Justice Department officials plan to pursue the criminal cases against Donald Trump past Election Day even if he wins, under the belief that department rules against charging or prosecuting a sitting president would not kick in until Inauguration Day in January, according to people familiar with the discussions. That approach may become more consequential given this week’s Supreme Court ruling ...
Former president Barack Obama has privately told allies who have reached out to him that President Biden’s already-tough path to reelection grew more challenging after his shaky debate performance on Thursday — a harsher assessment of the presidential race than his public comments, according to several people familiar with his remarks. Obama separately spoke directly with Biden by phone after ...
A growing number of Democrats on Tuesday began publicly questioning President Biden’s performance in last week’s debate, calling on him to withdraw from the race, and contemplating possible successors, as the fallout spread from what increasingly appears to be a pivotal moment in the 2024 campaign. Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas became the first sitting Democratic member of Congress to ...
As panic and confusion over President Biden’s faltering debate performance swept the ranks of Democratic lawmakers late last week, Sen. Joe Manchin III informed a few key allies that he would soon break with Biden in an interview on a Sunday news show, a high-profile defection that would underscore the president’s weakness. Democrats feared Manchin — a moderate West Virginia ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was dismissive of concerns about the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity when the subject came up in a Fox News interview on Monday. “There’s all sorts of hyperbole tonight and just these fantastical — these hypotheticals they have made up, future presidents are going to turn into assassins and all the rest,” Johnson said ...
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and personal attorney to Donald Trump, was disbarred Tuesday in New York over his false statements about the 2020 election. “The seriousness of respondent’s misconduct cannot be overstated,” a state appeals court said in a ruling, adding that Giuliani “baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country’s electoral process.” Giuliani was already ...
It has been less than a week since President Biden walked out onto the stage of the first presidential debate in Atlanta and upended his political legacy. Biden’s performance Thursday reinforced the biggest concern voters have expressed about his candidacy: his age. He moved slowly, spoke softly and had trouble articulating his thoughts. More than once he lost his train ...
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would review a Texas law restricting minors’ access to internet pornography, one of a handful of cases it agreed to accept next term that are focused on First Amendment rights; a Trump-era criminal justice law and the regulatory power of federal agencies. The court also declined to hear challenges to Illinois gun laws ...
David Ellison’s Skydance has reached a preliminary deal with Shari Redstone’s National Amusements to merge with Paramount, according to two people familiar with the matter, resurrecting a deal which failed just weeks earlier. Controlling shareholder National Amusements has referred the deal to the Paramount special committee, according to people familiar with the matter. Paramount’s special committee is currently reviewing and voting on the deal, according to ...
A bitcoin exchange that collapsed 10 years ago after being hacked is set to return billions of dollars’ worth of the token to users — and it has investors worried. In a few days, bankrupt Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox will begin paying back thousands of users almost $9 billion worth of tokens. The platform went under in 2014 following a series of ...