One journalist warned that the state court “laid the groundwork for potentially overturning the election” in favor of Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs’ GOP challenger, Jefferson Griffin. Democracy defenders across the United States on Tuesday responded with alarm to Republicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court blocking certification of incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ […]
“Delay is the name of the game here,” said one legal analyst. “If they can just stop the clock until January 20th, then… the attorney general will be a Trump appointee and they can kill the whole thing.” A ileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida, ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to temporarily […]
The president-elect’s sentencing is scheduled for January 10, though it will almost certainly be appealed. President-elect Donald Trump will almost certain to be the first felon to serve as U.S. president following a ruling on Friday by New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. Weeks before Trump is set to take office, Merchan upheld Trump’s criminal conviction of 34 counts of falsifying […]
The authority President Joe Biden used could make it difficult for the incoming Trump administration to reverse the sweeping drilling ban. Outgoing President Joe Biden on Monday moved to permanently ban offshore oil and gas drilling across more than 625 million acres of U.S. coastal territory, protecting swaths of the East Coast, the eastern Gulf […]