Author: Nicholas Riccardi
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Legal fight escalates over Georgia voting records as Trump says he wants to ‘take over’ elections
ATLANTA (AP) — Officials in Georgia’s Fulton County said Wednesday they have asked a federal court to order the FBI to return ballots and other documents from the 2020 election that it seized last week, escalating a voting battle as President Donald Trump says he wants to “take over” elections from Democratic-run areas with the…
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What a swing House district in Colorado shows about Republicans’ immigration fallout in the midterms
GREELEY, Colo (AP) — Like many Donald Trump voters, Miranda Niedermeier is not opposed to immigration enforcement. She was heartened by initial moves from the Republican president in his second term that she saw as targeting immigrants who were in the United States illegally and had committed crimes. But Niedermeier, 35, has steadily become disillusioned…
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Trump administration demands states ‘undo’ full SNAP payouts as states warn of ‘catastrophic impact’
President Donald Trump’s administration is demanding states “undo” full SNAP benefits paid out under judges’ orders last week, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed those rulings, marking the latest swing in a seesawing legal battle over the anti-hunger program used by 42 million Americans. The demand from the U.S. Department of Agriculture came…
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Super Tuesday takeaways: Biden and Trump momentum can’t be slowed as Haley suspends her campaign
Super Tuesday didn’t quite live up to its name
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Takeaways from Trump’s Supreme Court win: He stays on ballot, but his legal peril is just starting
Former President Donald Trump scored a clear win at the U.S. Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled that states don’t have the ability to bar him or any other federal candidates from the ballot under a rarely used constitutional provision that prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office
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Takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments over whether Trump is ineligible to be president again
The prevailing view among legal experts before the Supreme Court heard argument in a case to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot was that the justices wouldn’t take that step
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What to know about Supreme Court arguments over Trump, the Capitol attack and the ballot
The Supreme Court has scheduled a special session to hear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump is ineligible to be president again and can be kept off the ballot
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Colorado’s justices disqualified Trump from the ballot. Now what? | ANALYSIS
The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to disqualify Trump from the state ballot hinges on several crucial conclusions — notably that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol constituted an “insurrection,” that the former president “engaged in” that act, and his speech was “not protected” by the First Amendment.
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No more ‘nuance’: Democrats slam GOP abortion-rights backers
DENVER • The anxious-looking women talk directly to the camera, warning that the Colorado Republican running for the U.S. Senate opposes the state’s reproductive rights law and supports the conservative Supreme Court justices who revoked the constitutional right to abortion this summer. “It’s not even close,” one says as the ad for the Democratic senator wraps…
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Democrats frustrated by party’s response to abortion ruling
COLORADO SPRINGS • As Sen. Michael Bennet sought to encourage a small crowd of fellow Democrats not to give up the fight for abortion rights, Maryah Lauer stepped forward, bullhorn in hand, to exhort him to do more. “Do you support ending the filibuster and expanding the court?” the 28-year-old called out from a quartet…