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Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in Georgia election case

Sept. 29, 2023, 3:54 PM EDT / Updated Sept. 29, 2023, 7:45 PM EDT ATLANTA -- Scott Hall, one of the 18 defendants charged along with former President Donald Trump for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia, pleaded guilty Friday. Hall is the first defendant to enter a plea in the case. Under the terms of an agreement with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office, Hall pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges and will be sentenced to five yea ...

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Mike Lindell Says Vendors 'Calling Me Up' as MyPillow Faces Financial Ruin

9/29/23 at 7:38 AM EDT MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has said that he has had to reassure vendors repeatedly that his company is not on the verge of collapsing because of pending lawsuits, financial issues and his credit line decreasing. Lindell, one of the most prominent pushers of 2020 election conspiracy theories, said vendors are very nervous after Fox News settled with Dominion Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million in April. The network had repeated false claims that the company helped ...

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GOP senators say they won't stop Democrats from replacing Feinstein on Judiciary Committee

Sept. 29, 2023, 5:14 PM EDT WASHINGTON — Top Republican senators said Friday they won’t try to prevent Democrats from replacing the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on the Judiciary Committee after the vacancy left Democrats without a majority on the key panel. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, told NBC News that “there’s no doubt in my mind” Democrats will be able to fill her spot on the panel once there is a successor appointed to her Senate sea ...

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Anti-Abortion Lawyer Wants Names of People Who Donated to 9 Texas Abortion Funds

A Texas lawyer is trying to get the names of donors to nine abortion funds in the state, as well as information on every abortion the funds may have assisted with since September 2021, when the state's bounty-hunter law took effect. He's seeking the identities of thousands of people in Texas and across the country in a move that advocates say could threaten the operations of the non-profit groups, which are already struggling to raise enough money. The effort isn't likely to be successful becau ...

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DOJ charges IRS consultant with allegedly leaking Trump, wealthy individuals' tax info

September 29, 2023, 4:24 PM The Justice Department announced on Friday charges against a Washington, D.C., IRS consultant for allegedly leaking tax information associated with former President Donald Trump and thousands of other wealthy individuals to two separate news organizations. 38-year-old Charles Littlejohn was charged via a criminal information with one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information -- indicating he is likely set to plead guilty to the charge. ...

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Senator Dianne Feinstein has died at 90 years old

(ABC) Senator Dianne Feinstein has died at 90 years old, ABC7 Insider Phil Matier has confirmed. Her career was one of many firsts. She was the first woman president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the first woman mayor of San Francisco, and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California. "Dianne Feinstein, right from the start, was an icon for women in politics," said former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Senator Chuck Schumer adds, "She's a legend. A legend in California as the first woman senator. A legend in the Senate. She was the leader on so many different issues."

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Three weeks ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would make an 'interim' choice

(NBC News) September 10 -- As three high-profile California Democrats vie to replace retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" that he would not appoint any of them to the seat, should it become vacant sooner than expected. “Yes. Interim appointment. I don’t want to get involved in the primary,” Newsom said. “It would be completely unfair to the Democrats that have worked their tail off. That primary is just a matter of months away. I don’t want to tip the balance of that.”

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Hardliners Plot to Oust Kevin McCarthy

(Political Wire) “A contingent of far-right House Republicans are plotting an attempt to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker as early as next week, a move that would throw the chamber into further disarray in the middle of a potential government shutdown,“ the Washington Post reports. “Members of the far-right faction of the party are coalescing around nominating a member of McCarthy’s leadership team, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), to be the next speaker if they can successfully oust McCarthy, according to those people. The members think Emmer is more attuned to their concerns and will better deliver conservative results.”

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The Republican Party's terrible, no good, very bad day.

(Signal Press) It was that kind of day for Republicans in the House of Representatives, and for Speaker Kevin McCarthy. First of all, the Senate, including most of the Republican members, have shown the way toward working out a deal to avoid a government shutdown. Then, right down the line, the witnesses in the impeachment hearings unanimously testified to absolutely nothing that would lead to any conclusion of wrongdoing on the part of the President.

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'Ass-backward impeachment': House GOP mocked over evidence-free impeachment stunt hearing