Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday that he has vetoed a bill that would have banned medical practitioners from providing gender-affirming care for transgender minors, saying he believes gender-affirming care is a decision families should make, not the government. The Republican governor said he arrived at his decision to veto House Bill 68, also … Read more
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI (Associated Press) DENVER — First, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump wasn’t eligible to run for his old job in that state. Then, Maine’s Democratic secretary of state ruled the same for her state. Who’s next? Both decisions are historic. The Colorado court was the first court to apply … Read more
President Joe Biden is responding to his predecessor’s divisive Christmas message. In a tweet on Thursday, Biden shared an article about former President Donald Trump wishing his political enemies a Merry Christmas by telling them to “rot in hell.” “There’s an expression they say in church sometimes: Love your enemies, do good to those who … Read more
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley retreated on Thursday from an answer she gave during a presidential town hall in New Hampshire a day earlier, in which she did not mention slavery when asked about the cause of the US Civil War. “Of course, the Civil War was about slavery, that’s the easy part,” Haley … Read more
Outgoing City Council President Ed Flynn said the vote to block $13.3 million in federal counter-terrorism funding for the metro region showed the council was “not serious about public safety,” an attitude he hopes will shift with four new members. Flynn, who had been pushing last week for an emergency meeting to reconsider the funding … Read more
The first report from the inquiry into foreign interference in federal elections is now set to come out two months later than originally planned. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced Thursday the federal government has granted Justice Marie-Josée Hogue an extension on her interim report on foreign interference in federal elections. According to her terms … Read more
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Maine became the second state to deem former President Donald Trump ineligible for the presidency on Thursday less than two weeks after Colorado barred Trump from the state ballot. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, ruled on Thursday that Trump’s candidacy in the state was void “because he is not … Read more
By Marshall Cohen, Zachary Cohen, Jeremey Herb and Katelyn Polantz | CNN Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail. So, … Read more
The Colorado Republican Party on Wednesday appealed that state’s Supreme Court decision that found former President Donald Trump is ineligible for the presidency, the potential first step to a showdown at the nation’s highest court over the meaning of a 155-year-old constitutional provision that bans from office those who “engaged in insurrection.” The first impact of … Read more
COLORADO — Congresswoman Lauren Boebert announced Wednesday she will seek the 2024 Republican nomination to represent Colorado’s 4th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. Congresswoman Boebert released a video on Facebook addressing her decision and issued the following statement: “My mission has always been and will always be to defend our freedoms … Read more
