Vivek Ramaswamy’s fight for the Republican presidential nomination is increasingly turning into a battle with the Republican Party itself. Ramaswamy’s latest salvo, after he attacked Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel in his opening statement at last week’s GOP debate, includes the launch of a new website: FireRonna.com. He blames McDaniel for the party’s bad…
PHOENIX — Operating a swing-state election office in 2023 requires not just attention to detail, but also fortitude — and in the case of Maricopa County, Arizona, Recorder Stephen Richer, an enormous amount of caffeine. “Yes, I am a Diet Coke addict — a living, walking experiment,” he told NBC News. “I probably drink north…
Trump trials: What counts as protected free speech? | View caption Hide caption “There’s nothing more protected under the First Amendment than political speech,” Mr. Lauro said. Many legal analysts are skeptical this approach will work in a courtroom. There is no First Amendment right to engage in a conspiracy to break the law, they…
A federal judge on Wednesday denied ex-White House adviser Peter Navarro’s bid to escape contempt charges by claiming former President Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege over his potential testimony to a congressional panel investigating the events leading up to and including the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The ruling paves the way…
What Trump’s four indictments tell us about America | View caption Hide caption What’s more, Mr. Trump faces felony charges, both federally and in Georgia, that go right to the essence of democracy: alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. In that light, presidential historians say, the United States is at a turning point,…
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu warned fellow Republicans on Monday that their party is doomed to lose “up and down the ballot” in 2024 if second-tier candidates don’t start clearing the field for someone else to take on former President Donald Trump. Sununu, who runs the state with the first primary and the second contest…
A former Justice Department official who served in the Trump administration and is one of 19 defendants in the Georgia 2020 election probe is seeking to pause an ethics case against him, citing the charges he faces in the Fulton County indictment. In a 13-page filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., lawyers for Jeffrey Clark…
First Look Trump pleads not guilty to charges he tried to overturn 2020 election Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in court Thursday to four felony charges that he tried to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss. The magistrate judge set the next hearing on this case for August 28. | View caption Hide…
First Look Former President Trump indicted on charges tied to 2020 election A grand jury indictment focuses on alleged schemes by then-President Donald Trump and his allies to subvert the transfer of power after the 2020 election. | View caption Hide caption | Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on four felony counts that accuse him…
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in…