Maine’s secretary of state on Thursday ruled former President Trump is disqualified from holding office and appearing on the state’s primary ballot under section 3 of the 14th Amendment over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol. “The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our … 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
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
Colorado’s Republican Party asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to review the state’s top court’s ruling last week that disqualified former President Donald Trump from the GOP primary ballot because of his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. The appeal effectively extends the stay of the … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a simple promise to Germans after taking office: “You’ll never walk alone.” Scholz, a Social Democrat, borrowed the phrase from Liverpool Football Club’s anthem and has invoked it, mantra-like, at moments of tension, such as when Russia … Read more
By Marshall Cohen and Devan Cole | CNN The Colorado Republican Party says it has asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the unprecedented state Supreme Court ruling that removed Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 ballot. The Colorado GOP was also a party in the case and is fighting to preserve its right to include Trump on … Read more
Washington — The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal from a group of voters in the state who challenged former President Donald Trump’s candidacy for the presidency under the Constitution’s “insurrection clause.” In a brief order, the state high court denied a request from four voters to review a Michigan Court of Appeals … Read more
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell risks clearing the way for Donald Trump to win the presidency in 2024 if he doesn’t immediately start cutting interest rates, a top progressive lawmaker claimed Wednesday. Ro Khanna, an outspoken California Democrat who has repeatedly blasted Powell over the Fed’s handling of inflation, once again took aim at the … Read more
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year. When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate … Read more
