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More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe first former U. S. President to face a criminal trial and the judge overseeing those proceedings are both children of Queens. Donald Trump grew up in a faux Tudor house in Jamaica Estates, and Juan Merchan was raised a few miles down the Grand Central Parkway in Jackson Heights. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Merchan knows more about Trump than their shared geography.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Senate clash over the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas lasted less than three hours as Democrats moved quickly on Wednesday to dismiss the charges as unconstitutional. The stunted Senate trial marked the end of the deeply partisan and historic effort to convict and remove Mayorkas from office over his handling of the U.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDenver Fire Department Chief Desmond Fulton said Wednesday that he was following what he believed to be the department’s standards when he claimed hundreds of hours of compensatory time off — and then effectively cashed much of it in for $42,000 in extra pay over the last three years. The chief says he supports an investigation into how he and other members of the department’s leadership tracked and used their hours and paid time off.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTrump attorney Alina Habba made a hideous comparison to Trump and Nelson Mandela, when she was asked by Fox News host if Trump goes to jail for thirty-days for violating the judges orders. There is no class or dignity within the Trumpverse. MacCallum: Do you think that this threat of 30 days in jail will change the social media actions of the former president in any way?
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDuring a hearing on President Biden’s 2025 request for the Department of Justice, Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) seemed more interested in MAGA gotchas rather than the less clickbaity but more substantive work of delving into the appropriation request. Unfortunately for Cline, Attorney General Merrick Garland failed to give him the made-for-Fox-News soundbite that was Cline's likely objective. First, Cline played the conservative victim card: He claimed there’s “a crisis of confidence” in the Department of Justice “created by the dual treatment of American citizens depending on their viewpoints or their political positions or their political offices.” He was trying to suggest that Donald Trump is being unfairly prosecuted for stealing classified documents and refusing to return them when Biden's completely different behavior was not.
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