• Trump 'plays his New York criminal trial off his Florida docs case' by seeking new delay

    Donald Trump on Saturday asked Judge Cannon to delay certain deadlines in his classified documents case, citing the criminal hush money trial he is facing.Trump has received numerous delays in the classified documents case, in which the former president stands accused of stashing away documents from the White House at his Mar-a-Lago golf club. In this instance, he's using his upcoming criminal case in New York to seek a delay on disclosure deadlines to reveal information to Special Counsel Jack...

  • A new police force will be called in to review the Met Police's handing of any new evidence in the Stephen Lawrence case in a huge embarrassment for under fire commissioner Sir Mark Rowley

    Stephen Lawrence, 18, an aspiring architect, was murdered on his way home in an unprovoked attack by a gang of racists in Eltham, south-east London, in April 1993.

  • Turley: Trump Is Right — New York Case Is an 'Embarrassment'

    Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley said Monday on Fox News Channel's "America Reports" that former President Donald Trump's New York trial for allegedly falsifying business records is an "embarrassment." | Clips

  • GOP senator calls for US retaliatory strikes on Iran

    Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called for retaliatory strikes against Iran after Tehran launched drone and cruise missile attacks against Israel on Saturday. “Iran has begun launching drone strikes on Israel,” Blackburn said Saturday on social media platform X. “@POTUS — we must move quickly and launch aggressive retaliatory strikes on Iran.” Blackburn's post gives

  • Potential Trump Case Juror Has Son Who Works for a House Democrat

    A woman whose son works for a House Democrat told the court that it would not affect her ability to serve as a juror on the Trump hush money case and be fair and impartial.

  • Trump's new grift: Charging GOP candidates to use his name

    Poor Donald Trump. It seems he isn’t selling enough $399 high-tops or $60 Bibles, and his Truth Social stock is in the toilet, so it’s time for a new, new, new, new grift: charging his fellow Republicans for uttering his name. The Trump campaign announced in a letter Politico obtained that Republican candidates and committees are now expected to pay “a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC” for using his “name, image, and likeness in fundraising...

  • Senate decides not to bother with House GOP's dumb impeachment stunt

    House Republicans really wanted an impeachment of someone. President Joe Biden, preferably, or his son Hunter, or maybe Hunter’s laptop, or perhaps Hunter’s dog walker. They decided on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who didn’t commit any high crimes or misdemeanors but did attempt to execute the policies of the administration in which he serves.  On Wednesday, the Senate took one look at the articles of impeachment oh-so-solemnly delivered by a hard-right House faction just...

  • Trump endorses GOP challenger to House Republican who voted to impeach him

    Donald Trump on Friday endorsed a primary challenger to Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington, one of two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach the former president over his role in the Jan. 6 riot. In a Truth Social post, Trump threw his support behind Jerrod Sessler, a former petty-officer in the Navy who has gone after Newhouse for his impeachment vote. "Jerrod Sessler is a fantastic candidate and will be a GREAT Congressman for Washington State’s 4th Congressional District," Trump...

  • List of GOP Senators Who Didn't Sign a Call for Mayorkas Impeachment Trial

    Six Republican senators decided against signing a stern letter that was sent to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, demanding an impeachment trial for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.House Republicans impeached Mayorkas on their second attempt in February, accusing the secretary of ignoring immigration laws and making "false statements" about the U.S.-Mexico border. The articles of impeachment are expected to be delivered to the Senate by House Speaker Mike Johnson...

  • 97% of voters know nothing about the Supreme Court's new abortion case

    The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday that will inform what could arguably be the court's most consequential abortion ruling since it upended 50 years of abortion policy in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision. Yet fresh polling conducted in seven battleground states by Navigator Research shows that 97% of likely voters know very little about the 40-year-old federal law that lies at the heart of the legal battle—the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.  Often...

  • Not a winning strategy: Four times House GOP all-or-nothing politics has cost it

    In the 118th Congress, House Republicans have been riddled with party infighting and chaos since being sworn into office earlier in 2023.  After 15 different votes to elect former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, disagreements over sending aid to Ukraine during Russia’s war, and a failed bipartisan border bill, this Congress is set to […]

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    GOP rep makes curious ‘plea’ to prospective jurors in Trump case

    While criminal trials often have dramatic moments, the process of selecting a jury isn’t exactly riveting. An NBC News report on the first day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial noted, “The quest to find a jury of 12 people and six alternates got off to a slow start Monday, as more than half of the 96 potential jurors summoned to the Manhattan courtroom said they couldn’t be ‘fair and impartial’" when it comes to the former president. But as the day got underway in New York, one of the presumptive...