Former President Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until at least September after the judge agreed Tuesday to weigh the possible effect of a new Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. Trump had been scheduled to face sentencing July 11 on his New York conviction on […]
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court chose an unusual time to declare for the first time that presidents — past and future — are immune from the criminal law when it comes to their use of official or constitutional powers. It comes just as former President Trump — who once promised to […]
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Dr. Chris Cooper wrote an analysis for the London School of Economics and Political Science blog on US Politics & Policy on why the Old North State is the “purple state to watch” in 2024’s general election. You can find his post here. Source link
With the second primary (run-off) primary begin held tomorrow (May 14), Dr. Chris Cooper takes a look at the use of a voting technique that may have avoided the use of a run-off election: ranked-choice voting. Cooper details ranked-choice voting’s brief history and quiet death at The Assembly at: https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/elections/ranked-choice-votingnorth-carolina-elections/ Source […]
Justice Jackson Warns New Ruling Could ‘Devastate’ Federal Regulators Stephan: We are no longer a genuine democracy and the minority of Justices on the Supreme Court realize this. Read this dissent on the Corner Post regulatory decision and you can see that Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan all […]
Associated Justice Sonia Sot0mayor. Credit: AP WASHINGTON, DC — In an unsparing dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Supreme Court allowed a president to become a “king above the law” in its ruling that limited the scope of criminal charges against former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the […]
Nigel Farage was right to condemn the statements of a Reform volunteer filmed by an undercover Channel 4 team. He was also right to ask about who the man was and why he volunteered for that particular canvass. The media is very selective about where it goes for under cover […]
Lib Dem’s revel in false “ facts”. Everywhere I go I see large signs saying “Lib Dems winning here”. On past form and present polls in a majority of these cases it will be a lie as they will lose again. It is a bad form of lie, the self […]
