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Georgia GOP vice chairman who claimed 2020 voter fraud fined for voting illegally 9 times

Georgia Republican Party's first vice chairman, Brian K. Pritchard, committed voter fraud by casting a ballot while serving probation for felony check forgery.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Administrative Law Judge Lisa Boggs of the State Board of Elections ordered Pritchard to pay a $5,000 fine and receive a public reprimand.

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'Why didn’t he do it?' Columnist calls out Trump for being 'ridiculous braggart'

Donald Trump is bragging again that he will improve the Affordable Care Act — but a New York Times columnist reminded the public he's already passed on a chance to do so.

In a Truth Social post this week, the former president denied President Joe Biden's claim that he intends to end Obamacare, and instead insisted he would make the health care law "much, much, much better for far less money."

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Evicted Mike Lindell says he didn't pay rent to make it 'easier' on landlord

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell explained his eviction from a Minnesota warehouse by suggesting he didn't pay rent as a favor to his landlord.

A judge this week said Lindell would be evicted for owing First Industrial, L.P. more than $217,000.

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'Uphill battle': Legal expert pulls apart Trump's effort to throw out Fulton County case

A judge is considering Thursday if Georgia election subversion charges against Donald Trump should be thrown out on First Amendment grounds, but a legal expert doesn't expect him to be let off the hook.

The former president's attorney Steve Sadow argued Thursday in a Fulton County courtroom that Trump's conspiracy theories about voter fraud were political speech and therefore protected by the U.S. Constitution. But CNN legal analyst Elie Honig expects the same result as the one that met a similar effort in federal court in Washington, D.C.

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Lawyers panic after under-oath statement by ex-Trump DOJ official

Jeffrey Clark — a senior official at former President Donald Trump's Department of Justice — may have committed a major verbal error while testifying under oath at his disbarment hearing.

The Associated Press reported that Clark, who was acting head of the DOJ's civil division in the waning days of the Trump administration, reportedly had inappropriate and unsanctioned contact with Trump behind the backs of his superiors.

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'Nazi judges!' Trump's Georgia hearing triggers heated meltdown from right-wingers

Right-wing figures reacted to a Georgia hearing involving Donald Trump's effort to dismiss his RICO case with outrage over the way the legal system was treating former president.

At a Thursday hearing in Fulton County, Trump's attorney, Steve Sadow, claimed that Trump should not be prosecuted for an election interference conspiracy because of his First Amendment free speech rights. Georgia prosecutors, however, said the case was about more than free speech.

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MTG lobs 'completely backward' new excuse for Trump's 'find me the votes' call

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Thursday pushed a new excuse for former President Donald Trump's infamous phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he demanded Raffensperger "find" him the votes he needed to overtake President Joe Biden.

Appearing on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast, Greene claimed that Trump simply believed that a large batch of ballots had been lost in the mail and that he wanted Georgia's top election official to seek them out.

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'The usefulness of lies': Prosecutor shreds Trump's First Amendment argument in Georgia

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney argued Thursday his Georgia election racketeering case should be dismissed because, as the prosecutors summarized it, “he lied over and over and over again.”

It was a flabbergasted state attorney Donald Wakeford who spoke out against the First Amendment challenge brought by Trump lawyer Steve Sadow, who argued that the case should be dropped because it attempted to criminalize free speech, and cited the false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen as proof.

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'Suppression of evidence': Liz Cheney issues warning to SCOTUS on Trump immunity case

Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney took aim at the U.S. Supreme Court and warned the justices to move quickly in their consideration of Donald Trump's claims of presidential immunity in regards to criminal charges that he interfered in the 2020 election.

Trump's legal team will go before the Supreme Court on April 25 to argue that he's immune from the Jan. 6 charges, which were leveled against the former president last year in special counsel Jack Smith's case in Washington D.C.

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Judge Cannon has a new way to hobble Mar-a-Lago documents case: ex-prosecutor

Judge Aileen Cannon could hamstring special counsel Jack Smith's case against Donald Trump by unilaterally disqualifying loads of evidence.

The U.S. District Court judge has raised eyebrows over her oversight of the case with rulings that seem to favor the ex-president who appointed her, and a former prosecutor said she could stack the deck against prosecutors by blocking them from using evidence contained in grand jury investigation files transferred from Washington, D.C., to the Florida classified documents case, reported Newsweek.

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Flood of hate that hit Colorado election chief after bid to ban Trump from ballot revealed

Ever since she expressed support for the unsuccessful effort to keep Donald Trump off the state ballot for the 2024 election, Colorado's Secretary of State has seen an escalation in violent online threats.

Jena Griswold was brought in as a co-defendant when a group of Colorado residents sued the state to keep Trump off the ballot. Since then, according to a report from Rolling Stone which analyzed data provided by her office, threats targeting her increased by more than 600 percent.

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Trump tells Judge Cannon 'he’s got scheduling conflicts now': report

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan ruled Monday that Donald Trump's criminal trial for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's hush money case against the ex-president will begin on April 15.

In a Wednesday filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, Trump’s lawyers argued that the April 15 date likely will cause a conflict with the potential start date for his classified documents case trial.

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'I’m sure Trump will compensate him': Experts praise John Eastman’s disbarment ruling

California State Bar Judge Yvette Roland on Wednesday ruled that former Donald Trump lawyer John Eastman violated ethics rules when he helped to orchestrate the ex-president's ploy to overturn the 2020 election, Politico reports.

Per the report, "Though Eastman may appeal Roland’s decision, including to the state Supreme Court, the ruling forces his law license into 'inactive' status while any review is pending, meaning he can no longer practice law in California."

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