Publicly and privately, some Democrats are panicking over President Biden’s reelection prospects in the wake of a special counsel report that describes Mr. Biden as too old and feeble-minded to be prosecuted for carelessly and illegally stashing classified records in his home and office. Former advisers for ex-Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have long […]
It would take a sweeping legal ruling for the Supreme Court to effectively kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado and elsewhere, say legal scholars who’ve analyzed the arguments set for Thursday in the case. “In order for Trump to lose, he has to lose bigly. Or is it big league? He […]
State election officials are begging the Supreme Court to be wary of allowing states to kick Donald Trump off the ballot this year, saying that granting them that power threatens to create an electoral arms race of retaliation. Missouri Secretary of State John R. “Jay” Ashcroft led 10 other secretaries in cautioning the justices to […]
A case with the potential to disrupt Donald Trump‘s drive to return to the White House is putting the Supreme Court uncomfortably at the center of the 2024 presidential campaign. In arguments Thursday, the justices will, for the first time, wrestle with a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former […]
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered state elections officials Friday to include U.S. Rep Dean Phillips on the state’s Democratic presidential primary ballot, finding that Democrats on a bipartisan presidential selection committee who left him off the ballot without a discussion should have at least talked about him. The unanimous ruling means President […]
The Supreme Court has settled a dispute between lawyers over who will argue in favor of disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the ballot because of the Constitution’s insurrection clause. The justices decided both the Colorado secretary of state and a group of voters would have time to make the case. The attorneys for Colorado’s […]
Federal prosecutors announced charges Thursday against a New Jersey political operative they say orchestrated a mail-in ballot fraud scheme in the 2022 election, casting ballots in the name of people who never actually voted. Authorities say Craig Callaway paid ballot harvesters to request ballots from election officials, purportedly on behalf of valid voters. Mr. Callaway […]
Lawyers have been arguing over whether Donald Trump should be on the ballot this year — and now they’re arguing over who should get to argue about it before the Supreme Court when the justices hear the case next week. The lawyers for Colorado’s secretary of state, who under state law would be the ones […]
U.S. Capitol Police present at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that ruling in favor of former President Donald Trump would bolster his claims that his challenging the 2020 election results was protected by the First Amendment. A group of current and former officers who have sued Mr. Trump […]
“I tried to teach him everything I know about winning elections. He is too old and incompetent to get it right.” Such were the sad words of Russian President Vladimir Putin on hearing that President Biden’s attempt to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in Illinois had failed. “It is pathetic. Maine and Colorado? […]
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