Emergency declarations dating back to the Carter years remain on the books. With little oversight, lawmakers worry presidents could claim unchecked authoritarian powers under the guise of a national crisis.
May 14, 2024 02:39 PM
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May 14, 2024 01:13 PM
A New York appeals court has denied the former president’s latest attempt to overturn his gag order in his criminal hush money trial: “We find that Justice Merchan properly weighed petitioner’s First Amendment Rights against the court’s historical commitment to ensuring the fair administration of justice in criminal cases, and the right of persons related or tangentially related to the criminal proceedings from being free from threats, intimidation, harassment, and harm,” the order said.
May 14, 2024 01:13 PM
May 14, 2024 10:03 AM
The Biden administration has announced new tariffs on China’s electric vehicles, solar cells, steel, aluminum, syringes and needles. The tariff rate on electric vehicles will increase from 25% to 100% in 2024, per the White House. “China is simply too big to play by its own rules,” Lael Brainard, White House National Economic Council director, told reporters.
May 14, 2024 10:03 AM
May 14, 2024 09:53 AM
Trump loyalists are flocking to support the former president during his criminal trial. It’s the second day of Michael Cohen’s testimony, and House Speaker Mike Johnson has joined Trump’s entourage. Also in attendance: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Reps. Byron Donalds and Cory Mills, and Eric Trump and Lara Trump.
May 14, 2024 09:53 AM
May 13, 2024 04:51 PM
Republican Sens. J.D. Vance and Tommy Tuberville joined Donald Trump in court Monday, as prosecutors questioned star witness Michael Cohen. Trump’s entourage also included Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York and state Attorneys General Steve Marshall of Alabama and Brenna Bird of Iowa.
May 13, 2024 04:51 PM
May 13, 2024 10:22 AM
Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen took the stand Monday pursuant to a subpoena. Cohen spent his early testimony explaining a strong working relationship with Trump, saying he spoke with him multiple times every day. Cohen called Trump a “micromanager” and said he would sometimes lie for him, per CNN.
May 13, 2024 10:22 AM
May 10, 2024 01:13 PM
A federal appeals court has upheld ex—Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s contempt-of-Congress conviction. Bannon was found guilty of failing to comply with the House January 6 committee’s subpoena. The appeals court also upheld Bannon’s four-month federal prison sentence. Bannon was given time to appeal the ruling to the full DC-based appeals court.
May 10, 2024 01:13 PM
May 09, 2024 01:55 PM
Two political strategists are cooperating with the Justice Department in its case against Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar and have agreed to plead guilty to charges that they conspired with the lawmaker to launder more than $200,000 in bribes. Per the San Antonio Express-News, the two middlemen, Cuellar’s former campaign manager Colin Strother and political consultant Florencio “Lencho” Rendon, agreed to plea deals in March.
May 09, 2024 01:55 PM
May 09, 2024 10:54 AM
Trump lawyer Susan Necheles took the lead questioning Daniels the day after her graphically detailed witness testimony. Necheles’s questions were focused on Daniels income, including the money she brought in from a book contract, her role in a documentary, a tour of strip clubs and merchandise like the “Stormy, Saint of Indictments candle.”
May 09, 2024 10:54 AM
May 08, 2024 12:02 PM
Kahane was charged with second-degree assault with intent to cause physical injury with a weapon after allegedly ramming his car into a pro-Palestinian protester who was demonstrating outside a Columbia University trustee’s home. Two of the demonstrators were also arrested and charged with misdemeanors.
May 08, 2024 12:02 PM
May 08, 2024 10:36 AM
Georgia’s state Court of Appeals said it would consider a challenge to the decision to not to disqualify Fani Willis as the district attorney overseeing his elections case in the state. Trump’s legal team, which has accused Willis of “misconduct” for her relationship with the former special prosecutor on the case, has 10 days to file a notice of appeal.
May 08, 2024 10:36 AM
May 07, 2024 05:24 PM
The case over former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is on hold after Judge Aileen Cannon canceled an upcoming trial date. She did not set a new trial date in the order on Tuesday, saying there are issues over classified evidence.
May 07, 2024 05:24 PM
May 07, 2024 02:53 PM
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team asked for a mistrial on Tuesday based on Stormy Daniels’ testimony, some of which an attorney said had “nothing to do with this case and is extremely prejudicial.” Judge Juan Merchan denied the request.
May 07, 2024 02:53 PM
May 07, 2024 02:45 PM
President Joe Biden said Tuesday there has been a “ferocious surge of antisemitism” since the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. “Too many [are] people denying, downplaying, rationalizing, ignoring the horrors of the Holocaust and Oct. 7,” he said in the speech.
May 07, 2024 02:45 PM
May 07, 2024 12:53 PM
TikTok filed a suit Tuesday against the federal government over the recently passed law meant to force its parent company, ByteDance, to sell. The suit from TikTok and ByteDance alleges the law is “obviously unconstitutional.”
May 07, 2024 12:53 PM
May 07, 2024 09:18 AM
Stormy Daniels, the blockbuster witness in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, is likely to take the stand Tuesday, according to her attorney. Trump complained in a now-deleted Truth Social post about the upcoming testimony: “I have just recently been told who the witness is today. This is unprecedented, no time for lawyers to prepare.”
May 07, 2024 09:18 AM
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Mar 20, 2024
Ken Buck Gets a Parting Kick Out the Door From the Freedom Caucus
It’s Rep. Ken Buck’s last week in Congress, but that didn’t stop the Freedom Caucus from voting the longtime Colorado Republican member out of its group last night. Per The Hill, Buck was voted out for breaking with fellow conservatives and “leaving the conference hanging with a historically narrow margin.”
