Новости за 29.12.2023

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman Friday scoffed at the latest argument against banning Donald Trump from presidential ballots in Colorado and Maine.

When former President Donald Trump makes a campaign appearance — whether its at fairgrounds in South Carolina or an Iowa fraternity house — along comes a rowdy crowd of thousands of supporters in bedazzled MAGA hats and Trump mugshot T-shirts shouting “U-S-A” chants.

The Missouri school board that tried to pull Black history courses was defeated this week by diversity advocates who say the battle has only just begun, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday.

A Long Island teacher says he was fired from his job at a Catholic school for being gay.

What do you call 91 criminal charges in four separate court cases, a $250 million civil fraud trial, a pending $10 million civil defamation lawsuit and presidential ballot-blocking litigation filed in 32 states across the U.S.?

Now that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request by Donald Trump to delay his defamation civil suit trial filed by E. Jean Carroll, the trial is set to begin in just over two weeks — and the former president is expected to lose and hand over millions more to the New York City writer.

A statement from Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on X expressing outrage that Maine's secretary of state has banished Donald Trump from the 2024 election ballot was not well received from critics — who noted her history of normally straddling meaningful controversies.

Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen mistakenly gave lawyers fake legal citations generated by artificial intelligence, the New York Times reported Friday.

Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio became only the second Republican to ever veto a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors. He made his decision after traveling to children's hospitals and talking to families that would be affected by the bill.

Newly revealed recordings of right-wing attorney Kenneth Chesebro describing the last-minute scramble to block certification of President Joe Biden's election win provides special counsel Jack Smith with powerful new evidence.

Hunter Biden’s attorney said Friday that Donald Trump will likely be forced to pay a huge amount of money to E. Jean Carroll — even more than the $5 million he's already been ordered to pay.

The Biden camp is pushing an "upbeat narrative" that expects voters will see the threat Donald Trump poses and realize the 2024 election will be a choice between sanity and erraticism. But, according to NBC News' Eamon Javers and Peter Nicholas, there are plenty of "twists" that could upend that strategy.

With the Iowa caucus beginning in just over two weeks and the New Hampshire primary hot on its heels, Gov. Ron DeSantis' once-promising bid to be the Republican Party's 2024 presidential bid seems to be already over.

There are few things more peaceful and relaxing than a night under the stars. Through the holidays, many people head away from the bright city lights to go camping. They revel in the dark skies, spangled with myriad stars.

Lauren Boebert's claim that her decision to abandon her Colorado congressional district to run in a completely different one was "the right move for me personally" was destroyed by a Denver-based columnist.

The U.S. Supreme Court has leaned conservative for decades, but a key difference between the High Court of the 1990s and the High Court of 2023 is the strong influence of social conservatives. Former Justice Anthony Kennedy and the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor were conservative Ronald Reagan appointees but often sided with liberals when it came to abortion and gay rights; today's Supreme Court is much more sympathetic to the religious right.

A federal appeals court has ruled against Donald Trump for a second time this month in a lawsuit filed by police officers over the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Donald Trump's own words captured on video helped get him disqualified from the 2024 primary ballot in Maine, according to a legal expert.

As part of his plea deal with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, former Donald Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro must come clean about his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results — including the fake electors scheme.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance was asked about a decision on Thursday by Maine's secretary of state to bar Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot and how the Supreme Court will react to it.

Donald Trump has recently revived long-standing comparisons to Adolf Hitler, but a columnist hit him Friday for being more like a "crybaby conqueror" — though his fanatical supporters seem happy to embrace either.

The U.S. Supreme Court has leaned conservative for decades, but a key difference between the High Court of the 1990s and the High Court of 2023 is the strong influence of social conservatives. Former Justice Anthony Kennedy and the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor were conservative Ronald Reagan appointees but often sided with liberals when it came to abortion and gay rights; today's Supreme Court is much more sympathetic to the religious right.

Rep. Lauren Boebert's decision to jump to a neighboring district in her bid for a third term in Congress is leaving her fellow Republicans with a "mess" to clean up in her old district — which was solidly conservative until she came along.

Donald Trump's legal team has been attempting to stall various legal proceedings against him, but an expert said the former president would be wise to allow one of them to proceed.

Appearing on CNN the morning after the Maine secretary of state booted Donald Trump off of the state's ballot for leading an insurrection on Jan. 6, a former Republican state senator who helped lead the effort applauded her work — and then had a few words to say about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni.