The possibility that former President Donald Trump could evade a criminal trial ahead of the November general election is coming closer to reality. Trump’s legal team has put in an effort to delay the beginnings of trials as much as possible. The former president has argued in several instances that the various indictments against him […]
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials blocking users on social media only violates the First Amendment when the officials claim to be posting on the government’s behalf. “When a government official posts about job-related topics on social media, it can be difficult to tell whether the speech is official or private,” Justice Amy […]
Stuck between a 20-ton rock and a Georgia hard place, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee attempted to split the baby in his ruling about District Attorney Fani Willis’s conduct of the election-related charges against President Donald Trump and others. McAfee will allow Willis to continue her unprecedented prosecution of Trump — but only […]
He has dominated the media landscape for decades, literally written the encyclopedia of politics, and even shown Europeans a thing or two about their history, so like the old EF Hutton ad says, when Michael Barone speaks, people listen. Appearing on the Heritage Foundation’s The Kevin Roberts Show this week to talk up his latest […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) isn’t giving up on keeping Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in his chamber. Manchin took himself out of contention for higher office when he bowed out of running for reelection last November and rejected calls to run for president in February. But Schumer recently floated a long-shot proposal of the […]
The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump‘s Georgia racketeering case ruled Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can remain on the case only if she removes the special prosecutor who was previously her boyfriend. In the much anticipated ruling, Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Willis must address the appearance of impropriety […]
A record 3.2 million migrants are expected to cross into the United States this year, 1 million more than during past spikes in the Reagan and Clinton eras, according to a new outlook. “We forecast U.S. southwest border encounters by Customs and Border Patrol at 2.7 million for FY 2024, based on the last three […]
Former President Donald Trump once again found himself in U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s courtroom on Thursday for a hearing in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in Florida. Cannon, a Trump appointee who was assigned last spring to oversee the former president’s prosecution on charges of mishandling classified documents, referred to Trump as “the defendant” […]
(The Center Square) – One of the most controversial bills passed by the Washington State Legislature this session has yet to be signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1589, dubbed by critics as the “natural gas ban bill,” would allow utilities – that is, Puget Sound Energy – to start planning how to move […]
(The Center Square) – The Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday passed a measure that would allow Georgia families to use state-funded education savings accounts for private school or other education-related uses. Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 233, the Georgia Promise Scholarship Act, by a 91-82 margin, a year after killing the measure. Under the measure, taxpayers […]
