8 h. ago Michigan judge dismisses charges against 15 of Trump’s 2020 fake electors

Judge says sufficient evidence of intent wasn’t given against those who signed files claiming Trump won 2020 electionA judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against a slate of electors who falsely signed on to documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election in the latest blow to efforts to hold the president and his allies accountable for attempting to overturn the results of the White House race he lost to Joe Biden.Sixteen people were initially charged with eight felonies each related to forgery and conspiracy by the Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, in 2023, though one of them had his charges dropped after he agreed to cooperate with the prosecution. The fake electors in Michigan will not go to trial. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against 'Cop City' protesters

A Georgia judge says he's going to dismiss racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training facility known as “Cop City."

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11 h. ago The Latest: Michigan judge dismisses charges against fake electors for Trump

A Michigan judge dismissed criminal charges Tuesday against 15 Republicans accused of trying to falsely certify President Donald Trump as the winner of the 2020 election, saying that because they seriously believed him, there was no intent to commit fraud

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32 h. ago Paramount names former Trump appointee as ombudsman to review ‘complaints of bias’ at CBS News

Kenneth Weinstein was nominated by Trump to serve as ambassador to Japan in 2020.

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4 d. ago Despite ethical concerns Trump says next year’s G20 Summit will be held at his Florida resort

Trump ultimately scrapped previous plans to host the 2020 G7 Summit at his Doral resort after widespread backlash to the idea

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5 d. ago Fox News executives called Jeanine Pirro a ‘reckless maniac’ while she still worked at network

Former anchor provided cause for concern among studio bosses who worried about what she might say on air about Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat, court filings show

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8 d. ago Trump says he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Former NYC mayor was sanctioned by courts and disbarred for amplifying false claims about the 2020 electionDonald Trump said Monday he will award Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, two days after his longtime political ally was seriously injured in a car crash.The decision places the award on a man once lauded for leading New York after the September 11, 2001, attacks and later sanctioned by courts and disbarred for amplifying false claims about the 2020 US presidential election. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, was also criminally charged in two states; he has denied wrongdoing. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters

President also wants to ban most voting by mail in push stemming from baseless claims related to 2020 election lossDonald Trump has said he will issue an executive order to mandate identification for all US elections, a move likely to be challenged in court as unconstitutional.“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!,” the US president said on Truth Social late on Saturday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Election denier who worked to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss is named top official for ‘Election Integrity’

Heather Honey worked to overturn presidential election results in Trump’s favor in 2020 and Arizona’s gubernatorial results in Kari Lake’s favor in 2022

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1 week ago Joe Rogan finally realizes Trump doesn’t have evidence of his biggest complaint

The podcaster gave Trump a huge platform when he was a guest on the show in the final week of the 2024 presidential campaign

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2 w. ago Republicans are trying to ensure we’ll never have another fair election | Judith Levine

From an executive order and redistricting to seeking to kill mail-in ballots, the party is conducting an all-out assault on voting rights“Christians, get out and vote, just this time,” Donald Trump exhorted the audience at a campaign event organized by the conservative Turning Point Action in July 2024. “In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”Since his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020, Trump has been building toward delivery on that promise, first by fomenting suspicion of widespread election fraud, then by trying to overturn the results via legal challenge and intimidation, and finally, on 6 January 2021, by force. Now the White House and Republicans both in Washington and the states are colluding more brazenly than ever to “fix it” – “it” meaning free and fair elections they might lose.Judith Levine is Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in Fascism Continue reading...

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2 w. ago At home and abroad US policy chaos has one constant: Trump’s self

When Putin blamed the 2020 US election result on mail-in voting he bolstered a Trump obsession – just one example of the blurring of international goals and domestic grievancesIt was a language he could understand. Donald Trump had lost the 2020 US presidential election, Russia’s Vladimir Putin told him last Friday, because it was rigged through mail-in voting.Three days later, the president announced that lawyers were drafting an executive order to eliminate mail-in balloting, a method used by nearly a third of Americans that has not been credibly linked to election fraud. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Abrego Garcia's lawyers want smuggling charges dismissed on grounds of vindictive prosecution

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a federal judge to dismiss a human smuggling case against him

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3 w. ago Account tied to Trump nominee posted conspiracy theories about Epstein, the 2020 election and Covid, report says

Erwin Antoni, the president’s pick to take over the Bureau of Labor Statistics, serves as the chief economist for The Heritage Foundation and contributed to Project 2025

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3 w. ago Republicans want to rig the midterm elections. Will they succeed? | Moira Donegan

The Republican party has already shown that its commitment to democratic elections is paper thinIf one mark of an autocratic regime is the meaningfulness of elections, you can make an argument that the United States has been backsliding away from a properly democratic form of government for a long time. In 2013’s Shelby county decision, the US supreme court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for states to impose a slew of restrictions on the franchise that were previously banned as part of an effort to prevent the re-establishment of Jim Crow; voting quickly became more burdensome and onerous in many Republican-controlled states.Three years before, in Citizens United, the same court declared that corporate money counted as political speech, thereby opening the floodgates on money in politics in ways that allowed the rich to distort public discourses ahead of elections. Donald Trump memorably tried to interfere with the 2020 census so that it would count as few of th...

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3 w. ago Trump says he will sign executive order and lead ‘movement’ against mail

Trump’s threat follows his claims that Putin agreed 2020 election was ‘rigged’ because of vote-by-mail ballots

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