The Supreme Court’s striking 6-3 ruling in Donald Trump’s immunity case on Monday means that it will be that much more difficult to use the criminal courts to hold a former president accountable, giving the president more power to act with impunity. The same justices who ruled to jail people who are homeless and sleeping […]
After a dispute lasting more than five years, Spain’s ruling Socialists (PSOE) and the largest opposition party, the conservative People’s Party (PP), have reached an agreement, mediated by the EU, on the replacement of key judicial posts. Spain’s Socialist Justice Minister Félix Bolaños and conservative member of the European Parliament (MEP) Esteban González Pons reached […]
The Conservatives have narrowly snatched the Toronto-St Paul’s seat from the Liberals, in a huge political upset that is expected to intensify political pressure on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Candidate Don Stewart won the closely watched by-election by a little more than 500 votes. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre described Mr Stewart’s win as a […]
(Bloomberg) — Canada’s Conservative Party won a special election in a district in central Toronto, dealing a substantial blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party ahead of a national vote expected next year. Most Read from Bloomberg Voters in Toronto-St. Paul’s elected Conservative candidate Don Stewart to the House of Commons, flipping a seat […]
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), an adviser to the Senate Republican leadership team, has circulated a letter to colleagues pushing back on conservative lawmakers who want to reform the GOP conference rules to take power away from the Republican leader. Senate conservatives led by Sens. Mike Lee (Utah), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Rick Scott (Fla.) and Ted […]
SIR – Michael Gove has suggested that Liz Truss is to blame for the Conservative Party’s dire election prospects (report, June 21). Presumably he feels that voters are not concerned by: partygate; strikes; sky-high rental prices; an abysmal Brexit deal; years of Tory infighting; frozen income tax bands; NHS waiting lists; the surge in illegal […]
A recent BuzzFeed post about Project 2025 — a far-right plan for next year if a conservative is elected president — received hundreds of comments from people expressing their thoughts on the unprecedented policy proposals. Project 2025 intends to remove the Department of Education, remove access to abortion drugs, limit birth control, dismantle the Department […]
Prime minister Rishi Sunak settled on 4 July for the general election after months of speculation. But while the economic news is good, with inflation coming down, the polls are still heavily against the Tories. The last general election was in 2019, when Boris Johnson and the Tories won 365 seats, while Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour […]
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday presented a grim picture for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak‘s Conservative Party, and one pollster warned that the party faced “electoral extinction” in July 4’s election. The polls come just over halfway through the election campaign, after a week in which both […]
Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist Reform UK party has overtaken the governing Conservative Party in the run-up to next month’s general election, according to a new poll released on Thursday in more bad news for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The YouGov survey conducted from June 12 to 13 on a sample of 2,211 adults projects that […]
Proposition 8, the one-sentence ban on same-sex marriage that became California law in 2008, may no longer be in force, ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court more than a decade ago. But within the headquarters of the California Family Council, an official sponsor of the amendment, its passage is still recalled with a sense […]
Conservatives are calling for a boycott of department store Kohl’s over its refusal to sponsor the Republican National Convention, which is being held in the state where the retailer is headquartered. Some posters have even pledged to “Bud Light the f*** out of” Kohl’s in reference to the boycott that took a massive bite of […]