The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified-documents case issued an unusual order late Monday regarding jury instructions at the end of the trial — even though she has not yet ruled on when the trial will be held, or a host of other issues. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon instructed lawyers to file proposed jury instructions by April 2 ...
Retired Supreme Court justice Stephen G. Breyer has never been one to shy from his criticism of textualism and originalism, the twin approaches to interpreting the Constitution strictly through the meaning of its text as it was understood at the time of writing. During his nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, Breyer took a more pragmatic approach, issuing opinions ...
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Monday refused to delay prison time for Peter Navarro, a former senior aide to President Donald Trump, as he appeals his conviction for refusing to testify before Congress about his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Navarro, a 74-year-old economist, is scheduled to report to federal prison in Miami before ...
A lawsuit filed Monday gives new details of a woman’s allegation against New York Mayor Eric Adams, accusing him of sexually assaulting her in 1993 while they both worked for the city. According to the lawsuit filed in New York County Supreme Court, the plaintiff had asked Adams (D), who at the time worked for the New York Transit Police ...
Former president Donald Trump again claimed that the Democratic Party “hates Israel” and that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats “hate” their religion, echoing previous attacks he has made about Jewish Democrats. “I think they hate Israel,” Trump said of Democrats. He then said that Democrats “see a lot of votes” among Americans who oppose the Israel-Gaza war. The comments ...
An attorney for former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne was detained at the federal courthouse in Washington on Monday after defending her decision to disseminate internal documents from Dominion Voting Systems in an effort to revive long-debunked claims about the 2020 election. Stefanie Lambert was facing a bench warrant from a state court in Michigan, where she is accused of taking ...
During a debate over an obscenity bill in the Nebraska legislature, Sen. Steve Halloran (R) read out loud a graphic passage describing sexual violence and inserted a colleague’s name into the text, sparking calls for his resignation from across the political spectrum. Before he started reading, he addressed “Senator Cavanaughs,” referring to Sens. Machaela (D) and John Cavanaugh (D), who ...
In his rally speech in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday, former president Donald Trump accused Democrats of telling lies about him. “Disinformation and misinformation, they’re masters at it,” he declared. “They lie, they cheat. These people, they lie, they cheat.” He then recounted the circumstances of his first impeachment with what can only be described as misinformation. Some of Trump’s language ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that comments from US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling for new elections in Israel were “totally inappropriate.” In a Senate speech that upended longstanding US policy, Schumer — who is the highest-ranking Jewish American in the US government and normally a staunch supporter of Israel — called Netanyahu a “major obstacle” to ...
Russia saw protests at polling stations on Sunday on the final day of voting in an election set to extend Russian President Vladmir Putin’s long hold on power. Lines at some polling stations in Russia grew suddenly at around 12pm local time Sunday, the hour at which supporters of the deceased opposition leader Alexey Navalny called on people to turn ...