Lauren Boebert

'Not working with much': Analyst tears apart Trump's 'head-scratching' legal filings

Donald Trump's lawyers have been accused of a lot of "head-scratching" legal filings as they seek to keep the former president out of criminal trouble — and a Washington Post columnist tore into them Thursday.

Recently, in an effort to argue he should be covered by presidential immunity, Trump's lawyers cited the past words of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a U.S. Supreme Court filing that highlights the dangers of presidents being subject to criminal prosecution or civil actions.

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At least two Aileen Cannon law clerks recently quit: legal analyst

Florida District Court Judge Aileen Cannon has been drawing the bad kind of attention since entering the judicial spotlight — and now it seems staffers are putting their own resumes first.

AboveTheLaw co-founder David Lat wrote Thursday on his Substack that two of her clerks recently resigned. Clerks typically focus on writing and research for the judge.

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'My president': Resurfaced video shows Lauren Boebert promise she'd never disrespect Obama

A decade-old clip of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) praising Barack Obama has been making the rounds on social media as the conservative firebrand seeks a third term in office in a new congressional district.

The Colorado Republican first attracted national notice as the owner of the gun-themed Shooters Grill in her hometown of Rifle, and she appeared on CNN in July 2014 in a remote interview with former anchor Brooke Baldwin, who asked if a sign hanging in the eatery — "proudly clinging to my guns and Bible" — was in response to an infamous remark Obama made about rural Americans, reported Newsweek.

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'Filthy hands off Trump Tower!' Frantic fundraising plea issued as fraud deadline nears

Donald Trump sent out a frantic fundraising plea centered around the possibility that Trump Tower might be seized as part of the massive New York fraud judgment leveled against him.

The former president's lawyers notified the court that none of 30 underwriting entities they approached would finance the half-billion bond he needs to pay as he appeals the fraud judgment, which means the New York attorney general's office could begin seizing his properties next week if he fails to pay by Monday's deadline.

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Trump advisers scramble to block 'crazies' from latching onto his 2024 campaign

Former President Donald Trump's campaign is reportedly working to bat away some of his most toxic supporters from being hired to help his 2024 run.

Sources tell Axios that the campaign has been trying to work around Trump's desire to bring back several controversial figures, including convicted felon Paul Manafort and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who is despised even by many MAGA diehards.

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GOP legislator horrifies colleagues by inserting their names into graphic account of rape

A Nebraska Republican legislator horrified colleagues by substituting in some of their names into a graphic account of a rape from a novel.

State Sen. Steve Halloran (R-Hastings) read an excerpt from the novel "Lucky," by Alice Seabold, during a debate over an obscenity bill but apparently tried to make a point by substituting in the name of state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D-Omaha) to graphic scenes of sexual violence, reported the Nebraska Examiner.

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Boebert brags about scoring $20 million in earmarks that came from bill she opposed

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) voted against the government funding bill, but reveled in the largess it delivered to her current Colorado district.

On March 6, Boebert cast a vote opposing a bill to keep the government open, according to Business Insider.

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Judge smacks down Trump's 'presence-of-counsel' defense in hush money trial

New York state Supreme Court Judge Juan M. Merchan ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump cannot use a "presence-of-counsel" defense at his upcoming hush money trial.

Trump has asked the court for permission to claim he committed 34 felony counts during the "presence" of lawyers and believed the actions were legal. However, Trump did not intend to relinquish attorney-client privilege as required in a traditional advice-of-counsel defense.

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'Can't even go to a theater': Boebert complains that Beetlejuice scandal was made public

Lauren Boebert launched into a pity party during a radio interview in Colorado, complaining that her antics during a performance of Beetlejuice were shared with the public.

“As far as [opposition] research, I am very clearly an open book,” she told KHOW’s Dan Caplis Show in Denver. The interview was also reported in the Colorado Times Recorder.

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'Outmaneuvered' Lauren Boebert's path to election now 'strewn with obstacles': analysis

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was thrown for a loop last week when Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) announced that he would be retiring, thus boxing her in to remaining in her current congressional district until this fall.

A report in The Guardian, which describes Boebert as being "outmaneuvered," explains that Buck's resignation triggered a special election that meant Boebert would have had to resign her current seat in order to compete in Buck's former district.

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'Trump and Putin are natural bedfellows': retired CIA officer

The Guardian has interviewed multiple intelligence experts who are predicting that a second Trump presidency would be a disaster for the United States.

Included among them was retired CIA Operations Officer Douglas London, who told the publication that former President Donald Trump's affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin was particularly troubling.

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'The fix is in': Expert breaks down 'very strange' Judge Cannon hearing on Trump docs

A recent hearing in Donald Trump's criminal case over stashed classified documents was "very strange," according to one legal expert.

Lawfare's Roger Parloff, who recently reported that Judge Cannon had created a "secret docket" in the process of overseeing the Trump case, Sunday broke down the findings of Thursday's hearing before Cannon, after he had time to "decompress."

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Democracy expert points to 'red flag signaling imminent danger' with Trump's rhetoric

Those high-profile Republicans who are twisting Donald Trump's "bloodbath" comments to be more palatable are part of the problem, a democracy expert said on Sunday.

Trygve Olson, the author of the Lincoln Democracy Institute's research project, the "Democracy Index," responded to ex-GOP governor Scott Walker's attempt to paint Trump's use of "bloodbath" as using an alternative definition about "economic disasters."

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