WaPo: “After spending years digging in the shadows, Roman is now in the spotlight, having landed a damaging blow to the racketeering case that Georgia prosecutors are pursuing against Trump and more than a dozen others — including Roman — for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Roman has pleaded not guilty. In a bombshell…
Month: February 2024
“Haley says states have the right to secede”
Politico: “Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley defended the rights of states to secede from the country if they chose to do so, though stressed it was unlikely to happen. In an interview with the influential hip hop morning show The Breakfast Club that aired on Wednesday, the former U.N. Ambassador made the case that the…
“Republicans Challenge Mail Ballot Deadlines”
Political Wire: “Associated Press: “A lawsuit filed last week in Mississippi follows a similar one last year in North Dakota, both brought in heavily Republican states before conservative federal courts.” “Democratic and voting rights groups are concerned about the potential impact beyond those two states if a judge rules that deadlines for receiving mailed ballots…
“A Select Few Witnessed Alabama’s Nitrogen Execution. This Is What They Saw.”
NY Times: “When Alabama conducted the first known execution using nitrogen gas last week, the world was watching — in a figurative sense. Only a small group of witnesses actually watched Kenneth Smith die on a gurney in an execution chamber in rural Alabama, an execution that state officials described as a model for other states looking…