Utah Republican governor candidate Phil Lyman and his first pick for lieutenant governor Layne Bangerter (left) enter a Third District Court courtroom in West Jordan for a hearing on a lawsuit to include Bangerter on the primary ballot, on May 3, 2024. (Alixel Cabrera / Utah News Dispatch) A judge decided on Friday that Phil […]
A man convicted of a May 2021 Topeka murder was sentenced Thursday to life in prison, with no chance for parole until he’s served 51 years, eight months. Shawnee County District Judge Cheryl Rios imposed that sentence upon Jeremy F. Volle, who was convicted in March of crimes that included first-degree murder linked to the […]
An Illinois judge ruled Wednesday that former President Donald Trump should be taken off of the state’s ballot for the primary election, citing the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The decision came from the Circuit Court of Cook County, and the judge put the order on pause in anticipation of an appeal. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday heard two hours of historic arguments in a Colorado case to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot. The justices sounded highly skeptical of the effort. It’s the first time that voters have tried to block a candidate from the presidency under a once-obscure post-Civil War […]
WASHINGTON — Colorado voters who say former President Donald Trump should be barred from holding federal office because of his role in the events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol urged the Supreme Court on Friday to kick him off their state’s Republican primary ballot. Trump “intentionally organized and incited a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court should declare that Donald Trump is ineligible to be president again because he spearheaded the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss, lawyers leading the fight to keep him off the ballot told the justices on Friday. In a filing filled […]
Germany’s highest court has ruled that a small far-right party will not get any state funding for the next six years because its values and goals are unconstitutional and aimed at destroying the country’s democracy. The Federal Constitutional Court said the Die Heimat party, which used to be known as the National Democratic Party of […]
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley is an American citizen born in the United States who is perfectly eligible under the Constitution to serve as president — despite former President Donald Trump’s recent insinuations that she is not. And the same goes for every other rival candidate with immigrant heritage who has been targeted by […]
The candidacy of President Joe Biden is being challenged in Illinois, joining a mix of presidential candidates that some voters are trying to remove from the primary ballot. The deadline to file objections with the Illinois State Board of Elections was on Friday when Biden and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley received objections. Former […]
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday filed an appeal of the decision by Maine’s top election official that he is ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot. “[T]he Secretary’s Ruling was the product of a process infected by bias and pervasive lack of due process; is arbitrary, capricious, and characterized by abuse of discretion,” […]
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was the target of a “swatting call” on Friday night, state police said in a statement. The incident happened just a day after Bellows, a Democrat, ruled former President Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot next year. State police said they received a […]
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) issued a warning to states moving to keep former President Trump off the presidential ballot, saying the House of Representatives has the final say over whether electors from those states are certified on Jan. 6, 2025. “Maine, Colorado, and other states that might try to bureaucratically deny ballot access to any […]