Новости за 18.09.2023

The trial judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's criminal case in Manhattan will not rule that attorney Joe Tacopina has a conflict of interest in representing him, reported the New York Law Journal on Monday.

A former aide to Donald Trump told federal investigators that the former president repeatedly wrote to-do lists on the backs of White House documents marked classified, ABC News reported.

Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to attack the lawsuit by New York Attorney General Letitia James. Trump is headed to court this week to fight a suit alleging he grossly inflated his wealth to score loans, tax breaks, insurance deals and to promote himself and his name.

Donald Trump's co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro keeps digging himself into a deeper legal hole in the Georgia election case, former impeachment lawyer and ethics czar Norm Eisen explained.

If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be term limited out of his current role at the end of 2026, unless he manages to turn around his fortunes in the presidential race and moves to the White House before that. And there's one figure who appears ready to run to succeed him, reported NBC News on Monday: far-right Congressman Matt Gaetz.

Donald Trump is urging Republicans to remove President Joe Biden from office by invoking the 25th Amendment, which in part details the process for removing and replacing a sitting U.S. President by his own Vice President and his own Cabinet, not Congress.

An Oct. 30 hearing has been set to decide if the 14th Amendment can be used to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado.

Christian convention The Texas Youth Summit has removed Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert from its list of speakers in the wake of a scandal involving security footage from a Denver theater apparently showing her engaged in lewd conduct with a male companion, The Daily Mail reported.

Exposure to a range of widely used chemicals may significantly increase the odds of certain hormonally driven cancers in women, according to U.S. government-funded research published Monday.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) could cost Republicans control of the U.S. House of Representatives after a scandal over her behavior at a "Beetlejuice" performance.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will bring the short-term stopgap government spending measure for a vote on the floor on Thursday, he said on Monday. (Reporting by David Morgan and Katharine Jackson; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

The fallout from Rep. Lauren Boebert's humiliating ouster from a Denver theater after she aggravated fellow playgoers by vaping, dancing in her seat, taking flash pictures and engaging in mutual groping with her date may not be over.

According to a report from Newsweek, the normally attention-seeking Colorado Republican may have run afoul of a Colorado ordinance designed to clamp down on public lewdness that, if taken to the extreme, is punishable by fines and up to six months in prison – along with being classified as a sex offender.

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was asked by a Georgia prosecutor last month if he had “any role” in coordinating the bogus fake electors scheme that was designed to keep Donald Trump in power in the wake the 2020 election, The New York Times reported.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), one of the hardline congressional Republicans who has vowed to vote against a continuing resolution aimed at averting a government shutdown, released his list of demands for what he needs before getting on board with keeping the federal government open.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy its being attacked by far-right House Republicans and being mocked as their "victim" as he openly admits to the press that he doesn't "quite know what" they want just days before what appears to be an increasingly-likely federal government shutdown that will lay at the feet of his members including U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

When Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) announced that he won't be seeking reelection in 2024, Never Trump conservatives were quick to lament his departure. Romney, they stressed, has been a voice of moderation who isn't afraid to stand up to former President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump claimed credit for the impeachment acquittal of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Monday.

Reacting to an attempt by former DOJ official Jeff Clark to get racketeering charges against him moved to a federal court or dismissed, an MSNBC legal analyst shot down his prospects – and laughed at the fact the attorney seems to think a judge would agree with him.

Speaking with MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart, Palm Beach State Attorney Dave Aronberg pegged Clark's odds at winning his appeal at a perfectly round "0.0 percent."

WASHINGTON — Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) recently purchased up to $250,000 worth of stock in telecommunications technology company Qualcomm Inc., a federal defense contractor, while serving on the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and actively blocking hundreds of military nominations and promotions, new congressional financial disclosures indicate.

Former President Donald Trump could "lose the popular vote, lose the electoral college, lose all his legal cases and still end up president of the United States in an entirely legal manner" in 2024, The Guardian’s Stephen Marche warns in a Monday opinion column. "It's called a contingent election."

A group of California Democratic lawmakers have sent a letter to the state's attorney general arguing that Donald Trump should be booted from the ballot because he incited the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Politico reported.

Donald Trump dumped on the prisoner exchange agreement brokered by the Biden administration that saw five Americans wrongfully imprisoned in Iran freed Monday.

It's looking more and more likely that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will have to face a motion to vacate in the coming weeks as rebellious Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) plot to oust him.

Donald Trump is being denounced for his antisemitic message attacking "liberal Jews who voted to destroy America" by not voting for him, at the start of Rosh Hashanah, the celebration of the Jewish New Year. Republicans have remained largely silent as "liberal Jews" trends on social media. The ex-president's remarks came just days after President Joe Biden warned that antisemitism has "risen to record levels."

Climate advocates expressed hope Monday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom would help usher in a new era of accountability for corporate polluters nationwide after he confirmed plans to sign legislation forcing companies to publicly disclose their climate-related risks and more complete accounting of their total emissions.