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
Former United Nations Ambassador and Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is facing criticism after an answer she gave to the question of what caused the Civil War. During a campaign event in New Hampshire on Wednesday, a voter asked, “What was the cause of the United States Civil War?” “Well, don’t come with an easy … Read more
Michigan’s highest court on Wednesday is allowing Donald Trump to remain on the Republican primary ballot for now, but did not rule if the former president is eligible to run in the general election next November. The state’s top justices did not consider an appeal from voters who want to bar Trump from the 2024 … Read more
President Biden should have included Donald Trump in his list of Christmas pardons. He could have slipped it in — or somebody could have sneaked it on the teleprompter — when he announced the federal pardon of people convicted of the use or possession of marijuana on the eve of Christmas Eve. If it blew … Read more
The federal Liberals face a choice early in 2024: They can allow a sunset clause to take effect so that eligibility for medical assistance in dying expands to adults whose only reason for seeking it is a mental disorder. Or they can do what they did in 2023 and postpone it further, even indefinitely. Justice Minister … Read more
