Five takeaways from a bruising primary season
The primaries in Florida and New York this week marked the final major nominating contests of 2022, and the country’s attention is now poised to shift to the general elections that will determine control of Congress for the next two years. Primaries for both parties stretching from March through this week offered up some key hints about the two main parties and their voters, as well as what the coming fall campaign season could look like. Here are five takeaways from the 2022 primaries: The GOP is still Trump’s party — and 2020 is still top of mind
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One of former President Trump’s main claims about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago is being undermined by Friday’s release of a key affidavit. Trump has pushed the narrative that he and his lawyers were cooperating with the Department of Justice’s inquiries about documents from his time in the White House. This, he claims, means that the Aug. 8 raid on his Florida estate was gratuitous. But the affidavit that persuaded a judge to grant the search warrant tells a different story. Even in heavily redacted form, the affidavit points out that there was a prolonged pr
Read MoreFederal appeals court upholds Jim Crow-era Mississippi law restricting voting rights for felons
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a Mississippi law restricting voting rights for certain convicted felons that was first crafted during the Jim Crow era. In a 10-7 decision, the court ruled that though Section 241 of the Mississippi state constitution was originally written for racist reasons in 1890, it is no longer racist in effect. “It is uncontroverted that the state constitutional convention was steeped in racism and that ‘the state was motivated by a desire to discrimi
Read MoreDeSantis suspends four school board members after grand jury investigation into Parkland shooting
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) suspended four members of the Broward County School Board on Friday after reviewing a grand jury investigation into the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. DeSantis filed an executive order suspending Patricia Good, Donna Korn, Ann Murray and Laurie Rich Levinson from office based on recommendations by the Twentieth Statewide Grand Jury. The jury recommended that the board be suspended due to incompetence, negle
Read MoreJan. 6 defendant who beat officer with Trump flag sentenced to 46 months in prison
A man who beat a Washington, D.C., police officer with a Trump flag during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was sentenced to 46 months in prison on Friday. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Howard Richardson received the sentence after pleading guilty earlier in the year to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers. Richardson waved his flagpole after entering a restricted area of Capitol grounds, according to the Department of J
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