All posts tagged "Rhode Island"

This MAGA candidate takes his mojito shaken, not stirred.

Victor Mellor, a Jan. 6 rioter running for U.S. Congress in Rhode Island, was revealed Wednesday to be a foreign agent for Communists in Cuba, according to government files and a new report.

“Mellor has quite the resume,” Bulwark reporter Joe Perticone quipped. ...

A sweeping defeat of Trump's immigration policies will likely end up in the Supreme Court, a legal expert flagged.

Last week, a federal judge in Rhode Island struck down four Trump policies that froze immigration benefits for nationals from 39 countries, attorney Rachel Cohen said on Legal AF. Cohen is now expecting that challenge to land in the Supreme Court.

"I would be shocked if it didn't go all the way up to the Supreme Court," Cohen said, referring to the case Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The administration entered final judgment earlier this week and has already filed a notice of appeal, Cohen added....

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a presidential candidate's lawsuit to block former president Donald Trump from Rhode Island’s ballot in 2024, court records show.

Republican hopeful John Anthony Castro challenged Trump’s eligibility under the 14th Amendment, arguing the former president aided an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to court records.

Trump’s team celebrated the dismissal of the longshot case as a victory against election interference....

A Massachusetts man allegedly shot and killed his former girlfriend's lover through a bedroom window after seeing her inside with him, and then turned the gun on himself.

The state of Rhode Island announced Saturday that it has two confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne disease chikungunya, which has been spreading rapidly in the Caribbean.

Rhode Island’s governor has declared May 1 a “Day of Reason” to recognize the state’s nonbelievers.