Trump requests delay on documents trial until after election
The decision by former President Trump’s legal team to seek a long delay of his trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case is injecting fresh volatility into the 2024 presidential race. The filing from…
I'm more of a commenter than the type to post articles I've read - but I'm curious what everyone thinks about this situation. To me, it's 1) practically an admission of guilt because an innocent person would expect to be vindicated and it would help them win in an election and 2) another attempt to obstruct justice because he's hoping a Republican (or himself) would be president after the election and pardon him.
Thoughts?
The Supreme Court’s big new religion decision in Groff v. DeJoy, explained
The Court’s decision in Groff v. DeJoy repudiates a line in a 1977 Supreme Court decision that pretty much everyone hates.
The gist:
Nearly half a century ago, however, in Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977), the Supreme Court announced that an “undue hardship” exists if accommodating such a request would require an employer to “bear more than a de minimis cost.” The Latin phrase “de minimis” refers to a burden that is so small or trifling as to be unworthy of consideration.
Pretty much everyone involved in this case, including all nine justices, agree that this “more than a de minimis cost” standard is wrong. As Alito writes, “in common parlance, a ‘hardship’ is, at a minimum, ‘something hard to bear.’” So an employer shouldn’t be able to show an undue “hardship” merely by showing that they will be hit with a trifling expense.
Groff repudiates this much-loathed line from Hardison. And it replaces Hardison’s “more than a de minimis cost” framework with a new rule, which requires courts hearing cases about religious accommodations to ask “whether a hardship would be substantial in the context
The Supreme Court on Thursday restricted how colleges can use race in admissions decisions, in a decision that struck down two programs.
President Joe Biden is ready to take full political ownership of the U.S. economy -- a reflection of the White House belief that inflation is fading, job growth is solid and voters need to know about it.
The Supreme Court rejected the independent state legislature theory, but did so without giving courts free rein to dominate legislative rulemaking.
I'll admit, I was somewhat worried about this one.
The World Bank says many years of financial support are needed as London hosts a major conference.
Donald Trump tells Fox News that he couldn't give back subpoenaed documents because his golf shirts were mixed in.
In public, OpenAI is calling for stronger AI guardrails. But documents show the company lobbied to weaken EU regulation
A federal judge has approved a protective order to keep former President Trump from disclosing sensitive information in his classified documents case.
When Donald Trump responded to his latest indictment by promising to appoint a special prosecutor if he’s reelected to “go after” President Joe Biden and his family, he signaled that a second Trump term would fully jettison the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence. “I will appoint ...
It’s bad enough not to get a clean debt bill, but it’s worse to impede electric transmission issues as part of the bargain.
Former President Donald Trump and his allies are claiming a federal law enacted in the wake of the Watergate scandal and a decade-old case involving former President Bill Clinton gave him the right to take any documents from the White House after losing his bid for re-election.
A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday there was no reason for Moscow not to destroy its enemies' undersea communication cables given what he said was Western complicity in the Nord Stream pipeline blasts.
Not quite US political news, but hey, everything is political now. Also, relevant, since I use the internet.
Inflation at lowest rate in 2 years
The consumer price index rose at its slowest pace in two years in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday.
An FBI source supposedly claimed an executive at the Ukrainian gas firm recorded phone calls with Joe and Hunter Biden relating to bribery allegations.
