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Trump's hush-money sentencing will still happen in September despite his new immunity superpowers, New York legal experts predict
Trump wants his hush-money verdict set aside. But a legal doctrine called "harmless error" is more …
Laura Italiano
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Richard Lewis, 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' star and comedian, dead at 76
Richard Lewis was perhaps best known for roles in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and "Curb Your Enthus…
Olivia Singh
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Pelosi said lawmakers should 'just go to the beach and forget the whole thing' if voting rights legislation failed, book says
Pelosi clashed with the White House over what she saw as lack of urgency to pass the bill and even …
Grace Panetta,Brent D. Griffiths
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Young Black activists are done waiting their turn for political office. They're taking on the 'John Lewis generation' of elder lawmakers who they say are out of touch.
Activists in the Black Lives Matter generation say it's time for elder lawmakers to pass the torch.…
Elvina Nawaguna
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Trump's 'disrespectful' behavior during E. Jean Carroll trial turned the jury against him and saddled him with an $83.3 million bill, legal experts say
A jury ordered Donald Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll more than $80 million in damages following a con…
Erin Snodgrass,Kelsey Vlamis
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Trump plans to testify in E. Jean Carroll's trial. His only move would be to apologize and beg for forgiveness, experts say.
Donald Trump plans to testify in E. Jean Carroll's defamation trial. Experts say he should repent i…
Jacob Shamsian
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The judge in Trump's E. Jean Carroll trial actually showed restraint when bench-slapping his attorney, former judge says
One former federal judge said Alina Habba's conduct in court was so unprofessional that she'd creat…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Bernie Sanders says the Arizona Democratic Party was 'exactly right' in censuring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema over her vote to preserve the filibuster
Sanders in recent days has floated backing progressive primary challengers to Democratic senators w…
John L. Dorman
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Trump said Republicans will never be elected again if Democrats pass their voting rights bill
The "Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act" seeks to expand voting access and introduce reforms relate…
Morgan Keith
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's filibuster speech has reenergized progressive efforts to find someone to primary and oust the Arizona Democrat
Grassroots groups in Arizona are working feverishly to find someone to challenge and unseat Democra…
Kayla Epstein
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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries blasts Republicans for their opposition to voting-rights legislation: 'What happened? Was it the election of Barack Obama?'
"Voting rights now is a partisan thing," Jeffries said, criticizing Republicans for being "largely …
John L. Dorman
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Trump just lost his star lawyer in his Stormy Daniels trial and E. Jean Carroll appeal
Joe Tacopina on Monday filed notices to the court saying he was no longer representing Trump in two…
Matthew Loh
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Congressman Al Green wants fair Texas maps for people of color and he's willing to sue for them
Rep. Al Green of Texas wants to ensure voters of color are not erased by maps that create two addit…
Gwen Aviles
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Want to hear something really scary? We're living through the death of democracy, but thankfully there's a solution.
America's democratic norms are slowly being eroded. Unless Democrats do something to stop this auto…
Michael Gordon
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Donald Trump can't dodge his NY fraud verdict by moving Trump Org or giving it to, say, Ivanka: experts
Experts walk us through the Grinchiest scenarios and explain why Trump can't just transfer his comp…
Laura Italiano
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'We can't just rally every four years:' Young people of color stand up to voter suppression in Florida and Texas
Florida and Texas lawmakers introduced voting rights legislation organizers say are designed to dis…
Gwen Aviles
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'Old battles have become new again': Thousands march in Washington, DC, and across the US in push for voting-rights legislation
Marchers pushed for lawmakers to pass key bills that have stalled in Congress - the For the People …
John L. Dorman
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House passes major bill to restore the Voting Rights Act with no Republican support
The bill named for the late Rep. John Lewis takes on the Supreme Court's treatment of voting-rights…
Grace Panetta
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Congressional Democrats take a machete to the Supreme Court's election jurisprudence in new voting rights bill
A bill named for John Lewis would undo Supreme Court decisions weakening the Voting Rights Act, the…
Grace Panetta
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Democratic Sen. Mark Warner would support 'small carve-out' on filibuster to pass voting-rights legislation
"If we have to do a small carve out on filibuster for voting rights - that is the only area where I…