Apr. 12—State officials asked a court in Santa Fe Friday to dismiss a lawsuit that contends they have violated a 1971 provision in the state constitution calling for the Legislature to control pollution and protect New Mexico’s “beautiful and healthful environment.” Attorneys for the Legislature and Governor’s Office contend if the court intervenes, as the […]
Hunter Biden is expected to ask a judge at a hearing Wednesday to dismiss tax charges filed against him last year, arguing that the case is politically motivated. Biden alleges prosecutors caved to pressure from Republican lawmakers, who launched an impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden, after an earlier plea deal fell through. […]
(PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — For Jeff Merkley’s newest book “Filibustered!” he looks back at two events spanning more than four decades in the U.S. Senate. The first was in summer 1976, when he was a student at Stanford University, two years out of David Douglas High School. As a summer intern for U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield, […]
Area residents, including the mother of a man who was killed by police, have filed a lawsuit alleging state control of the Kansas City Police Department is unconstitutional. A Missouri law allows the Board of Police Commissioners, which includes four governor-appointed members and Kansas City’s mayor, to run the police department. The federal lawsuit filed […]
Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked a federal judge to throw out the indictment charging him with retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club on grounds of presidential immunity, claiming they were his to keep because he designated them personal records while he was president. The decision to designate the documents as personal records under […]
A high school football coach in Georgia faces charges connected to the death of his girlfriend, Maryland police said. Carl Kearney Jr. was charged with first- and second-degree murder after his girlfriend, Patrina Best, was found dead Saturday, Feb. 17, in her Accokeek home, according to a Feb. 18 Prince George’s County Police Department news […]
Republican Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio) on Monday argued the latest Senate proposal to fund Ukraine and Israel could spark the impeachment of former President Trump if he is reelected in November. Vance sent a memo to each of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, in which he claimed “an impeachment time bomb,” is “buried,” in the bill’s […]
Everyone is aging. Right now, as you read this, you are aging. Regardless of external factors like socioeconomic status or personal factors like gender or sexual orientation, everyone is getting older all the time. Pew Research Center found that depending on what stage of life someone is in, the perception of what is considered old […]
Bill Maher had two blunt assessments during his “New Rules” segment on Friday’s episode of “Real Time”: First, that Donald Trump “is going to be president again,” and second, that “the battle” for America “isn’t right or left, it’s normal vs. crazy.” The latter conclusion came as part of a rant where Maher, criticizing both […]
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – President Joe Biden‘s son Hunter Biden posed a threat to public safety and cannot rely on his constitutional right to a firearm to avoid prosecution for federal gun charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing on Tuesday. Hunter Biden’s legal team has misinterpreted U.S. […]
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach on Wednesday told a Shawnee County judge that transgender residents should be blocked from changing the gender listed on their driver’s licenses as a legal challenge to a new state law defining man and woman plays out in court. The Republican state attorney general said testimony from trans Kansans, who […]
An old legal argument used by Donald Trump has come back to bite him. As Trump argues for immunity from prosecution, judges brought up his impeachment defense. Trump’s lawyers are now arguing the exact opposite of what his impeachment attorneys said in 2021. Donald Trump’s lawyer said he should be immune from criminal prosecution unless […]