Amanda Becker Originally published by The 19th When the U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate back in Washington this week, both chambers will be racing to complete the annual government-funding process and avoid a shutdown at the end of September. Among the major sticking points are proposals offered by …
Read More »With Funds Opposed by GOP, IRS to Target Ultrawealthy Tax Delinquents
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Friday won praise from congressional Democrats and progressive groups for announcing “a sweeping, historic effort to restore fairness in tax compliance by shifting more attention onto high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations, and promoters abusing the nation’s tax laws.” The IRS effort is enabled by …
Read More »Trump Rally Highlights Republican Division With Booing Of Absent Thune, Rounds, Johnson
Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight A Friday event intended to rally the South Dakota Republican Party around Donald Trump’s visit to the state instead showcased division at the party’s highest levels. The state’s all-Republican, three-member congressional delegation — Sens. John Thune and Mike Rounds, and Rep. Dusty Johnson — did …
Read More »Judge Rejects Meadows’ Bid To Move Georgia 2020 Election Racketeering Case To Federal Court
Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows suffered a legal setback Friday afternoon when a federal judge ordered that his Fulton County election interference case remain in state court. U.S. District Court Steve Jones’ decision to reject Meadows’ attempt to thwart the Fulton …
Read More »Justice Department Asks Supreme Court To Take Up Abortion Pill Case
Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday asked the Supreme Court to decide whether the abortion pill should remain on the market after two lower courts issued differing opinions about its use. The case, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will …
Read More »Fulton Grand Jury Recommended Charges Against Senator Graham; Former Senators Perdue, and Loeffler
A special grand jury in Georgia, tasked with investigating efforts to undermine the 2020 election, recommended criminal indictments for several allies of Donald Trump, including Senator Lindsey Graham, who had not been charged by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The report from this special grand jury, which was filed …
Read More »Ex-Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Guilty of Contempt of Congress for Defying Jan. 6 Panel
A federal jury on Thursday found Peter Navarro, who served as a trade adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, guilty of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the congressional panel that probed the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Despite a February 2022 subpoena from the House Select Committee …
Read More »Gov. DeSantis Urges Americans To Defy Public-Health Guidance; Attacks Trump on COVID
Michael Moline, Florida Phoenix Gov. Ron DeSantis, back in Florida amid his presidential campaign, urged Americans to defy any new federal public health guidance to wear masks, take vaccines, or engage in social distancing in light of an upsurge in COVID cases and emergence of a new viral variant. The …
Read More »GOP Lawmakers Move to Block Biden’s Helping Hand to Student Loan Borrowers
Julia Conley, Common Dreams Just as the Biden administration announced this week that 4 million people have enrolled in its new income-driven repayment plan for student loan borrowers just two weeks after it was launched, Republican lawmakers in Congress announced plans to rip the debt relief away from Americans—saddling them …
Read More »Fulton County DA’s Office Says Election Interference RICO Trial Would Take 4 Months
Stephen Fowler, GPB News The Fulton County District Attorney’s office says it would take an estimated four months and 150 witnesses to present its case against 19 people accused of violating the state’s anti-racketeering law in a failed effort to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential results. Special prosecutor Nathan Wade gave …
Read More »Florida Supreme Court Set To Decide Future Of Abortion Rights In State
Michael Moline, Florida Phoenix The Florida Supreme Court is bracing for a crowd during oral arguments on Friday over the future of abortion rights in the state, as organizations on both sides of that issue planned to wave their flags in the state capital and the whole country will be …
Read More »Judge Orders Texas to Remove Buoy ‘Death Traps’ From Rio Grande
Migrant rights groups and Texas Democrats on Wednesday welcomed a federal judge’s order that the state remove from the Rio Grande about 1,000 feet of orange buoys fastened together with metal cables and anchored with concrete blocks. The federal Department of Justice sued Texas and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over …
Read More »Lawsuit Seeks To Bar Trump From Presidential Ballot In Colorado
Quentin Young, Colorado Newsline A lawsuit filed in Colorado seeks to bar former President Donald Trump from appearing as a 2024 presidential candidate on ballots in the state. The suit was filed by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on behalf of six Colorado voters, who …
Read More »Navy Secretary Says Tuberville’s Military Hold Is ‘aiding and abetting communists’
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro strongly criticized Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) for his ongoing hold on military promotions, accusing the senator of undermining American military readiness. Del Toro, who was born in Cuba, expressed disbelief that a U.S. senator would obstruct military promotions, likening it to aiding autocratic …
Read More »Montana Attorney General Facing 41 Counts Of Professional Misconduct
Keila Szpaller, Daily Montanan Attorney General Austin Knudsen is facing 41 counts of professional misconduct with a special counsel alleging he defied and repeatedly sought to undermine the Montana Supreme Court, contrary to his ethical obligations as a lawyer and to the detriment of justice. “Knudsen and lawyers under his …
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