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Joe Biden's campaign raises $1 mn in a day on capitol riots anniversary

The president zeroed in on January 6 to mark the third anniversary of the US Capitol riots and argued in his remarks that democracy is on the ballot in 2024

Former Prez Trump downplays Jan 6 on anniversary of the Capitol siege

Former President Donald Trump, campaigning in Iowa Saturday, marked the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol by casting the migrant surge on the southern border as the real insurrection. Just over a week before the Republican nomination process begins with Iowa's kickoff caucuses, Trump continued to claim that countries have been emptying jails and mental institutions to fuel a record number of migrant crossings. There is no evidence that this is the case. When you talk about insurrection, what they're doing, that's the real deal. That's the real deal. Not patriotically and peacefully peacefully and patriotically," Trump said, quoting from his speech on January 6, before a violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol as part of a desperate bid to keep him in power after his 2020 election loss. Trump's remarks came a day after Biden delivered a speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where he cast Trump as a grave threat to democracy and called .

Capitol attack: Michigan court decides Trump will remain candidate in GOP

With these duelling decisions, the expected appeals to the US Supreme Court become even more critical, especially as the nation races toward the start of the 2024 primaries

Trump ballot ban appealed to US Supreme Court by Colorado Republican Party

The Colorado Republican Party on Wednesday appealed that state's supreme court decision that found former President Donald Trump is ineligible for the presidency, the potential first step to a showdown at the nation's highest court over the meaning of a 155-year-old constitutional provision that bans from office those who engaged in insurrection. The first impact of the appeal is to extend the stay of the 4-3 ruling from Colorado's highest court, which put its decision on pause until January 4, the day before the state's primary ballots are due at the printer, or until an appeal to the US Supreme Court is finished. Trump himself has said he still plans to appeal the ruling to the nation's highest court as well. The US Supreme Court has never ruled on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which was added after the Civil War to prevent former Confederates from returning to government. It says that anyone who swore an oath to support the constitution and then engaged in insurrection against

Trial to determine if Trump can be barred reaches far back in history

The effort to ban former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the Constitution's insurrection clause turned to distant history on Wednesday, when a law professor testified about how the post-Civil War provision was indeed intended to apply to presidential candidates. Gerard Magliocca, of Indiana University, said there was scant scholarship on Section Three of the 14th Amendment when he began researching it in late 2020, but said he uncovered evidence in 150-year-old court rulings, congressional testimony and presidential executive orders that it applied to presidents and to those who simply encouraged an insurrection rather than physically participated in one. Magliocca didn't mention Trump by name, but the plaintiffs in the case have argued that Colorado must ban him from the ballot because his role in the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol, which was intended to halt Congress' certification of Joe Biden's win and keep Trump in power, falls under the provision. The .

Biden WH strategy for impeachment inquiry: Dismiss. Compartmentalize. Scold

On Capitol Hill, House Republicans were all-in Wednesday on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's announcement of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Down Pennsylvania Avenue, the president was holding forth at the White House on the importance of bipartisanship in fighting cancer and ignoring shouted questions about impeachment. It was a clear sign of Biden's broader reelection pitch: the idea that if he simply does his job and governs, Americans will see the results and reward him with four more years. Never mind all that pesky impeachment talk across town. Just an hour earlier, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had dismissed the inquiry as a political stunt and deflected questions about the details to the White House Counsel's Office. House Republicans? We think they should work with us on legitimate issues things that actually matter to the American people," she said. The we're-all-better-than-this attitude is central to the White House strategy for counter

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Trump lawyers seek recusal of judge presiding over election subversion case

Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge presiding over his election subversion case in Washington to recuse herself, saying her past public statements about the former president and his connection to the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol call into question whether she can be fair. The recusal motion from Trump's lawyers takes aim at US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a former assistant public defender who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama and has since stood out as one of the toughest punishers of January 6 defendants. The request that she step aside is the latest flashpoint in already delicate relations between the defense team and the judge, who has repeatedly warned against inflammatory public comments from Trump but has nonetheless been lambasted on social media by him. Although Judge Chutkan may genuinely intend to give President Trump a fair trial and may believe that she can do so her public statements unavoidably taint these ...

Trump WH official Navarro convicted of contempt for defying Jan. 6 subpoena

Trump White House official Peter Navarro was convicted Thursday of contempt of Congress charges filed after he was accused of refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. The verdict came after a short trial for Navarro, who served as a White House trade adviser under President Donald Trump and later promoted the Republican's baseless claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election he lost. Navarro was the second Trump aide to face contempt of Congress charges after former White House adviser Steve Bannon. Bannon was convicted of two counts and was sentenced to four months behind bars, though he has been free pending appeal. Prosecutors said Navarro acted as if he were above the law when he defied a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House Jan. 6 committee. He was charged with two misdemeanour counts of contempt of Congress, both punishable by up to a year behind bars. A defense attorney argued Navarro didn'

Will pardon all peaceful January 6 protesters: US Prez candidate Ramaswamy

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed that he will pardon all peaceful January 6 protesters if he gets elected as the next US president in 2024. The 38-year-old Indian American entrepreneur has gained traction after he denounced the US Justice Department for its "political persecution" of non-violent protesters at the Republican primary presidential debate last month. America now has a two-tiered justice system: Antifa and BLM rioters roam free while peaceful January 6 protesters are imprisoned without bail. Biden's Department of Injustice' has executed over 1,000 arrests for nonviolent offenses related to January 6, casting a dark shadow over Lady Justice and the foundational principles of our legal system, he said in a statement. To unify this country, I commit as president to pardon all Americans who were targets of politicised federal prosecutions and those denied due process. This includes all peaceful, nonviolent January 6 protesters who were denied their

Trump WH adviser acted above law in defying Jan 6 Committee: Prosecutors

A White House adviser to President Donald Trump acted as if he were "above the law when he refused to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, prosecutors argued at his trial Wednesday. Peter Navarro was charged with two counts of contempt of Congress, but his lawyer argued he didn't ignore the House Jan. 6 Committee. Instead, Navarro told members to contact Trump about what might be protected by executive privilege, the attorney said. A judge has found the privilege argument alone isn't a defense against the charges because Navarro couldn't show evidence that the former Republican president had invoked it. Both sides rested after committee staffers testified about sending the subpoena and Navarro's response. Closing arguments and jury deliberations are expected Thursday. Navarro, a senior trade adviser, was subpoenaed in February 2022 by the House panel investigating how and why a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capit

Donald Trump raises $7.1 million as Georgia arrest rallies supporters

Trump brought in $4.18 million just on Friday, the highest single-day haul of his 2024 presidential campaign effort, the person said

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Will surrender Thursday on Georgia charges on 2020 election: Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump says he will surrender to authorities in Georgia on Thursday to face charges in the case accusing him of illegally scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss. Can you believe it? I'll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED, Trump wrote on his social media network Monday night, hours after court papers said his bond was set at $200,000. The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Monday afternoon that when Trump surrenders there will be a hard lockdown of the area surrounding the main county jail. Trump, according to the papers, is also barred from intimidating co-defendants, witnesses or victims in the case including on social media according to the bond agreement signed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Trump's defense attorneys and the judge. It explicitly includes posts on social media or reposts of posts made by others. Trump has repeatedly used social media to attack people involved in the criminal

Trump's bond set at $200,000 in case over efforts to overturn 2020 election

Donald Trump's bond has been set at $200,000 in the Georgia case accusing the former president of illegally scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss, according to court papers filed Monday. Trump is also barred from intimidating co-defendants, witnesses or victims in the case including on social media according to the bond agreement signed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Trump's defense attorneys and the judge. It explicitly includes posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media. The order says the former president cannot make any direct or indirect threat of any nature against witnesses or co-defendants. He is also prohibited from communicating in any way about the facts of the case with any co-defendant or witness, except through attorneys. The order sets Trump's bond for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations or RICO charge at $80,000, and adds $10,000 for each of the 12 other counts he is facing. Bond is t

Donald Trump seeks recusal of judge, change of venue in January 6 case

He slammed the Biden administration claiming that in the city of Washington DC, murders have shattered "all-time records" and tourists have fled, and called out for a federal takeover

Trump to face judge in DC on charges that he tried to overturn 2020 polls

Donald Trump is due in federal court Thursday to answer to charges that he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, facing a judge just blocks from the US Capitol that his supporters stormed to block the peaceful transfer of presidential power. In what's by now become a familiar but nonetheless stunning ritual, Trump is expected to be processed by law enforcement, be officially taken into custody and enter a not guilty plea in front of a judge before being released, so he can rejoin the campaign trail as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024. An indictment Tuesday from Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith charges Trump with four felony counts related to his efforts to undo the presidential election in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. The charges could lead to a yearslong prison sentence in the event of a conviction. Trump was the only

Prosecutors may be aiming for quick Trump trial by not naming conspirators

By not naming or charging six alleged co-conspirators in the indictment this week of former President Donald Trump, federal prosecutors may be signalling their desire to expeditiously put the Republican presidential front-runner on trial for seeking to overturn the 2020 election. More defendants mean more defence lawyers, and more legal motions and more delays, according to legal scholars and former prosecutors. Such a large cast of defendants would make it extremely difficult for Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith to get Trump in front of a jury before the final stretch in the 2024 campaign, the experts said. This keeps it pretty streamlined, said Christopher Ott, a former federal prosecutor. All of those motions by defendants affect all of the defendants, including Trump. It would slow things down. If you don't name and charge them, you don't have that trouble. Trump, 77, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington on Tuesday on felony charges of seeking to ...

Mass shooting in town 30 miles away from US Capitol Hill, 3 dead, 3 injured

he police chief also said a "person of interest" was in custody and a weapon was seized from the shooting

Govt tries to claw back money so Jan 6 rioters don't profit from appeals

Less than two months after he pleaded guilty to storming the US Capitol, Texas resident Daniel Goodwyn appeared on Tucker Carlson's then-Fox News show and promoted a website where supporters could donate money to Goodwyn and other rioters whom the site called political prisoners. The Justice Department now wants Goodwyn to give up more than USD 25,000 he raised a clawback that is part of a growing effort by the government to prevent rioters from being able to personally profit from participating in the attack that shook the foundations of American democracy. An Associated Press review of court records shows that prosecutors in the more than 1,000 of the January 6, 2021, criminal cases are increasingly asking judges to impose fines on top of prison sentences to offset donations from supporters of the Capitol rioters. Dozens of defendants have set up online fundraising appeals for help with legal fees, and prosecutors acknowledge there's nothing wrong with asking for help for attorne