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In a pivotal Tuesday morning, June 25, hearing linked to the Georgia election interference and racketeering (RICO) case involving former President Donald Trump and others, a judge has granted the defendants a chance to revise their legal strategy against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Attorney Ashleigh Merchant, representing former Trump 2020 staffer Michael Roman,…
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Nnine families, including several clergy, sued Louisiana over a new law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms. The complaint argued that displaying the Ten Commandments violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, stating it “cannot be reconciled with the fundamental religious-freedom principles that animated the founding of our…
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The Georgia Supreme Court has ordered the immediate removal of Christina Peterson from her position as Probate Judge of Douglas County. The ruling, effective immediately, also bars Peterson from holding any judicial office in the state for the next seven years. This decision comes in response to extensive ethics charges brought against her by the…
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Hunter Biden’s lawyers asserted on Monday that his trial on federal gun charges went forward prematurely earlier this month and must be redone. On June 11, a jury convicted Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden, making him the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a felony. The jury…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a religious freedom challenge against Connecticut’s 2021 law that removed religious exemptions for vaccinations in schools and daycares. In 2021, Connecticut eliminated religious exemptions for childhood immunizations required for public schools, daycares, and colleges. Previously, parents could exempt their children from vaccinations on religious grounds. The new law now…
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Judge Aileen Cannon reacted skeptically to prosecutors’ request to bar former President Donald Trump from making statements that could endanger law enforcement agents working on his classified-documents case. During a hearing in federal court in Florida, Judge Cannon pressed prosecutors for evidence linking Trump’s false claims—that the FBI had been authorized to assassinate him—to violent…
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In the two years since President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law, over 500 individuals, some linked to transnational cartels and organized crime, have faced federal charges for gun trafficking and other crimes. A White House report, obtained by the Associated Press, details the impact of the legislation and its broader…
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Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a comprehensive rebuttal to former President Donald Trump’s claims that his Espionage Act prosecution should be dismissed due to alleged mishandling of classified documents by federal investigators. The 33-page response counters Trump’s argument that the documents were not preserved in their original order during the Mar-a-Lago search. Smith’s response…
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The ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Louisiana families with children in public schools to challenge a new state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every classroom, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed H.B. 71 into law on Wednesday, making Louisiana the first state to mandate the…
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A court-appointed bankruptcy trustee signaled his intent on Sunday to shut down Alex Jones’ Infowars company, aiming to prevent a “money grab” by families who sued Jones over his false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. Trustee Christopher Murray announced that he has begun planning to wind up Infowars owner Free Speech Systems’…
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