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Courthouse News reports: A Colorado judge on Wednesday handed a 12-year prison sentence to a man found guilty of threatening and harassing judges in the state. Using legal tactics popularized by the sovereign citizen movement, Brett Nelson, 45, filed fraudulent motions for default judgments and powers of attorney against court staff and judges overseeing criminal and domestic cases where he …

NBC News reports: A former Republican candidate who lost his race for mayor in Connecticut last year was sentenced Wednesday to 10 days of incarceration for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Gino DiGiovanni Jr. admitted he entered the Capitol after he was confronted by NBC Connecticut in October 2022 after he was identified by …

Raw Story reports: “As I noted in my last post, one Congressman, or even a more united House of Representatives, can only do so much,” wrote Gaetz in an email to constituents. “Congress cannot issue pardons to January 6th defendants, for example. The most critical thing for these defendants we can do is to re-elect Donald Trump in 2024: he …

CNN reports: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer was eager to take the reins of a high-stakes investigation into President Joe Biden and his family, seen as central to the House Republican agenda – a coveted perch that brought the added benefit of elevating his national profile. But after 15 months of coming up short in proving some of his …

NBC News reports: TikTok CEO Shou Chew said Wednesday that the company would go to court to try to remain online in the United States. In a video posted on the app, Chew denounced a potential ban signed into law by President Joe Biden. The law has a built-in delay of nine months, giving TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, a …

USA Today reports: Ohio lawmakers voted Wednesday to criminalize marital rape in all situations, ending a years-long fight over a law that critics cast as archaic and harmful to survivors. The Ohio Senate unanimously passed legislation which eliminates a measure that protects spouses from prosecution against rape, unless the perpetrator used force or the couple lives in separate homes. It …

Mediaite reports: Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley offered former President Donald Trump some legal advice on air on Wednesday, imploring him to comply with the gag order imposed on him by Judge Juan Merchan in his hush money trial. After blasting what he called a “facially ridiculous” order, Turley was asked what he would tell Trump to do in regards …

From the New York Times’ live blog: Speaker Johnson is now starting his news conference amid boos after meeting with Jewish students. He is surrounded by a group of House Republicans, including New York lawmakers and Representative Virginia Foxx, chairman of the committee that has been holding the hearings on antisemitism on campuses. Johnson says: “The madness has to stop. …

Quinnipiac Polling reports: Two-thirds of voters (66 percent) think abortion should be legal in either all cases (34 percent) or most cases (32 percent), while 27 percent of voters think abortion should be illegal in either most cases (22 percent) or all cases (5 percent). Support for legal abortion (66 percent) is at the highest level in two decades of …

AL.com reports: The Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill to expand a ban on teachers providing instruction or classroom discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. HB130 by Rep. Mack Butler, R-Rainbow City, would expand the ban that now applies from kindergarten through fifth grade to apply through 8th grade. The ban was first passed …