Tag: Election
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Court bars Trump from state ballot over Capitol attack
The ruling makes Trump the first presidential candidate in US history to be deemed ineligible for the White House under a rarely used provision of the US Constitution that bars officials who have engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” from holding office. The court concluded that the US Constitution bars the frontrunner for the Republican nomination…
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‘Calculated act of terrorism’: Proud Boys leader gets 22 years jail
Enrique Tarrio was given the longest sentence so far handed down in connection with the January 6, 2021 riots despite not being present at the Capitol Building that day. “This was a calculated act of terrorism,” federal prosecutors said on Tuesday during a sentencing hearing in US District Court for the District of Columbia. “He…
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Trump has mugshot taken at US jail
Trump – inmate no. P01135809, according to Fulton County Jail records – spent about 20 minutes on Thursday inside the jailhouse, where authorities had said they would take his mug shot. That represents a first for Trump, who did not have to sit for a photograph when answering charges in his three other criminal cases.…
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Trump lawyer Guiliani surrenders over election charge
Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and New York City mayor, was ordered to pay a $US150,000 ($A233,950) bond and not to intimidate any of his 18 co-defendents or witnesses in the case, according to court papers. “This indictment is a travesty,” Giuliani told reporters after his jail appearance. “This is an assault on the constitution.”…
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Trump says he’ll release report on election ‘fraud’ after latest charges
Trump made the announcement on Tuesday in a post on his Truth Social media app. Since his defeat in 2020, Trump has repeatedly made false claims that the election was marred by widespread fraud. Those claims have been rejected by courts, state reviews and members of his own administration. He faces a new set of…
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Trump pleads not guilty to trying to overturn election
“This is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in America,” Trump said before boarding his plane to return to New Jersey after the court hearing. Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he orchestrated a plot to try to overturn his election loss in what US prosecutors call…
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Trump indicted over attack on Congress
The four-count indictment alleges Trump conspired to defraud the US by preventing Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory and to deprive voters of their right to a fair election. The former US president has been ordered to appear before a federal magistrate judge in Washington on Thursday. The latest charges stem from Special Counsel…
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SA voice vote delayed amid national referendum debate
The government had previously planned to have elections in September with the state body operating by the end of the year. It says the revised timing to March will also allow more time for people to enrol to vote and to consider nominating for a position. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher said the clear advice…
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US militia leader gets 18 years jail for Capitol invasion
“For decades, Mr Rhodes, it is clear you have wanted the democracy of this country to devolve into violence,” US District Judge Amit Mehta said. “You are not a political prisoner, Mr Rhodes,” he said, adding that he believes Rhodes represents an “ongoing threat” to the country. Rhodes, a former army paratrooper turned Yale-educated lawyer,…
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Fox in the far right henhouse
The jurors were chosen. The packed court room was waiting for the lawyers’ opening statements in the defamation case launched more than two years earlier by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News. Then, without warning, the judge announced the two parties had agreed to settle. And what promised to be six weeks of the biggest…