“As two other states have already recognized, Donald Trump’s instigation of and participation in the insurrection three years ago provide overwhelming cause for his disqualification from holding office in the United States.” Just two days away from the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 insurrection, voters in Illinois and Massachusetts on Thursday joined the nationwide effort to boot former Republican U.S. […]
“It is a blight on Australia’s history that successive governments of various political persuasions have failed to uphold the rights of First Nations people,” said the Australia director for Human Rights Watch. Indigenous groups in Australia on Sunday called for a “Week of Silence” beginning Saturday night to protest what one campaigner called the “gut-wrenching” […]
WHITE HOUSE — Retiring U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley forcefully defended American democracy and the Constitution on Friday, as he handed the reins of the military’s top post to his successor, General Charles Q. Brown Jr. “We don’t take an oath to a tribe. We don’t take an oath to a religion. […]
“Last week the leader of the Republican Party had dinner with a Nazi leader and a man who called Adolf Hitler ‘great,’” said Rep. Bill Pascrell. “Yesterday Trump called for throwing out the Constitution and making himself dictator.” Repeating his thoroughly disproven lie that the 2020 election was stolen, former President Donald Trump called Saturday for […]