How Donald Trump's Court Confinement Is Hurting His Campaign Experts told Newsweek that having to attend court will hamper the Republican's ability to hit the campaign trail. 04/26/2024 - 9:10 am | View Link
Reality on abortion hits the Supreme Court Many of the male justices seemed comfortable keeping the argument at a level of abstraction, but the female justices pushed back. 04/26/2024 - 8:11 am | View Link
Supreme Court justices appear split over whether to protect abortion care during emergencies The U.S. Supreme Court debated this week whether a federal law applying to emergency medical treatment encompasses abortion care, even in states with strict abortion bans. But during the two hours of ... 04/26/2024 - 8:00 am | View Link
We Need Cameras in Court Now More Than Ever We have advocated for cameras in courtrooms in many editorials over many years. That need has now become urgent. 04/26/2024 - 4:29 am | View Link
Trump's week of split screen court moments, several legal issues | The Excerpt Plus: Protests continue on college campuses over the war in Gaza. NY appeals court has overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction. 04/26/2024 - 3:57 am | View Link
What Is A Kangaroo Court? Explaining Trump's Tweet : NPR What Is A Kangaroo Court? Explaining Trump's Tweet. October 9, 20195:11 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. 1-Minute Listen. Playlist. President Trump tweeted Tuesday that the U.S. House of... 04/26/2024 - 1:10 am | View Website
The saying 'Kangaroo court' What's the origin of the phrase 'Kangaroo court'? Kangaroo courts are sham legal proceedings which are set-up in order to give the impression of a fair legal process. In fact, they offer no impartial justice as the verdict, invariably to the detriment of the accused, is decided in advance. 04/25/2024 - 3:08 pm | View Website
Kangaroo court Definition & Meaning 1. : a mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted. 2. : a court characterized by irresponsible, unauthorized, or irregular status or procedures. Did you know? A kangaroo court has never been a court by or for kangaroos, but beyond that, little is known for sure about the term's origins. 04/25/2024 - 9:18 am | View Website
Three Features of a Kangaroo Court As a general rule, a kangaroo court is any proceeding that attempts to imitate a fair trial or hearing without the usual due process safeguards including the right to call witnesses, the right to confront your accuser and a hearing before a fair and impartial judge. 04/24/2024 - 3:14 am | View Website
Kangaroo Court Definition of Kangaroo Court. Noun. A bogus court, the intention of which is to provide the illusion of a fair justice system where none exists. A mob, or self-appointed, tribunal that mocks society’s principals of law or human rights. Origin. 1850-1855 Americanism. What is Kangaroo Court 04/24/2024 - 2:02 am | View Website
Former Speaker of the House and all around badass had no time for Katy Tur's bullshit today. She joined her for a polite in studio interview at MSNBC and with the skill and bluntness that only Nancy Pelosi possesses, she put Tur in her place with on sentence.
PELOSI: So there's nothing in his performance, if that's the word we'll use, what he has done, that would indicate that he cares, prioritizes, or ever valued or did anything to support a democracy.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has doubled down on her defense of murdering her 14-month-old puppy, Cricket, who, she said in her new book, she "hated." Noem didn't try to rehome Cricket to someone with a soul. She said she "hated that dog" and shot her dead by the gravel pit.
CNN reporter Donie O'Sullivan is working on a special investigation into the pervasiveness and perversity of Christian Nationalism and the misinformation it brings with it.
In his latest segment, he shows an encounter he had with a woman named Julian Lightfoot, who was adamant that our Constitutional rights were God given rights because God is in the Constitution.
“Google and X, formerly Twitter, recently provided hundreds of files to Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake electors plot,” CNN reports.
“The previously unreported warrants gave prosecutors access to new Chesebro emails and his private direct messages on Twitter.”
“As he awaits his turn to take the witness stand, Michael Cohen has discussed Donald Trump, the ongoing trial, and the testimony already underway during nightly livestreams on TikTok which appear to be earning him financial benefit through viewers’ donations,” ABC News reports.
“And while the undertaking doesn’t appear to run afoul of any court order, experts say it hurts the already-blemished credibility of an essential witness in the case.”
“Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to the European Union for the first time in five years with a clear message: Beijing offers much more of an economic opportunity for the bloc than the U. S. wants to admit,” Bloomberg reports.
“The Chinese leader will begin his five-day trip to France, Serbia and Hungary on May 5, according to the Foreign Ministry in Beijing.