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Any election lawyers out there — is it legal for Canadians to cross the border and help drive people to the polls? I live close enough to help in Niagara Falls or Buffalo or Rochester areas and could likely corral a few friends.
by open sky
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 08:51 PM PDT
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Donald Trump's historic criminal trial started Monday. In the 24 hours leading up to his appearance in New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom, Trump has been thumbing away at his ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 11:15 AM PDT
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A lot has already been written here and elsewhere about the many red flags with Donald Trump’s bond for the $464 million judgment against him in the NY falsifying documents case. Like how the bonding company, Knight Specialty Insurance Company, doesn’t...
by davidkc
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 06:08 AM PDT
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Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, the right-wing fraudsters who orchestrated a robocall campaign targeting Black voters in seven states during the 2020 election, have agreed to pay $1.25 million in a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James....
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 06:32 AM PDT
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ProPublica has a new story out that raises a very serious question: Did Donald Trump’s lawyers lie to the the appellate court when they told the court that it was a “practical impossibility” to get a bond for the full amount of the lower court’s...
by davidkc
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on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 12:07 PM PDT
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House Democrats filed a bill Friday that would put Donald J. Trump’s name on a building. Congratulations!� Introduced by Gerry Connolly of Virginia, Jared Moskowitz of Florida, and John Garamendi ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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On Wednesday night, Seth Meyers took on Donald Trump’s tornado of a week. “Donald Trump is so desperate for cash as he drowns in legal bills that he's now selling Bibles while he simultaneously gets hit with a gag order in his criminal case for paying...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Elie Mystal, the justice correspondent for The Nation, joined CNN’s Laura Coates on Tuesday to discuss the gag order that a judge recently imposed on Donald Trump in advance of his hush-money ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 01:45 PM PDT
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Rudy Giuliani says his public plummet into disgrace and his support of Donald Trump’s attempts to overthrow the 2020 presidential election results “will help me in heaven.” During his “ ...
by Walter Einenkel
165 comments
on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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There are some facts and factors that are not well appreciated: The defendant has never won 47% of the vote. It is clear that when people think of the Republican Party, they think of the defendant. The Republican Party has fared very poorly with few...
by Dem
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 06:55 PM PDT
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett brought her ability to drop mics all over Republicans’ hypocrisies and failures to MSNBC on Sunday. The Democratic congresswoman was asked by host Ali Velshi about fallout from the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 07:30 AM PST
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On Wednesday, ABC News reported on texts House ethics probe investigators had discovered between Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida and an unnamed woman. Those texts purported to show the Florida congressman propositioning the woman to come on a three-day...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 10:02 AM PST
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A quick reminder up front: I’m not a lawyer. I have tried to avoid saying anything inaccurate in this diary, and it mostly deals with foundational principles about “how law works” rather than specifics, but don’t take anything here as more than a...
by TheSheeple
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 09:05 AM PST
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Steve Bannon is having a bad one. A recent filing by Bannon’s lawyers suggests the former top advisor to Donald Trump may have shot himself in the foot when he decided to not pay the nearly half a million dollars he owed his previous lawyer, Robert...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 02:18 PM PST
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Lord knows those Trump legal bills are piling up higher and higher. What’s a potential Fascist State to do? Florida Sen. Ilena Garcia proposed this interesting idea today: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Sen. Ilena Garcia has filed Senate Bill 1740, or the...
by PaulyPanic
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 01:35 PM PST
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Victor Shi and the great Jill Wine-Banks had Simon Rosenberg on for an interview after the Republican Party's Iowa Caucus yesterday. I am going to post the transcript right below. However, a quick summary is that the Republican Party is going to...
by Dem
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 08:16 PM PST
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This space appears each weekend to share news and opinion from Asheville and Western North Carolina . The floor is open for comment and discussion. Wishing all a good day from this beautiful part of the world. “Daily Kos fights for a progressive...
by randallt
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 10:02 AM PST
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For those of you who don’t spend inordinate amounts of time crocheting and watching various unsolved mysteries on YouTube, the name LegalEagle might be new. Congratulations, you’re one of today’s lucky ten thousand! LegalEagle is a YouTube channel run...
by Ninalyn
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on Sun Nov 26, 2023 at 10:48 PM PST
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The 2022 midterms shed light on the 2024 presidential election and elections for seats in Congress. Prior to the 2022 midterms, President Biden's approval ratings had dipped to 39 % and the title of the link said: . Biden approval dips to 39% as...
by Dem
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on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 01:02 PM PST
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The Hill has never had any real credibility, but they threw away any pretend credibility they had when they came up with the title that Democrats make Mike Johnson their new Boogeyman . There is no doubt that this is an attempt to deny that Johnson is...
by Dem
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on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 03:33 PM PDT
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