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The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday pertaining to whether states can throw Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential ballots if they determine he violated the 14th Amendment — which essentially disqualifies insurrectionists from holding office. The former president shouldn’t be too worried, however, as the conservative-controlled court seems unlikely to permit what Chief Justice John Roberts described as a “pretty daunting consequence.” The justices did not seem very concerned with the question of whether…

The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the nonviolent rallies that categorized most major protests over the past few decades.What set Jan. 6 apart was the president of the United States using his cellphone to direct an attack on the Capitol, and those who stormed the Capitol being wired and ready for insurrection.My co-authors and I, a media and disinformation scholar, call this networked incitement: influential figures inciting large-scale political violence via social media. Networked…

America is facing its greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. I know, journalists exaggerate sometimes. But as rock critic Greil Marcus said of punk rock half a century ago, this is actually happening. And if sanity doesn’t prevail, this crisis will affect all of our lives, whether we are paying attention to it or not. Is this really “unprecedented,” as journalists like to say? Here’s the evidence. There has never been a major presidential candidate on trial, let alone charged with 91 criminal counts…

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said in an interview that she has faced threats since issuing her decision to remove Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot on Thursday. “We have received threatening communications, those are unacceptable,” Bellows told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Friday. “I certainly worry about the safety of people I love, people around me and people who are charged with protecting me and working alongside me. That being said, we’re a nation of laws and that’s what’s really important.…

Maine joins Colorado as the second state to eject the former president from the 2024 ballot The Secretary of State of Maine has removed Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential primary ballot, citing an interpretation of the 14th amendment that would bar insurrectionists from holding office. Maine joins Colorado as the second state in the U.S. to block Trump’s presidential bid after Colorado’s Supreme Court ejected him earlier this month after ruling that the former president engaged in…

Close allies of Donald Trump have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court decision blocking the former president from the state’s Republican primary ballot. The petition was filed by the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative nonprofit, on behalf of the Colorado Republican Party. Jay Sekulow, a former longtime lawyer for Trump who defended him in his Senate impeachment trial, is chief counsel at the ACLJ. Last week, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a 4-3 decision…

DENVER —  The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the favorite for the Republican nomination can remain in the race.The decision, from a court whose justices were all appointed by Democratic governors, marks the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has…

Tucker Carlson took a break from filming Twitter videos to emcee for the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa on Friday, where he interviewed several Republican 2024 candidates, including former Vice President Mike Pence.  Pence, who was threatened with death by a violent mob supporting his former boss Donald Trump on Jan. 6, once again demonstrated that he lacks the backbone to accurately describe the violent riot in the Capitol as an attempted insurrection.  “What was that? Do you think that was an…

Redfall creative director Harvey Smith believes the range of issues that developer Arkane faced during the development of the vampire game would have "tanked" a different studio. Appearing on the Iron Lords podcast, Smith listed off the many real-world events that transpired during the development of Redfall, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the January 6 storming of the US Capitol, murder hornets, aliens, and power outages in its local community of Austin, Texas, and much more."This team has been through…

Authorities are working to identify the funders of the Brasilia riots through the online payment tool used to finance Bolsonaro's election-denial movement. Police say donations made to Bolsonaro supporters through instant payment platform Pix will be central to investigators' efforts to uncover who orchestrated…