Poli Alert Politics & Civics

Jacob Fischler, Georgia Recorder Former President Donald Trump’s claim that he would be arrested Tuesday had not materialized by early evening on the East Coast, but U.S. House Republicans harshly criticized any such move as an abuse of prosecutorial authority. In an all-caps post to his social media site, Truth …

Anna Gustafson, Michigan Advance Nearly a decade after the water crisis began to devastate Flint in 2014, leaving thousands of people to drink lead-contaminated water in the Black-majority city, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday the state’s historic Flint water settlement totaling about $626.25 million has been formally approved. …

Stephen Fowler, GPB News Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys filed a motion Monday seeking to essentially shut down prosecutors’ ability to issue indictments based on a special purpose grand jury investigation into the failed attempt to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election. In a 51-page filing that includes more than 430 pages …

Jennifer Shutt, Florida Phoenix The U.S. director of national intelligence has three months to declassify information on potential links between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19, after President Joe Biden signed legislation Monday. The bill was one of the first Biden has signed since a 118th …

Jennifer Shutt, Pennsylvania Capital-Star Federal departments and agencies say U.S. House Republicans’ plans to cut federal spending would result in reductions to key programs like food aid, education assistance and wildfire management. The series of letters from across the federal government released Monday detail exactly how plans to cut at …

Commentary Diane Roberts, Florida Phoenix Why would Ron DeSantis rather destroy Florida universities than allow our students encounter ideas he doesn’t like? What’s he so afraid of? Is it that the preservation of slavery was indeed one important factor in getting the white South to support the American Revolution? That …

Kenny Stancil Sen. Elizabeth Warren this weekend called on federal officials to investigate the causes of recent bank failures and urged President Joe Biden to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom she has criticized for intensifying financial deregulation and imposing job- and wage-destroying interest rate hikes. Asked on Sunday …

Casey Quinlan, Nevada Current Financial regulators, policymakers, and bank executives spent last week trying to abate fears that a banking crisis will spread across the U.S. financial system. On Friday, President Joe Biden released a statement calling on Congress to take action to make it easier for regulators to hold …

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Saturday that former President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine his prosecutorial authority won’t be tolerated. In a memo to colleagues, Bragg wrote that “we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York.” “Our law enforcement …

Barbara Rodriguez Originally published by The 19th Vice President Kamala Harris’ Thursday trip to Iowa to discuss abortion rights was so last-minute that Ruth Ann Gaines, a longtime Democratic state representative, got word about it only a few days ago. On Thursday, Gaines rushed to join other local leaders at …

Days after U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren expressed outrage over the bonuses that Silicon Valley Bank executives were handing out hours before the bank failed, President Joe Biden on Friday called on Congress to strengthen regulatory powers to hold officials at failed banks accountable. The president said in a statement that …

V. Gerard (Jerry) Comizio, American University When Silicon Valley and Signature banks failed in early March 2023, government regulators rushed in to guarantee deposits and protect bank customers. Under current banking regulations, though, there was no obligation for the government to step in. Now, both Democratic and Republican politicians are …

Former President Donald Trump has said in a social media post that he will be arrested on Tuesday, as a New York prosecutor eyes charges in a case examining hush money paid to women who alleged sexual encounters with him. Trump said in a post on his Truth Social network …

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) have introduced a bill to repeal part of a Trump-era bank regulation rollback law in the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. The bill, called the Secure Viable Banking Act, would put banks with at least $50 billion in …

The Biden administration wants TikTok’s Chinese parent company to divest itself of the popular social media platform, or it could face a possible nationwide ban, TikTok confirmed to news outlets this week. The Wall Street Journal said the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) had recently made the divestment …