Tag: conservative

Conservative Legal Icon Stuns Ali Velshi With Plea To Jack Smith

Conservative former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig on Sunday surprised MSNBC’s Ali Velshi with his argument that special counsel Jack Smith should definitely attempt to still bring Donald Trump to trial in the former president’s election subversion case before the 2024 election. On the eve of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on whether Trump is […]

She cemented a conservative Supreme Court, but a ‘cautious’ Justice Barrett sometimes resists the far-right flank

WASHINGTON — Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett appeared to lose patience last week with the right-wing narrative that the Biden administration had unlawfully coerced social media companies to remove politically charged content. In authoring the Supreme Court’s ruling that threw out a lawsuit brought by Republican-led states and several disgruntled social media users, Barrett took […]

Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorce

Some prominent conservative lawmakers and commentators are advocating for ending no-fault divorce, laws that exist in all 50 US states and allow a person to end a marriage without having to prove a spouse did something wrong, like commit adultery or domestic violence. The socially conservative, and often religious, rightwing opponents of such divorce laws […]

Conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon gives $50 million to pro-Trump super PAC

By Jason Lange (Reuters) – Conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon, an heir of the Pittsburgh-based Mellon banking family, gave $50 million last month to a super PAC supporting Republican Donald Trump‘s presidential bid, according to a federal disclosure filed on Thursday. The super PAC, known as MAGA Inc, has been ramping up outlays on television ads […]

Conservative pastor’s abuse scandal doesn’t do Trump any favors

Robert Morris, the founding pastor of a prominent Texas megachurch, has spent years telling congregants that about a “moral failure” from his past. The evangelical Christian didn’t go into detail, but he conceded that it involved a sexual sin that he committed as a young minister. This week, as NBC News reported, the story took […]

Boris Johnson ‘clearly an asset’ to Conservative election campaign

Boris Johnson is “clearly an asset” to the Tory election campaign, a British Cabinet minister has insisted, after it emerged the former UK prime minister is no longer expected to appear on the trail. UK work and pensions secretary Mel Stride said the former Conservative leader is offering support in the “modern way” by making […]