Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., attempted to force a vote Wednesday evening on a Supreme Court ethics bill backed by Democrats amid recent scrutiny of Justice Samuel Alito and renewed calls for the conservative justice to recuse from former President Trump’s immunity case. Durbin led fellow Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Peter …
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A quickie guilty verdict in Delaware: How Hunter Biden botched his defense
Of course Hunter Biden was guilty. It only took a jury in Delaware, where the family name is golden, three hours to figure that out. His defense was quite frankly absurd. Biden was a drug addict – he helpfully wrote and recorded a book about it – then his lawyer argued he wasn’t using drugs on the day, week or …
Read More »‘Loose cannon’: Senate Dem escalates attack on Justice Alito after secret recording
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., elevated his criticism of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday night following the publication of secretly taken recordings in which Alito noted that “there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised” while discussing ideological disagreements. “Alito is becoming a loose cannon turned on the Court itself,” Blumenthal said of Alito’s remarks. “He …
Read More »Senate Dem doubles down on old Alito complaint as SCOTUS nears Trump immunity ruling
A conservative Supreme Court justice is being accused of impropriety by a Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee member ahead of a long-anticipated and pivotal ruling on former President Trump’s immunity claim. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has sent a new letter to Justice Samuel Alito, questioning him over an interview he did last year that “raised several problems.” “In that interview, you opined …
Read More »Should Trump have confidence in his lawyers? Legal experts weigh in
As attorneys for former President Donald Trump work behind the scenes on an appeal following his conviction in the New York v. Trump trial, legal observers speculated to Fox News Digital about whether the presumptive Republican nominee is confident in his legal team ahead of his sentencing hearing – scheduled just four days before the Republican National Convention. While under …
Read More »Kansas City police funding amendment to make August appearance on Missouri ballot
Missouri voters in August will weigh in on a constitutional amendment requiring Kansas City to spend more money on police, the state Supreme Court ordered Tuesday. CITY OF KANSAS CITY HAS ‘SEPARATED’ FROM EMPLOYEE WHO DOXXED HARRISON BUTKER FOLLOWING SPEECH, MAYOR SAYS The high court changed the date when the ballot measure will appear from November to Aug. 6, the …
Read More »Trump guilty verdict reveals a Democrat Party that will do almost anything to win
Smiling prosecutors and giddy media got what they wanted this week as former President Donald Trump was convicted on 34 counts in a patently obvious show trial overseen by an overtly conflicted corrupt judge. But as predicted, the verdict is not just lighting a fire but spreading one – not just with the base.Among independents and moderates whose faith in …
Read More »Kansas Constitution doesn't include right to vote: state high court majority
The Kansas Supreme Court offered a mixed bag in a ruling Friday that combined several challenges to a 2021 election law, siding with state officials on one provision, reviving challenges to others and offering the possibility that at least one will be halted before this year’s general election. But it was the ballot signature verification measure’s majority opinion — which …
Read More »Does the guilty verdict destroy Trump or make him even stronger?
The verdict heard round the world will throw a lightning bolt into our politics as those on the left cheer and those on the right rally and coalesce even more around former President Donald Trump. The question now is this: does the verdict weaken Trump or make him even stronger? The early returns seem to indicate that rather than reveal …
Read More »From confusing instructions to misleading summations, the Trump trial now in jury’s hands
The sound of laughter was revealing. Inside the media room at the hush money trial, say those who were there, many of the reporters openly chuckled when the prosecutor took jabs at Donald Trump. They found that quite amusing. For all the craziness surrounding the first criminal trial of a former president, the closing arguments – and the judge’s confusing …
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