be stopped. Biden said during his annual address that he …
Read More »VP Harris Becomes First Vice President to Visit Abortion Clinic
Julia Conley, Common Dreams Following repeated calls by reproductive justice groups in recent months for the Biden administration to more forcefully fight for abortion rights and against the stigmatization of care, Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday made history by visiting an abortion clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota. Harris is …
Read More »Biden’s Budget Proposal Asks For Free Preschool, College Affordability And Student Mental Health
Nadra Nittle Originally published by The 19th High-quality preschool. Youth mental health. College affordability. President Joe Biden’s proposed budget for next fiscal year would make education investments, many of them unprecedented, that prioritize the needs of families. The budget blueprint outlines Biden’s policy priorities during a year when he’s on …
Read More »House Votes To Ban TikTok Unless It Is Sold By China-Controlled Parent
Ashley Murray, Georgia Recorder Citing major national security concerns, the U.S. House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that effectively bans TikTok unless the company splits from its Chinese owner ByteDance. The 352-65 vote occurred just a week after lawmakers introduced the bipartisan proposal and days after the powerful House Committee …
Read More »After Two Months Of Primaries And Caucuses, Biden, Trump Clinch Their Nominations
Jacob Fischler, Nebraska Examiner The rematch is set. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump clinched their parties’ nominations for president by winning state primaries Tuesday, setting up the same choice voters saw in the 2020 election. Both candidates are unpopular with the general electorate, but neither faced serious …
Read More »It’s Equal Pay Day — And Even The White House Has A Gender Pay Gap
Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th Though pay equity has been a policy focus for President Joe Biden, he still hasn’t delivered on parity within his own White House. Women working in the White House were earning 80 cents for every $1 men earned in 2023, a gap wider …
Read More »Bill Demanding Justice for Breonna Taylor Would Ban No-Knock Warrants Nationwide
Rights advocates on Monday applauded U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey for taking a “bold step toward healing and justice” by introducing the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, which would ban nationwide the kind of no-knock warrants that led to the 26-year-old woman’s death in 2020. Nearly four years to the day …
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