2024 Elections

The Republican candidate who lost a Supreme Court judgeship in the 2024 North Carolina election refuses to quit.

Mark Joseph Stern spoke to Mary Harris for Slate's daily news podcast and highlighted that failed Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin is now suing to eliminate the ballots of 65,000 citizens.

Political strategist Lucy Caldwell clashed with conservative pundit Caroline Downey after she described former Vice President Kamala Harris as "vapid."

During a Sunday panel segment on Fox News, Caldwell revealed that she was "not happy" that corporations like ABC News and Meta decided to cave to President Donald Trump by settling lawsuits.

MAGAland voters who are now unhappy with Donald Trump's appointees running roughshod over the government with billionaire Elon Musk and his DOGE workers doing the most damage, got no sympathy from MSNBC's Michael Steele on Saturday morning.

From his perch on "The Weekend," the former head of the Republican National Committee noted that the plans found within the controversial far-right Project 2025 document are being enacted and those who thought before the election that it would never happen are now getting a rude awakening.

With co-host Symone Sanders Townsend pointing out that many Americans are just now finding out how dependent they are on federal employees and government policies that impact their daily lives, Steele stepped in.

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"It hurts, it hurts a lot of people, it hurts a lot of families," he offered." And you know, I know from some folks in MAGAland that I've talked to who are now sitting there going, 'Well, I didn't think, I didn't think that it would go here. I didn't think it would be like this.'"

"And I was like, 'I don't know what to tell you, boo!'" he continued while laughing and then adding, "The man told you this! What you want to do? What do you think being a dictator for one day meant?"

"Let's go back, I don't know, five years, six years," he later added. "Donald Trump has always told you what he wants to do, and he tells you because he doesn't think you can stop him. And so it was very important to understand what leveling up Project 2025 was all about."

"Keep in mind they backtracked on Project 2025 because they got called out on it," he continued. "If no one had focused on a 900-page policy paper, trust me, right now you'd be going, everybody would be going, 'Where? What Project? 2025?' But you knew. You knew, you had it."

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Just days before Donald Trump celebrates three weeks back in the Oval Office, his tariff threats and his decision to let Elon Musk and his DOGE staffers disrupt the flow of cash from the U.S. Treasury is having an immediate impact on voters.

And it is not a good one, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Donald Trump on Sunday complained that Democratic lawmakers are delaying his nominees.

The President took to his own social media site over the weekend to air his grievances against those keeping him from installing his chosen officials.

Even though President Donald Trump was elected to a second term with Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress and is fulfilling his campaign promises, one high-ranking Senate Republican isn't so sure that Democratic opposition has been quelled.

Politico's Eugene Daniels recently interviewed Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), one of Trump's biggest supporters and the longest-serving sitting U.S. senator. The 91 year-old Republican also chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will be ground zero for many of Trump's wish-list items like immigration crackdowns and Supreme Court appointments.

Before she even held his first official White House press conference, Donald Trump's latest press secretary is facing questions after a last-minute FEC filing on Thursday reportedly showed she had been hiding debt related to her failed run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022.

According to a report from Claire Heddles from NOTUS, 27-year-old Karoline Leavitt submitted revised campaign disclosure paperwork that shows she owes more than $300k that must be paid back due to campaign finance violations.

The report states that approximately $200,000 must be repaid to contributors who appear to have made donations far beyond legal limits, adding, "Those excessive contributions went unreported for years."

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According to the report, those 2022 illegal donations, by law, should have been returned within 60 days.

"Her congressional campaign committee amended 17 campaign finance reports on Thursday, noting that, over the course of three years, Leavitt took in a number of excessive contributions that she failed to report and has failed to pay back, essentially stiffing her donors," NOTUS is reporting, "The newly disclosed excessive donations essentially triples Leavitt’s campaign debt, bringing the total to $326,370 owed to vendors and contributors. (Leavitt had previously reported $105,605 in debt in a filing at the end of September 2024.)"

Using just two examples from Donald Trump's tsunami of executive orders since assuming office this week, a law professor suggested that both are flagrant violations of federal law and that tremendous damage will be done before the courts can unwind them.

In a column for the Bulwark, University of Baltimore Law School Professor Kim Wehle wrote that a complicit Supreme Court and an equally complicit GOP-controlled Congress have handed the newly-elected president the ability to do as he pleases with no restraints placed upon him.

Donald Trump's decision to issue a blanket pardon to all of the Jan. 6 rioters is not sitting well with some voters who handed him the keys to the Oval Office for a second time.

Following his swearing in, Axios is reporting that the president told his aides, "F--- it, release 'em all," thereby freeing everyone including what the conservative Wall Street Journal has labeled "cop beaters."