NBC News reports: False reports about the jury instructions in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial have been spreading across right-wing media, leading to threats against the judge overseeing the case. Several conservative news personalities, including some affiliated with Fox News, falsely claimed that Judge Juan Merchan, as one Fox News anchor put it in a viral post on …
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“Are these progressive women, these feminists – are they saying we should have Handmaid’s Tale? Did they just say can’t you muzzle your own wife? I think that was the quote. What is going on? Are they that unhinged? Because Justice Alito’s wife, right, is now on my short list to be VP. She’s a hammer. She’s not Handmaid’s Tale. …
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Colorado Politics reports: A federal judge on Monday threw out an attempt by former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters to end an alleged criminal investigation of her for conduct related to election equipment tampering. Peters, a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for secretary of state in 2022 and GOP party chair in 2023, is set to face criminal trial in state …
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“Judge Merchan — Juan Merchan — has somehow made new rules for this case. And in a very odd twist, this judge, Merchan, has instructed the jurors that they, in fact, do not need to be unanimous. “Some can find Trump guilty of, say, one thing. Others may find him guilty of another charge. And somehow, they all just need …
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Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court gave a boost on Thursday to the National Rifle Association in its free speech dispute with a New York state official it accused of coercing banks and insurers to avoid doing business with the influential gun rights advocacy group. The justices, in a 9-0 decision authored by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, threw out a …
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Bill Pruitt writes for Slate: I was one of four producers involved in the first two seasons. During that time, I signed an expansive nondisclosure agreement that promised a fine of $5 million and even jail time if I were to ever divulge what actually happened. It expired this year. “I think Kwame [Jackson] would be a great addition to …
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Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: NBC News is the latest to stir the pot, insisting that they spoke to nine people close to the Trump campaign who warned that there’s a strategy afoot to stop conservatives from moving the party platform “too far to the right” on things like abortion and same-sex marriage. That’s sounding plenty of alarms …
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“What if I told you there’s a magical place. where they can print money and you never have to pay your bills? A place where spending money you don’t have is good, term limits are bad and border security doesn’t matter? “It’s a place where they don’t care about crime or inflation. And where you can invent your own truth. …
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NBC News reports: Court reconvenes at 9:30 this morning, and some of the first orders of business will be related to jury requests from yesterday. Jurors yesterday afternoon requested to rehear parts of witness testimony, including three portions of David Pecker’s testimony and a section of Michael Cohen’s testimony. Amid deliberations, the jury requested to rehear portions of witness testimony, …
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“Nikki Haley is disgusting. She’s a disgusting human being to do that. That’s genocidal language and it’s the language that has the American people turning against our government. Why do we continue to support not just the consistent attacks in Gaza, but the forever wars? There are people in our country, their entire lives, me included, it seems like we’re …
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