Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) “is prepared to blame his wife at his bribery trial for withholding information from him about gifts they allegedly accepted from businessmen seeking favors, a newly unsealed court document shows,” Bloomberg reports.
“The revelation came Tuesday in a portion of a March court filing in which lawyers for the New Jersey Democrat asked a US judge to try him separately from his wife, Nadine.
Arizona U. S. Senate candidate Kari Lake (R) urged supporters in Arizona to “strap on a Glock” pistol as they prepare for what she called an intense six months leading up to the Nov. 5 elections, Reuters reports.
Said Lake: “We are going to put on the armor of God. Then maybe strap on a Glock.”
“Israel is vowing to retaliate against Iran, risking further expanding the shadow war between the two foes into a direct conflict after an Iranian attack over the weekend sent hundreds of drones and missiles toward Israel,” the AP reports.
“Israeli officials have not said how or when they might strike. But as countries around the world urge Israel to show restraint and the threat of a multi-front war mounts, it’s clear that a direct Israeli attack on Iranian soil would lead to major fallout.”
Just about every Democrat running in competitive Senate races this year significantly out-raised their GOP challenger in the first quarter, Axios reports.
“Donald Trump is set after court to visit what once was the Harlem bodega where a clerk in 2022 fatally stabbed a customer in what he described as self-defense,” Politico reports.
“That clerk, Jose Alba, became the face of alleged over-prosecution by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who’s brought the hush money case against Trump.
Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday questioned the Justice Department’s use of a 2002 statute against obstructing an official proceeding to prosecute a number of people involved in the January 6 attack on Congress. In pressing Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar on how broadly the DOJ can apply the law, several justices offered similar hypotheticals.
“Would a heckler in today’s audience qualify?” Justice Neil Gorsuch asked.
“Why has no one been charged for disrupting the Supreme Court?” Justice Samuel Alito asked, referring to previous protests that briefly disrupted high court hearings related to the court’s 2022 Dobbs ruling overturning abortion rights.