2024 Elections

The Democratic National Committee is flush with cash as the party gears up for what may be one of the most high-stakes presidential elections in U.S. history.

On Thursday, DNC chairman Jaime Harrison tweeted that, when accounting for contributions from joint fundraising committees and affiliated PACs as well as direct donations, Democrats raked in $12.3 million as of December.

University of Baltimore School of Law professor Kimberly Wehle wrote Thursday that a strict constitutionalist that follows the letter of the law would support the ruling from the state of Colorado this week to ban Donald Trump from the ballot.

Writing for The Atlantic, Wehle cited the "striking ... conservative reasoning" from Colorado's Supreme Court justices in their conclusion.

A legal defense fund set up by a Republican congressman to pay for expenses related to an ethics probe accepted a $5,000 donation from the same company that had caused the investigation to be launched.

Republican Rep. Alex Mooney (WV) is under investigation over allegations he accepted a week-long paid vacation for his family to Aruba from a direct mail company his campaign began paying for services in 2020. The vacation cost about $10,000, with much of the bill allegedly being picked up by the company.

Appearing on CNN on Thursday morning, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked about the Colorado Supreme Court ruling Donald Trump should not appear on the 20204 ballot and replied that he agreed with it.

Speaking with host Erica Hill, the attorney who served under President George W. Bush said he'd rather go to court using the case presented by the court than the defense offered by Trump's legal team.

Asked why he leans toward the Colorado ruling, he explained that he feels there is ample evidence Trump helped to incite the Jan. 6 insurrection.

"I think on the merits, yes, one consideration, one argument will be the due process one, but putting that aside, which is not insignificant, I think it's fairly clear to me that former president Trump engaged in insurrection," he stated.

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"The language of the Constitution is engaged in insurrection, and I think he meets that standard based on the findings of the trial court judge in Colorado based on the excellent work of the January 6th Congressional committee," he continued. "I think, in my mind, that threshold has been met."

"This is a difficult position for the court," he elaborated. "I think the chief [Justice John Roberts] is already wrestling with concerns about the politics, the way that the public more and more views the court as a political institution. Whatever the outcome is here ... those views will simply be amplified. So it's an interesting conundrum. I don't envy the chief, and other members of the court, quite frankly, so we will have to wait and see. It's a difficult issue."

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According to one of the top diplomats who served Donald Trump's administration, Russian President Vladimir Putin would like nothing better than for Donald Trump to be re-elected president because, as she put it, "he has his number."

The Guardian is reporting that Fiona Hill, a key adviser on Russian affairs in the Trump White House, claimed that a return of the former president to the Oval Office would ease pressure on the Russian strongman whose invasion into Ukraine has gone poorly at best.