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Fujifilm’s X100 series of cameras is all the rage right now thanks to going viral on TikTok and the most recent model is so rare that you’ll struggle to buy one, but we know how you can try.  The Fujifilm X100VI Limited Edition is on the way, but the Japanese company says that “due to unprecedented demand” it will be sold by way of a special ballot. In the UK there are just 110 cameras up for grabs with 300 in the US albeit without a ballot system. That’s a small percentage of the 1,934 that have been…

The Supreme Court on Monday restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol riot. The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots. That power resides with Congress, the court wrote in an unsigned opinion. The outcome ends efforts in Colorado, Illinois, Maine…

The nation's highest court handed the former president another victory on Monday, ruling unanimously on the 14th Amendment case The Supreme Court has ruled that states cannot unilaterally implement the Constitution’s 14th Amendment anti-rebellion clause to bar individuals from appearing on state ballots. The decision benefits one person specifically this election cycle: Donald Trump.  Trending In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court overturned a ruling by Colorado’s…

Four years after an overhaul of Colorado’s oil and gas rules that was meant to cool conflicts over drilling, a draft bill that would phase out new permits for wells is running up the temperature. Fanning the heat even more are ballot proposals that could restrict efforts to boost renewable energy. Gov. Jared Polis said he hoped a law approved in 2019 would end the state’s “oil and gas wars” by tightening regulations and putting protection of public health and the environment front and center. But growing concerns about…

The court will be weighing arguments over whether Trump is disqualified from reclaiming the White House because of his efforts to undo his loss in the 2020 election, ending with the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.The case marks the first time the justices will be considering a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again.It sets up precisely the kind of case that the court likes to avoid, one in which it…

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday in the case over whether states can toss Donald Trump off their ballots. Much of the discussion centered around a wildly inane legal question: whether America’s president qualifies as “an officer of the United States.” The case will review Colorado’s decision to disqualify Trump from its ballot on the grounds that he committed “insurrection” by inciting the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as lawmakers were preparing to certify President Joe Biden’s…

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in a Colorado case about whether former President Trump’s deep involvement in the deadly events of Jan. 6, 2021, should disqualify him from running again.Sadly, I think it’s a good bet that the court’s conservative majority will side with Trump and allow his name on the ballot. It’s the least fraught way out for the court, mired in scandals of its own making and undoubtedly loath to throw more fuel on the raging election-year American partisan political…

I recently surmised that in considering former President Trump’s eligibility to run for office under the 14th Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court will seek a national solution that applies to all 50 states. That dictates a reversal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s disqualification of Trump for engaging in insurrection, on grounds that preclude other states from following suit.This case is among the rare instances in which the court probably should factor broad social and political issues into its opinion. And Chief Justice…

Jan. 10, 2024 3 AM PT To the editor: It’s difficult to hear non-lawyer journalists and pundits pontificating on questions raised regarding Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. They should read the Colorado Supreme Court’s opinion disqualifying former President Trump from the ballot, which provoked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. (“Trump is dangerously unfit for office. But leave him on the ballot so voters can give him the boot,” column, Jan. 8)The Colorado justices answer all the important questions, each in the…

More than any U.S. Supreme Court case in decades, former President Trump’s appeal of the Colorado decision disqualifying him from the state’s primary ballot combines huge political moment with a scarcity of guiding law. For the court, which announced last week that it would hear the case on a warp-speed schedule, that is a precarious combination that exposes it to accusations of political bias.So how will the court rule? I think it will be loath to permit a patchwork result in which Trump appears on the ballot in some…