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No, if you read the paper, you'll find it does not say that at all. Also note that Democrats did not write this paper. It is the product of two conservative constitutional scholars who are members of the conservative Federalist Society; an organization that successfully lobbied to get numerous...

Why Trump May Not be on the 2024 Ballot in Several States This new 126-page paper, was written by two legal scholars and conservative Federalist Society members. Their paper provides the legal foundation for any official whose job it is to determine a candidate's eligibility for public office...

So you say, but she is not going to recuse, is she? If she was going to do that, she would have done it already. The next step toward recusal is for Trump to file in court a request that she recuse. 10 days ago, he said he will do that very thing "immediately." But nothing yet. So unless Trump...

If Trump Doesn't Get This Message ... (Chutkan quotes from various news sources.) In court today, Judge Chutkan sent a clear message to Trump. If he does not get this message, he'll find himself in deep trouble with a judge who made it clear that "I will do everything necessary to protect the...

They may be working on it but by all accounts, any motion for the judge to recuse or for a change of venue will fail. I think that's the reason "immediately" turned into nothing.

Trump did not say he wanted to take care of other court issues first. He said "immediately." That was 9 days ago.

As Expected, Trump Gets No Special Status in Court Because He's a Candidate "The defendant has the right to free speech, but that right is not absolute," [Judge] Chutkan said at the onset of the hearing. "Without a protective order, a party could release that info to the jury pool." ... "The...

Why Has This Not Happened Yet? Nine days ago, Trump said he would immediately request a change of venue for the election interference trial, and that Judge Chutkan be recused. But he has filed no such request to date. Why not?

Belief in the Big Lie is Fading Trump’s lawyers have repeatedly disowned their own specific stolen-election claims in the face of legal pressure. Trump’s 2024 GOP opponents are increasingly saying, contrary to his claims, that he in fact lost the 2020 election. And while as many as 7 in 10...

Smith Proposes Jan 2 Trial Date for Election Interference Case Smith says in a court filing today that it will take no more than 4-6 weeks to present the evidence to the jurors after it starts. (Source)

Is Trump Well? Since before he was elected in 2016, a number of mental-health experts and laypeople have speculated about Trump's mental state. That has gone on for years. Noticing Trump has spent the last few days spewing forth an extraordinary level of venom, even for him, I'm beginning to...

That is not an unreasonable hope for DeSantis supporters to maintain. Some may scoff at it, but it is not unreasonable.

Continuing Losses Rattle the Anti-Abortion Movement While some conservatives like to pretend that Ohio's Issue 1 was merely a vote about the constitution amendment process, voter comments and post-election alarms sounded by anti-abortion groups clearly indicate this was an abortion-rights proxy...

Donald Trump; Team Player ... Not By declining it himself, Trump just gave every other candidate space to decline the nominee-support pledge too. https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-wont-sign-republican-004206391.html

Except, being found guilty of and being imprisoned for felony crimes, as several politicians have demonstrated. Few if any politicians have come back from that.

https://www.chronicleonline.com/news/national/desantis-retaliation-against-disney-hurts-florida-former-governors-and-lawmakers-say/article_7103e713-3792-5834-a379-2dd5b5bcdc72.html

https://news.yahoo.com/hates-america-trump-slammed-admitting-071531117.html

DeSantis Polling Plunge Continues In January, according to the FiveThirtyEight average of all polls, DeSantis' was polling 40.5% which was his all-time high. Today, he's at 15.6%. A New Hampshire poll just put him in single digits at 9%, which ties him with Chris Christie. (Source) A Fox...

That's a fair point, and one that makes another; namely, abortion rights votes motivate Democrats more than Republicans, when abortion rights are threatened.

I've said it before. Trump is a flight risk. He would defect to Russia before serving time in a US prison. Just recently, he's talking about living in France.