2024 Elections

Trump got 'jealous' of his own son's popularity with MAGA base: reporter

Donald Trump Jr. has gained more political clout with his father, but that wasn't always the case.

The president-elect's namesake eldest son played an instrumental role in getting J.D. Vance added to the Republican presidential ticket, and Puck senior political correspondent Tara Palmeri told CNN that he will play a key role in recommending candidates to serve in his father's next administration.

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Justice John Roberts poised to give go-ahead to 'MAGA vision of the law': legal expert

A review of Chief Justice John Roberts' actions during the last Supreme Court session would seem to indicate that he has stopped attempting to rein in both his more rabidly conservative colleagues and chosen to go along with their far-right vision of America, according to an expert's analysis.

That is the opinion of Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern who claimed the jurist, once considered an institutionalist, now appears to be "taking the path of least resistance" by going along with Trump and avoiding blowback from the volatile former president once again headed to the White House.

"it’s easy to imagine an earlier version of the chief justice spending the next four years losing his grasp on the court’s direction and drawing Trump’s public ire. Today’s iteration of John Roberts need not fear this fate. His position of appeasement, if not outright capitulation, to a MAGA vision of the law is about to pay off in spades," he wrote.

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According to Stern, having forestalled future Trump attacks by being the guiding force behind the startling presidential immunity ruling that, in essence, gives current and former presidents freedom to do as they please, Roberts has set himself up for an easier session while making it look like he has regained control.

"At the dawn of Trump’s next term, Roberts will arguably hold more power than ever. He has reestablished himself as the leader of the court, the justice with the greatest influence over the most important opinions. The question now is how he’ll use that power in a second Trump term. Will there be a limit to what he’ll seek to allow from the second Trump administration?" Stern asked before suggesting, "How far will he and the rest of the court’s conservatives allow Trump to go? Even if no other conservative will stand athwart Trump, will the chief justice sound the alarm in dissent? Or will he rubber-stamp the White House’s most authoritarian ambitions? Roberts himself may not even know the answers yet. But his decision to take the path of least resistance to Trumpism over the past four years suggests that he will not pose an obstacle to it in the four years ahead."

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'Heads to explode': Ex-lawmaker 'stirs up everything' with controversial Biden scheme

Democrats are suddenly panicked about the prospect of replacing U.S. Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor before Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Senators have been actively discussing replacements for the 70-year-old justice, if she could be persuaded to retire before president Joe Biden leaves office, and former Democratic lawmaker Bakari Sellers floated one intriguing possibility on CNN.

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'People are going to try to do the impossible': Canada prepping for folks fleeing Trump

With Donald Trump headed back to the White House in January after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris on election day, authorities in Canada are expecting a wave of asylum-seekers.

According to a report from Reuters, officials in Canada have been prepping for the possibility the former president could end up back in the Oval Office and what that would mean for border crossings.

With the former president running his campaign on a central premise of rounding up undocumented immigrants and their extended families and forcefully shipping them out of the country, it is expected many will try and find a friendlier place to live.

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According to the report, "Canadian police and migrant aid groups are bracing for an influx of asylum-seekers fleeing President-elect Donald Trump's United States at the same time Canada deals with record numbers of refugee claimants and is trying to bring in fewer immigrants."

Noting that "people crossing from the U.S. to file claims must sneak across undetected and hide out for two weeks before seeking asylum – a potentially dangerous prospect," Abdulla Daoud, director of The Refugee Centre in Montreal, explained, "When you don't create legitimate pathways, or when you only create pathways where people have to do the impossible to receive safety, you know, unfortunately, people are going to try to do the impossible."

Loly Rico of Toronto's FCJ Refugee Centre agreed, claiming Trump will be responsible for what is expected to be a flood of people running from his administration.

"It's going to be a challenge for any refugee in the United States to feel that they belong, and that's why they will start looking what other countries can start giving them protection."

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'So clueless': Indicted Trump ally lashes out over conservative magazine's new suggestion

A former top Justice Department official indicted in the Georgia election scheme defended Donald Trump against the need for a pardon.

Jeffrey Clark, who has pleaded not guilty to violating the state’s racketeering law and attempting to make false statements, pushed back Friday morning against a column by the National Review's executive editor Mark Antonio Wright, who argued that president Joe Biden should pardon the president-elect for the crimes he allegedly committed.

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'Not entirely far-fetched': D.C. residents face prospect of Trump taking over local police

Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office, combined with his purported plans to gut the government, has the potential to disrupt the lives of D.C. residents who already live under a system that limits their rights of self-determination, according to a new report.

According to a report from Politico's Michael Schaffer, locals have long lived under a system where Congress and the president have the ability to overrule local government unlike other cities, and with a vengeful Trump returning, local citizens are looking at major disruptions to their way of life.

Among those changes is the prospect of an authoritarian-minded Trump using the local police to get his way as he tests the limits of his re-acquired power.

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According to the report, it is "not entirely farfetched" that Trump, a convicted felon in New York, will use his appointed U.S. attorney, who serves as local district attorney, to go after his enemies in D.C. of which there are many.

"Federal law also gives the president the right to temporarily take over the local police — something previous chief executives never played with," the report notes.

Schaffer adds, "...the people who work the gears of politics — the Hill staffer who needs an abortion; the political reporter with a child in D.C. public schools; the lobbyist hoping to sell her house at a profit — may soon find themselves buffeted by election results in ways that feel entirely new."

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Harris ally says there's a 'feeling of betrayal’ toward white women after exit polls

A Democratic ally of both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday that there is a “feeling of betrayal” toward white women – the majority of whom voted for President-elect Donald Trump – who she bluntly stated, “is a sexist” and “white nationalist.”

“Racism and sexism seem to be the reason,” said Melanie L. Campbell, who chairs the minority advocacy group Power of the Ballot Action Fund and also served on a committee of women who advised Biden in selecting Harris as his running mate. “White women, who were very much a part, we thought this time, would actually join forces with all women and vote for the first woman president, the first Black and South Asian woman president.”

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Why young men turned out in droves for Donald Trump

Putting abortion rights front and center in her campaign, Kamala Harris thought she found a winning formula in courting women voters.

But it was Donald Trump who found victory, running up the margins on American men -- particularly young men.

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'Keeps me up at night': Ex-GOP lawmaker fears Trump is orchestrating Fed Reserve takeover

Former President Donald Trump could potentially destroy the nation's bank with support from party loyalists in the legislative branch, a former Republican lawmaker has warned.

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) appeared on MSNBC Thursday afternoon to discuss Trump's economic plans for his second term in the White House — and what that could mean for the Federal Reserve.

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2024 Elections

'I got to see the ugliest': Ex-Trump official refuses to grovel over his past criticisms

Trump got 'jealous' of his own son's popularity with MAGA base: reporter

Justice John Roberts poised to give go-ahead to 'MAGA vision of the law': legal expert

'Heads to explode': Ex-lawmaker 'stirs up everything' with controversial Biden scheme

'People are going to try to do the impossible': Canada prepping for folks fleeing Trump

'So clueless': Indicted Trump ally lashes out over conservative magazine's new suggestion

'Not entirely far-fetched': D.C. residents face prospect of Trump taking over local police

Harris ally says there's a 'feeling of betrayal’ toward white women after exit polls

Why young men turned out in droves for Donald Trump

'Keeps me up at night': Ex-GOP lawmaker fears Trump is orchestrating Fed Reserve takeover

Incumbent Democrat Bob Casey kicked out of Senate in dramatic Pennsylvania vote

Biden hammered for saying 'We're going to be ok' after months of saying the opposite

'Straight up BS': Powerful Dem slaps back at Joe Biden blame game