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Tennessee’s Shelby County Commission voted on Wednesday to reinstate Rep. Justin Pearson to the state’s House of Representatives. The unanimous vote came less than a week after Republicans expelled Pearson and fellow Black lawmaker Justin Jones as punishment for participating in a gun control protest on the House floor. “The …

Donald Trump is suing his former attorney Michael Cohen in retaliation for his role in the criminal case against the former president. Trump is accusing Cohen of violating attorney-client privilege and seeking $500 million in damages for “breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion, and breaches of contract,” in a …

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s role on Jan. 6 has launched a probe into allegations the former president and his allies defrauded donors by touting false claims of election fraud. According to a report from The Washington Post, Smith’s office has issued a series of wide-ranging subpoenas to …

Donald Trump’s legal team says the saturation press coverage of his criminal case against him in Manhattan means he can’t get a fair trial in the defamation case against him filed by E. Jean Carroll — at least for now. But attorneys for Carroll say that the former president is …

In his first public interview since being arraigned on federal charges of falsification of business records, Donald Trump sat down with Tucker Carlson for an interview where the Fox host was more set prop than one of the biggest names in cable news. None of the bravado Carlson displayed when …

There aren’t many politicians, on either side of the aisle, who have been harder on Mohammed bin Salman than Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina senator squarely blamed the Saudi Arabian crown prince for the 2017 murder of Saudi-born journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi. “He is irrational, he is unhinged, …

J.D. Vance, the ‘hillbilly’ venture capitalist and now Republican Senator from Ohio, frequently rails against the menace of Big Tech and its alleged bias against conservatives. Less frequent are his discussions about his investments in smaller tech firms — and how his calls to hobble giants such as YouTube could …

Delaware Judge Eric Davis sanctioned Fox News on Wednesday after the company was caught withholding evidence from Dominion’s lawyers, including recorded conversations with Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. Dominion and Fox are in the throes of a $1.6 billion dollar defamation suit over the network’s attempts to link …

Republicans are rallying around Daniel Perry, a man convicted of murdering Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster in 2020. On Monday night, Foster’s actions got a resounding endorsement from the most notorious protest shooter in recent memory: Kyle Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to discuss Texas Governor Greg …

On the evening of Friday, April 7 — the Christian holiday Good Friday — religious-liberty-lawyer-turned-federal-judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued an order suspending distribution of mifepristone, the most widely used abortion medication in America, nationwide within seven days. By Monday morning, lawyers and reproductive rights advocates had launched themselves full force into …