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Apr 11 2024
News
COVID and 2020 protests spell doom for medium-sizes cities
“STAY HOME ST LOUIS” the downtown traffic signs read during the pandemic. The locals obeyed then. And they are still staying out of downtown St. Louis today. “The office district is empty,” the Wall Street Journal recently reported, “with boarded up towers, copper thieves and failing retail — even the Panera outlet shut down. The city is desperately trying to reverse the ‘doom loop.” Yet
Washington ExaminerDec 24 2023
News
Trump asks appeals court to block 2020 election prosecution
But Trump’s attorneys insist all the steps he took to have himself declared the victor in the 2020 presidential contest amounted to acts he took on behalf of the nation rather than himself. “Under our system of separated powers, the Judicial Branch cannot sit in judgment over a President’s official acts,” Missouri-based lawyer John Sauer and other members of the Trump legal team wrote. “The
PoliticoApr 19 2024
Perspectives Blog
How to Rebuild Trust in Elections According to Liberals and Conservatives
Over a three year period (2020-2023), Braver Angels—the largest grassroots group working to bridge the political divide—convened a group of Democrats and Republicans in equal numbers to create a report of bipartisan solutions for elections. Read the full report here.
The group agreed with three principles:
Voting should be easy. Cheating should be hard. Every citizen should Clare AshcraftDec 22 2023
Opinion
Trump’s 2020 Bullying of Michigan Election Officials Is Blatant Authoritarianism
You’ve heard the old saw, “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” A modern maxim might go like this: If you’re still not convinced Donald Trump is a literal authoritarian, then you're the one who is deranged. (Sadly, based on current polling, this description seems to apply to a lot of Republicans.)
The latest evidence comes to us via The Detroit News, where a 2020 phone
Matt LewisApr 10 2024
Opinion
These Nine Men Voted for Biden in 2020. How Do They See Him Now?
In 2020, men were almost evenly divided between Donald Trump and Joe Biden — a remarkable shift from 2016, when they backed Mr. Trump by 11 points. That swing was decisive enough to put Mr. Biden in the White House. Another shift in men’s votes may well determine the outcome of this election, too.
For the latest Times Opinion focus group, we gathered nine men who voted for Mr. Biden in
New York Times (Opinion)Mar 01 2024
News
Fulton judge to rule in two weeks on Fani Willis disqualification motion in 2020 election case • Georgia Recorder
A Fulton County judge on Friday said he plans to rule in the next two weeks on whether to remove District Attorney Fani Willis and her team of prosecutors from the high-profile 2020 election interference case that has been sidetracked by a series of contentious court filings and court hearings. Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Friday that he intends to mull over legal questions and
Georgia RecorderDec 19 2023
News
Washington official fined $500 for voting in 2020 election twice
An elected Washington, D.C., official was among six people who were fined by the city this week after voting in the 2020 elections twice. Vanessa Rubio, who was elected as advisory neighborhood commissioner, was fined $500 by the city after voting in the 2020 presidential election in Washington, D.C., and Maryland. The $500 fine was higher than the other perpetrators due to Rubio's status as
Washington ExaminerApr 10 2024
News
To win the election, Trump is changing how elections are run
When former President Donald Trump clinched the Republican Presidential nomination last month, his win was taken by many as both a hard-fought campaign victory and the conclusion of a long-standing inevitability. Although much of today's GOP exists as a de facto extension of the MAGA movement, Trump's dominating primary performance cannot be attributed to his personal sway over the
The Week - NewsDec 18 2023
News
ANC commissioner fined $500 for voting twice in 2020 election
Vanessa Rubio, an elected official in D.C. who serves as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, voted twice in the 2020 general election, according to an investigation carried out by the D.C. Board of Elections. Rubio was fined $500 and will need to pay it by Jan. 8. “We also take judicial notice of the fact that Ms. Rubio is an elected official,” the board said in a statement. “We see fit to
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