Trump trial Day 1 recap: Courtroom turns contentious as ex-president faces hush money charges Former President Donald Trump's historic New York criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records to disguise a hush money payment to a porn star and unlawfully influence the 2016 ... 04/18/2024 - 1:51 am | View Link
Home Affairs to tighten grip on illegal immigration and spazas Final white paper on citizenship, immigration and refugee protection was published on Wednesday, focusing on much tighter border entry. 04/17/2024 - 3:04 pm | View Link
Who owns businesses in California? A lawmaker wants the public to know SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker wants to require business owners and landlords to disclose their identities under legislation aimed at cracking down on opaque ownership structures that ... 04/17/2024 - 12:24 pm | View Link
How two Mass. lawyers are helping DACA recipients stay in the US The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, has faced many threats since it was created more than a decade ago under the Obama administration, throwing beneficiaries of the policy ... 04/7/2024 - 11:34 am | View Link
Second Amendment The gun lobby celebrated the news that progress on a Colorado assault weapons ban had stalled and a Nebraska concealed carry bill was close to becoming law. In addition to offending the Second ... 03/19/2024 - 3:33 am | View Link
Parody Project just came out with this parody of Cat's In The Cradle to talk about Trump's dysfunctions and narcissism. But what do you expect from a guy who's heroes include Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un?
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“As he walked into court for the first day of his first criminal prosecution, Donald Trump hoped to make clear that it was the system, not him, that was really on trial,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Said Trump: “This is an assault on America. This is political persecution, this is a persecution like never before.
Criminal defense attorney Stacey Schneider says that former President Donald Trump was "rattled" following a Sandoval hearing in the New York hush money trial where he heard a recounting of his criminal history.
Gov. Jared Polis signed “for-cause” eviction protections into law Friday, making Colorado the sixth U. S. state to enact the policy that’s aimed at blunting displacement of vulnerable tenants.
The law, passed by the legislature late last month, effectively gives tenants a right of first refusal to renew their leases. That protection, supporters say, will insulate renters from discriminatory or retaliatory nonrenewals from landlords, who may want to rid themselves of a tenant who complained about an apartment’s condition.
“This is the right thing to do,” said Democratic Rep.