'Right to clean water' legal battle seen as accountability issue for Titusville Although the measure passed overwhelmingly in a referendum, the charter amendment remains in a legal limbo, with city leaders saying ... despite two different judges ruling that the "right to clean ... 05/2/2024 - 6:28 pm | View Link
Why Mayor Quinton Lucas says Kansas City doesn’t need a sanctuary city resolution Lucas said, therefore, he saw no reason to advance a resolution proposed by Councilman Nathan Willett that would assure the Missouri General Assembly that Kansas City was not on the path to becoming a ... 04/23/2024 - 6:35 am | View Link
Supreme Court Will Take Up the Legal Fight Over Ghost Guns, Firearms Without Serial Numbers The Supreme Court agreed to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of hard-to-track ghost guns that had been struck down by lower courts. 04/22/2024 - 9:53 am | View Link
“It would be a disaster”: Judge’s ruling could “short-circuit” Trump’s plan to testify at trial CNN legal analyst Elie Honig warned before Monday's ruling that Trump testifying "would be a disaster." "Anyone who takes the stand is taking an enormous risk," he said. "I know on TV everyone ... 04/21/2024 - 11:26 pm | View Link
“It would be a disaster”: Judge’s ruling could “short-circuit” Trump’s plan to testify at trial "Although Trump has said he wants to testify in his own defense, this ruling could short-circuit that, essentially defeating the purpose of him taking the stand," added the Times' Benjamin Protess. 04/21/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Why did SD Governor Kristi Noem decide to publish her story about killing her allegedly 'untrainable' dog? Her state's Senate Minority Leader offers three theories: Inoculation from others telling it; lifting her national profile - and distraction from her governing record.
Without cameras on Hope Hicks' testimony, media outlets were left with only a transcript to analyze why she broke down in tears. "It's a mistake to say Hope Hicks cried because she knew she just ended Donald Trump's career," says Elie Honig, "or she cried because she had just collapsed on cross-examine.
"The big issue in '68, it turned out, was not Vietnam - it was law and order," says historian James Traub. And for Biden, "The electoral danger is [protesters] offending the much larger group of voters to Biden's right." And his "narrow path" is to "take action in regard to Israel that will show that he shares some of their concernsin a way that does not identify him with the demonstrators."
Despite Biden and Trump now saying they will debate, neither party has contacted the Commission on Presidential Debates, says co-chair Frank Fahrenkopf, and likely won't until after their Conventions. After September 6, the last day any state determines who qualifies for the ballot, "we'll then know who meets the requirement of being on enough ballots to conceivably get 270 electoral votes."
MSNBC's Katy Tur and Axios' Jim VandeHei managed to have a very long conversation about the effects of right wing propaganda without ever mentioning the words right wing propaganda. I guess I should quit being astounded by stuff like this, but it continues to amaze me how people in our corporate news media dance around naming just who exactly is responsible for turning most Republicans' brains into mush.
Here's the transcript of the beginning of their exchange from her show this Thursday, and notice the words that aren't used here.
Donald Trump's TIME interview will shock you. It is a long piece, but every American needs to read it. This country must wake up and realize what we face in the 2024 election: it's all hands on deck. TIME reporter Eric Cortellessa explains:read more