A group of Louisiana health care providers and reproductive rights advocates are challenging the state’s unprecedented action of classifying abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol to the state’s list of controlled substances. Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed Louisiana Act 246 into law in May — a choice which effectuated the most extreme legal action yet...
At least one government official was unamused by Kamala Harris‘ appearance on Saturday Night Live last night. Senior Republican Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr said in a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) that NBC violated the agency’s “Equal Time” rule. “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s...
A 54-year-old Indiana man pleaded guilty Friday for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Troy Allen Koen entered the guilty plea to the charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a press release. He’s scheduled to be...
A New York man who grabbed an officer’s pepper spray canister in a tunnel at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots will spend more than a year in federal prison for the offense. Troy Weeks, 38, was sentenced to 21 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and was ordered to pay...
In something not entirely unlike an “all hands” call to action, Republican attorneys general from 20 different states are now trying to convince a federal court of appeals that the Mar-a-Lago documents indictment against Donald Trump should remain dismissed. The 33-page amici curiae — or friends of the court — filing was submitted late Friday...
A pro-Donald Trump advocacy group was recently fined by the Federal Election Commission for failing to disclose some of its donors. In 2021, the nonprofit government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint against Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action for allegedly keeping regulators in the dark about donor information for a...
A legal group founded by late evangelical minister Pat Robertson has joined the fray in an effort to convince a federal court of appeals that Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago indictment should remain dismissed. In their 39-page amicus curiae – or friend of the court – brief filed late Friday afternoon, the American Center for Law &...
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is probing comments made by Donald Trump at an event in the battleground state, where he reportedly told attendees that former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney wouldn’t be much of a “war hawk” if she had “nine barrels shooting at her.” “The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is looking into whether Donald...
The battle over the dismissal of the indictment in the Mar-a-Lago documents case is heating up in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, as a group of conservative amici curiae, or friends of the court, on Friday argued to maintain the pro-Donald Trump status quo. In their 35-page brief in support of the...
The FBI has reportedly been apprised of several election-related emails sent by a group affiliated with pro-Donald Trump bedding product businessman and election denialist Mike Lindell. The emails in question were sent to election officials throughout the country and are said to contain misleading information, ABC News reported early Friday morning, citing unnamed “federal officials.”...