The NYT gets this headline right. Based on his part in the scheme for fake electors to submit fraudulent returns in 2020 — one of the few schemes NOT involving a municipal election — ...
At the Lectern:
On Friday, the California State Bar Court’s three-judge Review Department came to the same conclusion as a hearing judge over a year ago and recommended the disbarment of ...
NYT:
Scarcely 24 hours after a Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota was assassinated in her home, Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, posted a pair of politically charged messages mocking the ...
Politico:
One year after his criminal conviction in the Manhattan hush money case, Donald Trump is still fighting to shed his felon status.
The president’s personal lawyers appeared before a ...
AP:
A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking former President Joe Biden to New Hampshire Democrats last year was acquitted Friday of voter ...
Violence directed at innocent people is abhorrent and political violence even more so because it is an attack not just on people but on the institution of democracy itself and an attempt to change ...
NYT:
A former New York State Assembly candidate used fake donations and forged signatures to fraudulently inflate the share of public matching funds he received in last year’s election, federal ...
Democracy Docket:
A senior official in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) held a briefing for a far-right anti-voting group on Thursday, according to an email sent by the group. The virtual ...
To be clear, these are just the campaign finance schemes. And the sentence announced today: probation.
The post “Santos’s Treasurer Avoids Prison for Her Role in His Schemes” appeared first on ...
Evan Osnos, in the latest issue of the New Yorker, reviews the state of American oligarchy and the First Family’s use of the Oval Office as a private moneymaking machine.
One small excerpt:
Even ...
Bloomberg News out this morning with an analysis of the legislative landscape for deepfakes in the electoral process.
The post “Deepfake Election Laws Spread Amid Court Challenges” ...
Is anything more predictable these days than the North Carolina Supreme Court?
The post North Carolina Supreme Court, on 5-2 Party Line Vote, Allows (Pending Appeal) Republican Party Takeover of ...