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Former Trump State Department official convicted for attacking police during Capitol riot

A man who worked as a politically appointed State Department official in former President Donald Trump’s administration has been convicted of charges that he attacked police officers during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021

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Here Is Why Trump's 'Contingent' Electors Say They Did Nothing Illegal

Republicans who participated in the scheme say they relied on legal advice grounded in historical precedent.

Reason

House GOP readies more cuts to fiscal 2024 appropriations bills

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are moving toward deeper cuts in the fiscal 2024 appropriations bills in an effort to win over votes from hard-line conservatives as bills start to move to the House floor next week.

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Texas is largest state to leave bipartisan national effort to prevent voter fraud

Texas is becoming the largest state to resign from a bipartisan, multistate effort to prevent voter fraud

The Independent UK

House Republicans Launch Assault On ESG Regulations

Hearings focus on climate-related disclosures and proxy advisory services as GOP targets ESG investing

Zenger

Trump shares sinister new video issuing apocalyptic threat to anyone who ‘f***s around with us’

The former president is facing the possibility of another federal indictment

The Independent UK

Kansas' attorney general wants to keep trans people from intervening in his lawsuit over state IDs

The Republican attorney general in Kansas is working to keep transgender people from intervening of his state-court lawsuit against changing the sex listings on their state driver’s licenses

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Dems rip RFK Jr. at "censorship" hearing

Republicans gave Democratic candidate claiming "censorship" a national stage. It didn't go well

Salon

Former Georgia GOP chair argues against indictment in Trump probe

Lawyers for Georgia’s former Republican Party chair are again trying to fend off their client’s possible indictment into possible criminal interference with the 2020 presidential election.

Tribune News Service

Impeachment trial will delay Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s state bar ethics case

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won’t have to fight an ethics lawsuit over his challenge to the 2020 presidential election results until after his impeachment trial.

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Ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot sued to keep a letter about the city treasurer secret from the Tribune. Will Brandon Johnson continue her fight?

CHICAGO -- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is so far continuing a public records legal battle he inherited from predecessor Lori Lightfoot over a letter regarding alleged misconduct at the city treasurer’s office.

Chicago Tribune

Lightfoot attends hearing for man accused of threatening her, saying it shows need for ‘the protection to which I am entitled’

Lightfoot was trailed by reporters as attended a status hearing Thursday for William Kohler, 42, who is accused of posting a threat last fall on the mayor’s official webpage.

Chicago Sun-Times

Right-wing Georgia radio host says he’s finally had enough of Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘I fight no longer’

The people in her district are “upset,” the host said after visiting the Georgia Republican’s district

The Independent UK

Former Trump Ally Turns Against Him, Funds PAC Supporting DeSantis For 2024

Jim Lamon, former Arizona senate hopeful, backs Florida Governor amid Trump's legal woes.

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Anthony McCarthy, veteran of Baltimore politics, retires

Anthony McCarthy, a regular around Baltimore City Hall and veteran of numerous political campaigns, sat in a circle of reverends in Ellicott City Wednesday evening. They prayed over him as his eyes welled with tears.

The Independent UK

Alabama lawmakers are divided on eve of major redistricting deadline impacting Black voters

Alabama lawmakers are divided over adopting new congressional districts

Ballotpedia

SCOTUS strikes down student debt cancellation plan, takes up case on agency enforcement authority

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

The Guardian - US

Donald Trump faces midnight deadline to decide whether to face grand jury

Three charges relating to the Capitol attack are reportedly being considered, among other legal challenges for the ex-president

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Floridians to DeSantis: Come home and fix housing crisis, other woes

TALLAHASSEE — While Gov. Ron DeSantis barnstorms the country campaigning for president, a growing chorus of Floridians are urging him to come home to deal with the state’s soaring housing costs and other problems.

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Poll finds 16% would consider backing Joe Manchin on a third-party ticket

A new poll finds just 16% of registered voters would consider supporting a fusion third-party ticket with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin for president, highlighting the uphill path for the Democrat if he were to enter the 2024 race.

Tribune News Service

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans push to ‘expunge’ Trump impeachments

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning to push to “expunge” former President Donald Trump’s two impeachments even though such a move would have no practical effect and it’s not clear he has the votes to pass it.

The Independent UK

Majorie Taylor Greene doubles down on showing Hunter Biden nudes to Congress

Congressman Jamie Raskin said the incident was ‘an assault to the dignity of the committee’

Chicago Sun-Times

Feds say they’ll answer Ed Burke’s question about Danny Solis testimony by Aug. 31

Solis’ public testimony more than four years after he was outed as a government cooperator could turn out to be among the most closely watched in years at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, if it happens.

Tribune News Service

Councilmember calls colleague ‘un-American’ for pushing multilingual ballots in Atlanta suburb

ATLANTA -- A Morrow, Georgia, city councilwoman said a Vietnamese-American colleague “failed as a citizen of this country” and “dishonored” her office because she backed a petition for multilingual ballots ahead of the metro Atlanta city’s upcoming election.

Salon

MTG's Hunter Biden "d**k pics" backfire

AOC told Greene to look at Matt Gaetz if she wanted to follow evidence of "sex trafficking"

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