The delays in Donald Trump’s Florida classified documents case will come to a head Thursday, the date U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon has set as a deadline for the former president and the case’s other defendants to file responses in a discovery dispute with the Justice Department, predicts former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance. Writing […]
ATLANTA — Five years ago, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg won plaudits from U.S. election officials for forcing Georgia to ditch its electronic voting machines because they were too susceptible to hacks. Now Totenberg is weighing a similar order against the state’s new machines — only this time, a slew of election officials are begging […]
China Evergrande After years of turbulence, Chinese property giant Evergrande was hit with a winding-up order by a judge in Hong Kong on Monday, setting up a multibillion-dollar battle between Western creditors and Chinese authorities. In a dramatic escalation of Evergrande’s plight, the world’s most indebted property company failed to convince Judge Linda Chan that […]
Donald Trump has found a new racist name to call his rival Nikki Haley, who is Indian American. Trump is no stranger to turning to racism and name calling against his political foes. A political science professor told BI the tactic often backfires against the candidate. He’s doing it again. Donald Trump is reaching for […]
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Wednesday explained why she believes former President Donald Trump’s courtroom antics — which saw him threatened with removal from the courtroom during E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against him earlier in the day — may backfire on him in the long term. McCaskill, talking to MSNBC’s Joy Reid, argued […]
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Saturday asked a federal appeals court to toss his D.C. election subversion case, arguing that he has “presidential immunity.” Trump’s lawyers in a 71-page filing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, argued that the former president’s actions to undo his loss following the […]
A number of Democratic lawmakers who served in the military and in the CIA say Israel’s tactics in the Gaza Strip are endangering efforts to defeat Hamas militants and called on President Joe Biden to use “all our leverage” to secure an immediate shift in Israel’s approach. In a letter sent Monday to Biden, the […]