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Supreme Court rules in favor of federal employee in furlough case The Supreme Court has ruled federal courts can provide civil servants some latitude in the timing of their appeals of actions agencies take against them, deciding in favor of a Defense Department ... 05/28/2024 - 8:59 am | View Link
Following former President Trump’s first criminal conviction—and his rambling against the outcome—he’s claiming that the possibility of being sentenced to house arrest or jail time doesn’t bother him.
“I’m okay with it,” Trump said on Fox & Friends Weekend, in his first interview since a dozen jurors handed down guilty verdicts on 34 of 34 felony charges for falsifying business records on Thursday.
The Fox & Friends hosts said they spent 90 minutes interviewing the former president at his Bedminster, New Jersey estate.
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff tells CNN's Kasie Hunt that "they should recommend a sentence no greater or no less than any other citizen would get for committing those kinds of crimes."
GOP Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who previously called January 6 rioters “insurrectionists” who “should face the full extent of federal law,” is now singing a different tune: Many of those insurrectionists, he believes, should be “considered” for, and receive, presidential pardons.
On NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Cotton said people “who did not attack a law enforcement officer, [and] who did not damage public property ” on Jan.
GRANBY — Few physical reminders remain in this unassuming mountain town 20 years after a rampage by an aggrieved muffler shop owner attracted worldwide attention.
Marvin Heemeyer — convinced he’d been wronged by town leaders — plotted for more than a year, crafting and installing a 40,000-pound steel and concrete enclosure atop a bulldozer.