Tag: decided

Trump’s political fate likely won’t be decided by the courts after all

What once resembled a wall of legal obstacles that stood between Donald Trump and his return to the White House is now looking like little more than a series of speed bumps. Prosecutors handling cases from Georgia to Florida to Washington, D.C., are discovering that bringing groundbreaking criminal charges against a former president is a […]

Why Biden decided to speak out about the campus protests after days of silence

WASHINGTON — After days of silence from President Joe Biden about the eruption of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses nationwide, his decision to speak out Thursday was an acknowledgment that it was unavoidable to stay quiet for much longer, according to three people familiar with the decision, while Americans were seeing nonstop images of students […]

Why Trump decided not to call for a national abortion ban

Former President Donald Trump was facing pressure from anti-abortion activists on the right to embrace a national ban. Kellyanne Conway, his 2016 campaign manager who later became his White House counselor, was arguing for a 15-week ban. So was South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Trump’s longtime ally. Trump himself even toyed with the idea in […]