The Supreme Court, 7-2, voted to deny Texas AG Paxton's motion for leave to file its election complaint. Justices Alito and Thomas would grant Motion for Leave, but provide no other relief.
Bill Barr and Donald Trump spend the end of their terms executing prisoners.
If you thought the briefing in Texas v. Pennsylvania could not get worse, you are in for a surprise.
More than 100 members of Congress signed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election, including several prominent members of the group founded to protect "the rule of law."
Some Trump supporters find it easier to believe that every major American institution is potentially corrupt than to think that a president with a history of telling whoppers is being dishonest again.
The four defendant states in Texas v. Pennsylvania file their briefs in opposition.
Seeking to join a last-ditch effort to overturn Joe Biden's victory, the president's attorney says "it is not necessary...to prove that fraud occurred."
17 states submitted a brief supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's effort to prevent the selection of electors in four states, but only 6 joined today's motion to intervene. [Update: Meanwhile, Ohio files a brief that's worth reading.]
As in many previous cases, government officials promised huge economic gains from seizing property for transfer to private interests - but failed to deliver.
To move back in a libertarian direction, the Republican Party will have to do more than jettison Trump. But as long as it remains in Trump's thrall, that reversal is all but impossible.
The Constitution “plainly makes the appointment of electors a state-by-state matter.”
The Trump years were more than infuriating on trade matters—they were destructive.
A pardon is something granted, like a gift, and it is presumed one cannot grant something to themselves.
The president and his allies keep losing election cases.
Five who tested positive recently will participate in this week’s planned executions of Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bourgeois.
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The justices declined to intervene on behalf of Republicans who challenged absentee voting in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania's response to Rep. Kelly's effort to invalidate Pennsylvania's election results.
According to the ruling, the former Trump attorney also filed the wrong claims in the wrong court at the wrong time on behalf of the wrong plaintiffs.
"Don't listen to my friends," the president says, referring to supporters who took his fraud allegations seriously.
Trump could have reined in his Twitter attacks, surrounded himself with truth-tellers rather than sycophants, and reached out to other voters. He didn't. That's why he lost.
"This is about restoring faith and confidence in American elections," the president says.
The outgoing FCC chairman discusses 'light-touch' regulation and the future of free speech on the internet.
The former Trump attorney's election fraud lawsuits feature the same sort of dubious evidence that has failed to impress courts across the country.
Either the AG is acknowledging reality, or he's joined the anti-Trump deep state conspiracy.
President Trump pardoned a turkey and an agent of Turkey. Will he give himself a lame duck pardon next?
Many of the justices seem intent on avoiding the substantive issues at stake in a case challenging the legality of Trump's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment count for congressional representation.
The president has the worst record for clemency in modern history.
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Fox News interviewer Maria Bartiromo uncritically accepts Trump's outlandish conspiracy theory.
"The Campaign cannot win this lawsuit," the 3rd Circuit says. "The Campaign's claims have no merit."
His angry insistence that "I'm the President of the United States!" is reminiscent of Joffrey's famous similar statement: "I am the King!"
Judge Stephanos Bibas, on behalf of unanimous panel, finds the Trump campaigns arguments have "no merit."
There’s no journalist more relentlessly iconoclastic than Greenwald, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Snowden revelations.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist on Joe Biden, free speech, and leaving The Intercept for Substack.
Aaron Van Langevelde, Brad Raffensperger, and other state and local officials did the right thing and steered America away from the precipice.
At least nine GOP senators are publicly urging the president to concede or questioning his claim that he actually won.
Donald Trump continues to refuse to concede.
J.D. Vance's memoir was an inherently political story. The film tries to ignore its context.
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Both the president and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have publicly embraced Powell's wild claims about voting machine manipulation.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann rejected an attempt to block certification of Pennsylvania's election results.
Without a shred of evidence, Sidney Powell is alleging a conspiracy more vast than Russiagate. Shouldn't that raise red flags?
His promotion of far-fetched conspiracy theories about the election is highly unlikely to change the results. But it is damaging, nonetheless.
Although the president's lawyer says the anti-Trump conspiracy is "easily provable," the affidavits he cites fall notably short.
The brief filed by Univ. of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson and myself explains why the Trump administration's efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment count for allocating seats in the House of Representatives goes against the text and original meaning of the Constitution.
