POLITICO’s 2023 Backhanded Awards – POLITICO

POLITICO’s 2023 Backhanded Awards – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Best performance by a German pretending to be president of Europe. Winner: Ursula von der Leyen Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images Poor Ursula von der Leyen. Try as she might not just to project power, but to wield it, the European Commission president runs … Read more

Colorado court’s Donald Trump ruling sets off political firestorm

Colorado court’s Donald Trump ruling sets off political firestorm

The Colorado Supreme Court ignited a political firestorm with its ruling that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to hold office again, disqualifying him from appearing on the state’s primary ballot. Just how far those embers reach — and how hot they burn — in coming weeks could shape the country’s political discourse and electoral … Read more

Trump’s lawyers ask appeals court to rule on immunity in late-night filing

Trump’s lawyers ask appeals court to rule on immunity in late-night filing

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has asked a federal appeals court to toss the criminal case alleging he violated multiple criminal statutes in his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, arguing that Trump possesses “presidential immunity.”  In a 71-page late-night filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District … Read more

Supreme Court Declines To Rule on Trump’s “Absolute Immunity” Defense (For Now)

Supreme Court Declines To Rule on Trump’s “Absolute Immunity” Defense (For Now)

The Supreme Court rejected a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday to issue an expedited ruling on whether former president Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution, allowing a lower court to continue reviewing the issue. The nation’s highest court’s decision could result in unintended consequences by boosting the GOP frontrunner’s attempts to … Read more

Donald Trump enters 2024 on cusp of unusual position: Election front-runner

Donald Trump enters 2024 on cusp of unusual position: Election front-runner

Donald Trump is on the verge of entering 2024 arguably holding a status that is unprecedented for him: Election front-runner. It’s an unfamiliar position for a candidate now suddenly leading most 2024 general-election polls in a way he never did in races past. This is despite his supporters attacking the U.S. Capitol, and despite the … Read more

POLITICO’s quiz of the year 2023 – POLITICO

POLITICO’s quiz of the year 2023 – POLITICO

<p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>Which of these European commissioners did not step away from Ursula von der Leyen’s top team this year?</span></strong></p> Jutta Urpilainen Ylva Johansson Mariya Gabriel <p><strong><span style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0)”>Von der Leyen joined Mark Rutte and Giorgia Meloni on a trip to which country to strike a deal to limit migrant departures?</span></strong></p> … Read more

Rudy Giuliani Files for Bankruptcy Following $148 Million Defamation Judgment

Rudy Giuliani Files for Bankruptcy Following 8 Million Defamation Judgment

Rudy Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday as he seeks to appeal a jury’s stunning $148 million judgment to two Georgia election workers whom he defamed after the 2020 presidential election. The filing came a day after the federal judge who oversaw the case handed down an order that would immediately force Giuliani to … Read more

Trump apparently recorded pressuring Michigan election canvassers. What was said?

Trump apparently recorded pressuring Michigan election canvassers. What was said?

Trump apparently recorded pressuring Michigan election canvassers. What was said? – CBS News Watch CBS News Former President Donald Trump was apparently recorded pressuring two Michigan canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to a Detroit News report. CBS News campaign reporter Katrina Kaufman is following the new allegations. Be … Read more

Nikki Haley closing the gap on Donald Trump in New Hampshire

Nikki Haley closing the gap on Donald Trump in New Hampshire

There’s an actual political contest brewing in New Hampshire. With just over a month left before Granite State voters go to the polls on Jan. 23, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley continues to close the gap between her campaign for the Republican nomination in the first-in-the-nation primary and that of her former boss, 45th President … Read more

The Pitch for a Unity Ticket in 2024 Keeps Getting Weaker

The Pitch for a Unity Ticket in 2024 Keeps Getting Weaker

As questions endure about the electability and the competency of the two leading candidates for president, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, No Labels—a group that has pitched itself as a bipartisan band intent upon propping up a third-party candidacy with a “unity ticket” in 2024—seems to be adopting—if quietly—the latest Republican position du jour on … Read more