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Trump asks Supreme Court to reject Jack Smith's petition to keep DC trial on track

Attorneys for Donald Trump have asked the Supreme Court to reject a request from special counsel Jack Smith to decide if the former president has immunity from prosecution for his actions leading up to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

In a petition earlier this month, Smith took the unusual step of trying to bypass a federal appeals court, which could delay Trump's election subversion case for months.

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Trump spent years calling for political candidates to be stricken from ballots

What goes around has come around for former President Donald Trump, who spent years arguing then-President Barack Obama and other Democrats didn't qualify for a place on American electoral ballots.

That's the latest reminder from the New York Times' "Trump whisperer" Maggie Haberman, published on the heels of a historic Colorado Supreme Court ruling banning Trump from the state's presidential ballot.

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Unsealed warrant for Guiliani associate Lev Parnas makes revelations about Ukraine scandal

A heavily redacted application for a search and seizure warrant was made public Tuesday detailing the request to search nine electronic devices belonging to Rudy Giuliani's former associate Lev Parnas on Oct. 21, 2019, shortly before he was indicted. The warrant was released after an application by the New York Times.

Parnas helped Giuliani connect to Ukranian figures in an attempt to dig up dirt on President Joe Biden's son, Hunter. He was convicted on several charges, including fraud and campaign finance violations. Biden at the time was considered Donald Trump's biggest election rival.

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SCOTUS justice appointed by Trump has already argued ex-presidents can be jailed

Former President Donald Trump is hoping that the United States Supreme Court, which features three justices he appointed, will rescue him from criminal charges by buying his argument that what he's accused of were official acts by a president of the United States, and thus immune from prosecution.

However, Paul Rosenzweig, the deputy assistant secretary for policy at DHS during the George W. Bush administration, writes in The Bulwark that Trump could wind up disappointed with at least one of his own justices.

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Charges dropped after woman accuses Students for Trump founder of pistol-whipping her

The founder of Students for Trump will not face trial after he was charged for allegedly hitting a woman with a pistol.

Records obtained by Axios showed that Ryan Fournier was charged with misdemeanor assault late last month following a confrontation with a woman thought to be his girlfriend in North Carolina.

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'Story of a cover-up': Expert expects this Trump trial will now be first heard

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg could end up leading the charge of prosecutors who’ve accused Donald Trump of criminal conduct — and that may not be a bad thing, a Harvard University law professor contends.

Mounting delays in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal election interference case could push that trial past Bragg’s March 25 court date, when Trump will face charges that he falsified records to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, writes former federal prosecutor Lawrence Tribe.

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'Incompetent dumpster fire': GOPer apologizes for helping elect Michigan party chair

Conservatives in a key swing state are tearing their hair out over an “incompetent dumpster fire” GOP party leader who could tip the scales against Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, a new report states.

Michigan Republicans are furious about the leadership of Kristina Karamo, whose opponents say she has pushed the state GOP to “the brink of bankruptcy” by building up more than $600,000 in debt, according to a new CNN analysis.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene refloats 'national divorce' after Trump booted from Colorado ballot

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) doesn't want to live in a country where Donald Trump can't become president.

Greene took to social media on Wednesday and once again suggested that America needed a "national divorce" to separate red states from blue states, Newsweek first reported.

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'No question': Biden declares Trump an ‘insurrectionist’ after Colorado ruling

President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared Donald Trump to be an insurrectionist, but said it would be up to the courts to decide if that disqualifies him from running for office again.

Biden made the remarks from Joint Base Andrews while traveling to Wisconsin after being asked about the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to bar Trump from the ballot for participating in an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

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'I voted for him': Ex-Trump supporter behind lawsuit that axed him from Colorado ballot

One of the plaintiffs who filed a Colorado lawsuit to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot actually voted for him in the 2020 election he lost.

Krista Kafer, a longtime Republican who was censured by the Arapahoe County Republican Party for her role in the case, appeared Tuesday night on CNN to discuss the ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that upheld a lower court's finding that Trump engaged in insurrection and was thus disqualified from holding elected office.

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'Idiotic': GOP senator proposes cutting funds for states that bar Trump from ballot

Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis announced late Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation to slash federal funding for states whose lawmakers or judges disqualify presidential candidates from the ballot, as Colorado's Supreme Court did with former President Donald Trump in a landmark ruling.

Tillis (N.C.) said in a statement following the decision that "regardless of whether you support or oppose former President Donald Trump, it is outrageous to see left-wing activists make a mockery of our political system by scheming with partisan state officials and pressuring judges to remove him from the ballot."

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'Married man's plus 1': Trump raises eyebrows by attending event with lawyer not Melania

Sure, there are men in robes and someone getting the pants beat off him, but can Donald Trump not tell the difference between an ultimate fighting championship match and his own civil court trial?

This is the burning question spurred by an X video of the former president strutting into a UFC match in Las Vegas Saturday with his attorney instead of his wife.

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Why Supreme Court justices would be 'fools' to reverse Colorado ruling: columnist

The Supreme Court should uphold the Colorado case disqualifying former President Donald Trump from running again under the 14th Amendment, wrote Amanda Marcotte for Salon — not just because it is the constitutionally correct decision, but because it's one that ultimately benefits the Republican Party.

"The reality is we're facing a situation never seen before in the United States," wrote Marcotte. "A shameless insurrectionist is running for president while under 91 felony indictments. To add to this historic situation, the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday banned Trump from appearing on the state's Republican presidential primary ballot. The 4-3 decision follows the clear language of the Constitution's 14th Amendment barring those who 'have engaged in insurrection' from running for office."

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