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Trump’s Judge In Election Case Blasts ‘Hostage’ Term For Jan. 6 Defendants
11Apr By adminNo Comments
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Trump’s Judge In Election Case Blasts ‘Hostage’ Term For Jan. 6 Defendants

WASHINGTON — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case rejected the notion Wednesday that jailed defendants charged with some of the most violent crimes of the U.S. Capitol riot are “hostages” — a label Trump and his allies have frequently used to describe the prisoners.U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the Capitol riot defendants who remain jailed in Washington, D.C., don’t deserve to be called hostages or heroes for their actions during the mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021.“They’re being kept there because they are dangerous people,” Chutkan said during a sentencing hearing for Antony Vo, a man convicted of storming the Capitol with his mother.During his trial, Vo attended a nightly vigil that supporters of Jan. 6 riot defendants hold outside the W...
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Watching Rudy Giuliani Self-Destruct at a Defamation Trial in Washington
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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Watching Rudy Giuliani Self-Destruct at a Defamation Trial in Washington

When Rudy Giuliani finally arrived at Elijah Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse, in Washington, D.C., on Monday—stiff-legged, about ten minutes late, unapologetic—his attorney, a former U.S. Army Ranger named Joseph Sibley, tucked him into the large and lonely defense table where the two of them sat, alone, with their giant bottles of water. Sibley had drained much of his while waiting. The former mayor of New York began pulling items out of an overstuffed black backpack that looked like something a sixth grader might bring to school. He’d arrived for the most recent phase in a defamation suit brought by two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, whose backs remained turned to him throughout the day.Beginning on December 3, 2020, during a hearing before the Ge...
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How Did Our Democracy Get So Fragile?
6Dec By adminNo Comments
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How Did Our Democracy Get So Fragile?

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter.We’re in the midst of another election season, and yet again American democracy hangs in the balance, with a leading Presidential candidate who has threatened to suspend parts of the Constitution. How did the foundations of our political system become so shaky? Jelani Cobb, the dean of the journalism school at Columbia University; Evan Osnos, a Washington correspondent for The New Yorker; and the best-selling author and historian Jill Lepore joined The New Yorker’s Michael Luo for a discussion of that very existential question during the most recent New Yorker Festival. “It’s not that complicated,” from Cobb’s perspective, “if we went all the way back to ...
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Colorado Official Slams Judge’s ‘Very Troubling’ Trump Insurrection Case Ruling
19Nov By adminNo Comments
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Colorado Official Slams Judge’s ‘Very Troubling’ Trump Insurrection Case Ruling

Griswold – in an interview with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Saturday – chimed in on Judge Sarah B. Wallace’s decision that found Trump engaged in insurrection but rejected an attempt to prevent his name from appearing on the state’s ballot.The decision arrived after a lawsuit from D.C.-based watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington argued that the former president’s actions linked to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, violated a Civil War-era Constitutional amendment barring people from holding office who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution.Griswold, in her discussion with Velshi, said the ruling was “surprising.”“The idea that any official who would engage in insurrection would be barred from taking office except the presidency is incredibly surprising...
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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Tears Apart Trump Attorney’s False Jan. 6 Claim
18Nov By adminNo Comments
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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Tears Apart Trump Attorney’s False Jan. 6 Claim

Kaitlan Collins wasn’t having it with Trump attorney Scott Gessler after he falsely claimed that the former president attempted to prevent the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack by authorizing the National Guard to the Capitol that day.The CNN anchor, on Friday, brought up the Colorado judge who found that Trump engaged in insurrection but rejected an attempt to bar him from the state’s primary ballot in 2024.Collins asked Gessler, former Colorado Secretary of State, if he disputed anything the judge laid out about Trump’s behavior on the day of the insurrection before Gessler replied with the evidence-free claim.“Absolutely. He did not act with intent or specific intent at all. We thought the evidence was very clear, that he made efforts to ensure he authorized the National Guard, to make sure t...
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Donald Trump Blames Nancy Pelosi For Jan. 6 Insurrection
18Sep By adminNo Comments
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Donald Trump Blames Nancy Pelosi For Jan. 6 Insurrection

Donald Trump offered up a strange scapegoat for the Jan. 6 insurrection in a new interview.The former president accused former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of allowing mobs of violent Trump supporters to overtake the U.S. Capitol by allegedly turning down his offer to activate the National Guard.Thousands of people descended on Capitol Hill to try and stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021, following Trump’s repeated lies about a stolen election.A bipartisan Senate report released last June connected seven deaths to that day’s violence, and late last year, the House January 6 committee accused Trump of engaging in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the results of the 2020 election.Rioters personally targeted Pelosi on Jan. 6. People stalked the...
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Special Counsel Jack Smith Seeks Gag Order On Trump
16Sep By adminNo Comments
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Special Counsel Jack Smith Seeks Gag Order On Trump

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith is asking the federal judge presiding over Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case to stop the former president from making inflammatory statements that he said are endangering witnesses and will make finding a fair jury difficult.“The defendant has repeatedly and widely disseminated public statements attacking the citizens of the District of Columbia, the court, prosecutors, and prospective witnesses,” Smith wrote in a Friday filing to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. “The defendant knows that when he publicly attacks individuals and institutions, he inspires others to perpetrate threats and harassment against his targets.”Trump responded to the request barely an hour after it was posted by the court with a statement similar to the ones Smith spoke of in his ...
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Trump’s 2020 Trial Is Set to Dominate the 2024 Primary Season
28Aug By adminNo Comments
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Trump’s 2020 Trial Is Set to Dominate the 2024 Primary Season

If there were any remaining doubt that the 2024 election is going to be a political contest like no other, it was removed on Monday, when a federal judge set a trial date for Donald Trump’s case involving charges of conspiring to overturn the result of the 2020 election: March 4, 2024. During a hearing at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected pleas by Trump’s lawyers to delay the trial until after the election. “Setting a trial date does not depend and should not depend on the defendant’s personal or professional obligations,” Judge Chutkan said. “Mr. Trump, like any defendant, will have to make the trial date work regardless of his schedule.”Government lawyers representing Jack Smith, the special counsel, had requested a trial date in Jan...
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