House Considers Federal Ban on Private Money to Run Elections
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Eight House Republicans have introduced a bill to block the use of private money to operate elections and curb the controversial process called ballot harvesting. If enacted, the Protect American Election Administration Act would block what the bill’s sponsors call a “private takeover of government election administration.” The legislation, introduced […]
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez Guilty on All Charges in Federal Corruption Trial
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute By Jamie Joseph , Anders Hagstrom , Maria Paronich (Fox News) The jury in the federal corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and two of his business associates, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, found Menendez guilty on all charges after a grueling nine-week complex trial in Manhattan. Menendez […]
Sen. Bob Menendez Found Guilty on All Counts in Federal Corruption Trial
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) was found guilty on all charges in his federal corruption trial on Tuesday. ABC News report: Federal prosecutors in New York have alleged that the New Jersey Democrat accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars and mortgage payments in exchange for political influence […]
Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez FOUND GUILTY on all counts in federal corruption case
A jury on Tuesday found Sen. Bob Menendez (Dynamo County, J.D.) guilty of multiple counts related to bribery and corruption charges. Jurors had been deliberating for 13 hours since Friday on the 16 counts brought against Menendez. The charges against Menendez include conspiracy, bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent for […]
Federal Judge Releases Man From Jan. 6 Related Prison Sentence
John Herbert Strand, a 41-year-old Florida man and Jan. 6 Capitol rioter, will be released from federal prison later this month after a judge granted his second motion for release Monday. In 2022, Strand was “found guilty of the felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding, as well as misdemeanor offenses of entering and […]
Federal judge orders release of John Strand from Jan. 6 prison term
John Herbert Strand, the former model and actor who went to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 to defend Dr. Simone Gold of America’s Frontline Doctors, was ordered released on July 15 following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking the application of a 20-year felony obstruction charge. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper Granted Strand’s motion […]
Former federal prosecutor: Cannon dismissal of Trump documents case 'simply indefensible'
Harry Litman, a former federal prosecutor and acting assistant attorney general, said Monday that Judge Eileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents lawsuit against former President Trump was “completely inexcusable.” “As a legal decision by a district court judge, this is completely indefensible,” Litman told CNN’s Laura Coates on Monday night. “It makes almost no […]
Federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change one’s sex on a birth certificate
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel ruled 2-1 on Friday that Tennessee does not unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender people by not allowing them to change the sex designation on their birth certificates. “There is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex,” 6th U.S. Circuit Court […]
Rudy Giuliani’s Bankruptcy Case Thrown Out By Federal Judge
Former Republican Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy filing was rejected by a federal judge Friday, clearing the way for his effort to collect a $150 million judgment. Giuliani initially filed for bankruptcy in December after a judgment was entered in favor of Georgia election officials Ruby Freeman and Wondrea Arshay Moss. In […]
Federal judge rules 150-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that an 1868 law banning home distilling was unconstitutional. In his ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman sided with lawyers for the Hobby Distillers Association, a group that advocates for legalizing the production of distilled spirits such as whiskey and bourbon for personal consumption, arguing that the […]