House Speaker Mike Johnson told student protesters at Columbia University on Wednesday to “enjoy” their free speech before declaring that he would urge President Joe Biden to deploy the National Guard to universities and colleges across the country — where students are being arrested en masse in an increasingly violent …
Read More »'Losing All Credibility': Judge Torches Team Trump's Gag-Order Defense
Donald Trump’s alleged violations of a gag order restricting him from attacking witnesses, jurors, prosecutors, and court staff during his ongoing criminal hush money trial got their own day in court on Tuesday. During a tense hearing, Judge Juan Merchan heard arguments from Manhattan prosecutors requesting that Trump be sanctioned …
Read More »Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Ban One Specific Type of Emergency Care
Should where a woman lives determine whether she receives necessary medical care? That’s the heart of the question the Supreme Court will confront on Wednesday when it takes up a case concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, a Reagan-era law that says that any hospital that accepts …
Read More »Tabloid Exec Lifts Curtain on 'Catch and Kill' Scheme to Boost Trump in 2016
Jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial heard testimony on Tuesday from the architect of a notorious “catch-and-kill” scheme that buried damaging stories about the former president in the run-up to the 2016 election: former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. During his testimony on Tuesday, Pecker lifted the veil on …
Read More »'Election Fraud, Pure and Simple': Prosecutors Lay Out Criminal Case Against Trump
In October of 2016, Donald Trump’s fixer paid $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, a porn star who was shopping out claims of a scandalous affair between herself and Trump — who at the time was in the heat of his first campaign for president. The long tail of the scandal’s fallout …
Read More »Trump's Immunity Lawyer Has a Long History of Fighting Abortion Access
John Sauer, a lawyer arguing Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case, generated significant controversy when he asserted, in response to a judge’s hypothetical, that a president could not be prosecuted if he were to order the assassination of a political rival — unless he were first impeached and convicted. With that …
Read More »Trump Calls for Less Courthouse Security, More MAGA Protests
Donald Trump would really like his fans to protest outside of his criminal hush money trial in Manhattan. It’s not really happening, though, so Trump is lying about the police presence outside the court to create the impression that his fans aren’t able to get near the area. “We have …
Read More »Republican Senators Demand Biden Use National Guard to Suppress Columbia Protests
Self-avowed pro-First Amendment, anti-government repression Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are demanding President Joe Biden unleash the full force of the state’s National Guard to suppress pro-Palestinian student protests at Columbia University. “If [New York City Mayor] Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and [New York Governor] …
Read More »Gov. Greg Abbott Wants to 'End' Trans Teachers Expressing Their Gender in Texas
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suggested that he wants to end transgender and gender nonconforming individuals from expressing their gender while teaching in the state. At a speech delivered Friday at the Young Conservatives of Texas convention, Abbott described a report of a high school teacher who wore feminine clothing rather …
Read More »MTG Demands Speaker Mike Johnson 'Resign' or 'Be Vacated' Over Ukraine Aid
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has not given up her quest to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, demanding he either “resign” or “be vacated” after ushering through legislation to send military aid to Ukraine on Saturday. “Mike Johnson’s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and …
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