Month: July 2024

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Conservative megadonor Leonard Leo is funneling millions of dollars into the primary race for Missouri’s attorney general. His anointed candidate is Will Scharf, a personal attorney to Donald Trump who represented the former president in the immunity case decided Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.  What’s remarkable about the Missouri race is that the Republican incumbent, Andrew
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Goodwin, Stern, Donegan, Bouie, Dennie and Geidner. (Courtesy of Georgetown’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law) Monday, July 1, marked the end of a historic and ominous Supreme Court term—with bombshell rulings on presidential immunity, the right to abortion care in emergencies, gun control, the criminalization of homelessness, the availability of medication abortion
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In the days following the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol instigated by then President Donald Trump, the social media sites Facebook and Twitter decided enough was enough and (temporarily) shut down his accounts, which were teeming with incendiary rhetoric and disinformation. Trump’s followers set out to make sure that nothing of the sort happens
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We check out the new Ruger American Generation II family of bolt-action rifles, featuring 47 configurations in 20 calibers. The original Ruger American series of bolt-action rifles have been incredibly popular hunting guns since they were first released over 10 years ago. Now, under the new title of Ruger American Generation II, the line is
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Gene Scalia, the renowned administrative law litigator and former Secretary of Labor who has been retained by a large bank lobbying group for a potential lawsuit over capital rules, says a key decision by the Supreme Court last week should be a warning for all regulators.Caroline Brehman/Bloomberg Transcription: Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech
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She was a firebrand Democrat. Now, Cleta Mitchell is a rising star of Republican election denialism Before she joined Donald Trump in asking Georgia state officials to ‘find 11,780 votes’ in 2020, Mitchell was the feminist flag bearer of the Equal Rights amendment in Oklahoma Meet the election operators:Steve BannonCharlie KirkKevin Roberts View image in
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ended its term by ruling for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, a decision that almost certainly means Donald Trump won’t stand trial before the November election. That closely watched ruling, which drew sharp dissent from the minority justices, was among a cluster of
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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has kept a fairly low profile since assuming the job in 2014, but one element from his confirmation hearings now appears to have been worth keeping in mind. The most strident opposition to Murthy’s appointment came from the National Rifle Association, which was furious at him for making sense about the