Via Kyle Griffin:
Cornel West has lost a legal challenge in his bid to get on the presidential ballot in #Pennsylvania.
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“ #Colorado Republicans have voted to remove their party’s chairman amid mounting internal criticism of his leadership, including over recent posts that attacked the #LGBTQ community and accusations that he had fueled divisions within the party…
Party members selected Eli Bremer, a former chairman of the party in El Paso County in Colorado, to serve out Mr. Williams’s term.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/us/colorado-gop-chair.html
“A federal judge has ruled #Trump and his campaign must pause on using the song “Hold On, I’m Coming.”
The decision came after the estate of the late R&B artist and songwriter Isaac Hayes sought an emergency injunction to stop the Trump campaign from using the song at campaign events, alleging the campaign does not have approval.”
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“Fed judge rejected #Trump’s request to intervene in his NY hush $ crim case, thwarting latest bid to overturn felony conviction & delay his sentencing.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled Trump had not satisfied the burden of proof required for fed court to take control of case from state court where it was tried
..hours after Manhattan prosecutors raised obj to Trump ‘s effort to delay post-trial decisions while he sought to have fed court step in”
https://apnews.com/article/a905207c7db9fc48d022d68ac6cc12e1
“A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon #Musk’s social media platform #X nationwide, according to the court’s website.
The broader support among justices deals a blow to Musk and his supporters…” #Brazil https://apnews.com/article/6942614705a4e85064f1d98628b49295
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Bloomberg: US consumer confidence rose to a six-month high in August as more upbeat views of the #economy and inflation offset waning optimism about the labor market.
BIG: Special Counsel #JackSmith has filed a superseding indictment in the DC federal election interference case against #Trump. #legal
New indictment:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.226.0.pdf
Link: https://trib.al/RvcRz16
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"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it intends to seek sanctions against Elon #Musk after he failed to appear for scheduled testimony for the regulator's probe into his $44 billion takeover of #Twitter.
In a court filing, the SEC said the sanctions motion would seek an order to show case for why Musk should not be held in civil contempt." https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-sec-intends-seek-sanctions-against-elon-musk-twitter-probe-2024-09-20/
“New York’s high court tossed out #Trump’s appeal of the gag order in his hush money criminal case Thursday.
The #GagOrder, which remains in partial effect ahead of Trump’s sentencing, bars the former president from making public remarks about prosecutors or their families, but has a carveout allowing remarks about Judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg” #legal
“Federal appeals court has rejected #Trump’s request to halt postconviction proceedings in his hush $ criminal case, leaving a key ruling & Trump’s sentencing on track for after the Nov election.
A 3-judge panel of 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan cited the postponement last week of Trump’s sentencing from Sept. 18 to Nov. 26 in denying his motion for an emergency stay.” https://apnews.com/article/c143a098e633bbe8f624966806996fc2
#WompWomp pending…
“Trump’s golf course flirts with disaster” is the headline on the digital LAT version. This’ll do too:
Rancho Palos Verdes is known for landslides. It's also home to #Trump's golf course - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-13/trump-golf-course-rancho-palos-verdes-landslides
Via @msignorile:
From WashPost piece: "Why do people leave Trump’s rallies early? We asked them."
Four top operatives on #MarkRobinson’s campaign for #NorthCarolina governor have stepped down, the campaign announced on Sunday.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/22/politics/mark-robinson-campaign-resignations?cid=ios_app
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Via Scott MacFarlane:
ALERT: #Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announces he will NOT call a special session prior to November to attempt to change Nebraska to winner-take-all in the electoral college
ADDED: Via every news outlet: "In a blow to #Trump..." #WompWomp
Edited 286d ago
Via Kyle Griffin:
#RFKJr. says he's being investigated by the National Marine Fisheries Institute for "collecting a whale specimen."
One of his daughters described in a 2012 article that her father cut the head off a dead whale that had washed ashore and bungee-corded it to the family's car.
“#Trump has been found liable to pay damages to London singer and songwriter Eddy Grant for using his song Electric Avenue without permission.
It has taken Mr Grant, 76, more than four years to sue the Republican candidate in this year’s presidential election in the US courts, over his 2020 campaign video that used a 40-second clip of the song.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1488zz8jnzo
#WompWomp Trump's media stock dipped to a 52-week low of $12.12 before closing today at $12.15. How low can it go?
“The most far-reaching of #Ohio’s laws restricting #abortion was struck down on Thursday by a county judge who said last year’s voter-approved amendment enshrining reproductive rights renders the so-called heartbeat law unconstitutional.”
https://apnews.com/article/e83ad0f1af11ded06d73d900bb240a04
Via Kyle Cheney:
A federal judge has tossed Rudy #Giuliani's defamation lawsuit against Joe #Biden, saying he had "utterly failed" to carry his burden. #legal
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nhd.62613/gov.uscourts.nhd.62613.18.0.pdf
“Mark Meadows, #Trump’s former White House chief of staff, failed to convince a judge that his criminal case related to the 2020 election in #Arizona should be moved to federal court, which could have made it easier to have the charges dismissed.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/politics/mark-meadows-arizona-loss?cid=ios_app
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Self-inflicted #WompWomp
Via Andrew Weissmann:
What has gotten little attention is that Judge #Chutkan issued a written decision today, denying #Trump's request to keep the filing and information about the titles and position of the people referenced under seal. She rejected that in the below opinion, AND as 👉🏼Trump did not seek a stay, her decision then resulted in the public filing of the government's brief.👈🏼
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.251.0_4.pdf