DENVER (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling barring him from the Colorado ballot, setting up a high-stakes showdown over whether a constitutional provision prohibiting those who “engaged in insurrection” will end his political career. Trump appealed a 4-3 ruling in December by the Colorado […]
***Watch previous news on Donald Trump above.*** PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday appealed a ruling by Maine’s secretary of state barring him from the state’s primary ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump, the early front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, […]
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,” […]
Donald Trump formally appealed a decision by Maine’s top election official to remove him from the ballot on Tuesday, asking a superior court to reverse the decision. Maine secretary of state Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, removed Trump from the ballot on 28 December, saying the former president had violated section 3 of the 14th amendment, […]
Jan. 2—The mayor’s office said the city’s timeline to demolish the Haiku Stairs will start soon. The group Friends of Haiku Stairs expects to carry its legal fight to save 4, 000 feet of steel steps built on a sheer ridgeline above Kaneohe into the new year. Friends President Sean Pager said his group will […]
The teen immigrant charged in the death of a St. Johns County sheriff’s sergeant who collapsed and died after struggling to detain him has been ruled incompetent to proceed to trial. Judge R. Lee Smith’s ruling was filed with the St. Johns County clerk of court Friday. Several experts testified on Dec. 22 that Virgilio […]
A new California law widely restricting where concealed weapons may be carried in the state went into effect Monday after a federal appeals court paused an earlier federal judge’s ruling against portions of the law issued in December. The administrative stay, issued Saturday by the United States Court of Appeals, means that for now, holders […]
Israeli opposition leader Jair Lapid has expressed his support for the Supreme Court after it overturned a key element of the government’s controversial judicial reform. “The Supreme Court’s decision closes a difficult year of strife that has torn us apart from within and led to the worst catastrophe in our history,” Lapid wrote on Monday […]
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson won reelection in 2022 in Wisconsin by just over 25,000 votes — the latest slim-majority victory in the state, which gave its 10 Electoral College votes to former President Donald Trump in 2016 with a victory of 22,000 votes and then flipped to President Joe Biden in 2020, who won the […]
Supreme court justice Clarence Thomas must recuse himself from ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility for the 2024 presidential election, a prominent Democrat said Sunday, warning that the leading Republican candidate is seeking to become a “political martyr” as he pursues a second presidency. Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin was speaking ahead of the nation’s highest court […]
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 […]
Thousands of people have rallied in Serbia’s capital, chanting “Thieves!” and accusing the populist authorities of President Aleksandar Vucic of orchestrating a fraud during a recent general election. The rally in central Belgrade capped nearly two weeks of street protests against reported widespread irregularities during the December 17 parliamentary and local elections which were also […]