An Illinois judge has removed former US President Donald Trump from the state’s ballot on the basis of the 14th Amendment’s so-called “insurrectionist ban,” CNN reported. The decision has been halted, giving Trump a short time to appeal. The judge’s decision on Wednesday (local time) comes as a similar anti-Trump challenge from Colorado is pending before the US Supreme Court, which is widely expected to not agree to the arguments that Trump is barred from office.
Evan Vucci, the chief photographer of the Associated Press (AP), captured what could well be the picture that will emblematize for posterity the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania yesterday.
President Joe Biden clinched the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic Party’s nomination in primaries held on Tuesday. His predecessor Donald Trump will have won the Republican nomination by the end of the day. The Biden-Trump rematch has, thus, cleared its final qualifying threshold.
By Mayank Chhaya The Supreme Court’s decision to hear former President Donald Trump’s expansive immunity claim hands him a temporary victory as he seeks to delay his legal trials well after the November election. Since the justices agreed to consider Trump’s claim of immunity on April 22 in the context of his prosecution for his […]
Former President Donald Trump won the Iowa Republican caucuses on Monday, solidifying his position as the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination. With the victory, he is one step closer to a rematch with President Joe Biden who defeated him in 2020. The win also laid to rest any lingering questions about his hold over the GOP and the potency of his right-wing message.
What President Joe Biden left unsaid after “What a sick….” referring to former President Donald Trump during a particularly stinging speech on the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6 insurrection made it even more powerful.
Groups of voters from Illinois and Massachusetts filed motions on Thursday to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot. The two states have been added to the list of states where Trump faces a challenge to his candidature under the 14th Amendment’s insurrectionist ban.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) could seal the fate of former President Donald Trump if his staying on the ballot is decided by more Democrat-controlled states following Colorado and Maine as he would ultimately need to carry the eight swing states plus the electoral college votes.
Former President Donald Trump will risk losing the 2024 elections, even if nominated by the Republican Party, if he focuses too much on his drama of the 2020 elections being ‘stolen’ from him as the voters’ odds stack up against him, tiring out on his political drama and theatrics. Add to this his legal woes in four jurisdictions that will pop up any time next year to haunt him and may make the voters to change their minds. Republican from South Carolina, Senator Lindsey Graham, has warned Trump to not “look back” on the 2020 elections if he becomes the Republican presidential nominee, saying that he thinks Trump risks losing in 2024 if he focuses on the past.
The GOP has made the first-responder move against the Colorado Supreme Court decision with Senator Thom Tillis, Republican from North Carolina initiating legislative moves to give the US Supreme Court sole power to review presidential candidate qualifications.His move is in response to a controversial Colorado Supreme Court’s decision that said former President Donald Trump is disqualified from the presidential ballot in the state.
Indian American presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has pledged to withdraw his name from the Colorado primary ballot unless former President Donald Trump is reinstated. Ramaswamy’s move comes after Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday barred Trump from running in the state’s presidential primary, ruling he had engaged in “insurrection” on January 6, 2021.
Donald Trump became the first former or incumbent American President to be struck off the re-election ballot for insurrection. In other words, he is not fit to run for election.
Former President Donald Trump arrived on Monday morning at a courthouse in lower Manhattan, New York City, where a civil trial against him is scheduled to begin. This lawsuit, brought by the New York attorney general’s office, alleges that Trump, his adult sons, their businesses, and Trump Organization executives were involved in fraudulent activities.
Former US President Donald Trump and his then deputy Mike Pence have engaged in a war of attrition over the events that unfolded in 2020, and their respective roles in controlling the Capitol Hill insurrection in 2021 in the wake of Joe Biden being elected President.
A US House of Representatives panel has voted to make six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns public. On Tuesday evening, the Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee voted 24-16 to publish the documents, with all all Republicans opposed to the decision.
A select committee of the US House of Representatives voted on Monday to refer to the Justice Department four criminal charges against former President Donald Trump in relation to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
Former US President Donald Trump might have pre-empted his arch rival Ron DeSantis, the Florida Governor and his once VP Mike Pence, by announcing his presidential bid for the 2024 elections, but he has failed to muster the Republican Party’s support for his candidacy which seems to have cratered.
A US Congressional Committee decided in a surprise vote on Thursday to issue a subpoena to former President Donald Trump for his testimony and documents regarding the January 6 rioting by his supporters on the Capitol to prevent a joint session from certifying Joe Biden as the next President.
Kashyap “Kash” Patel, the controversial top aide to former President Donald Trump and also a close associate, said he feels “forsaken and vilified” by the Indian American community at a time when he has been “unfairly targeted by the US justice department for the colour of his skin”.
Trump was scheduled to be questioned in a case wherein New York’s AG Letitia James has alleged a decade-long pattern of financial misstatements on documents used by the Trump Organization to win hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks and bank loans.
Mayank Chhaya- In one of the most memorable lines in the iconic sitcom ‘Seinfeld’, George Costanza, played by Jason Alexander, tells Seinfeld, played by Jerry Seinfeld, “Jerry, just remember it’s not a lie if you believe in it.” In the aftermath of the stunning first public hearing of January 6, 2021, insurrection instigated by then […]
Ritu Jha- If anyone has been bashed by millions like President Donald Trump, it’s Vinson Xavier Palathingal, an Indian- American who proudly carried the Indian flag at Trump’s Jan. 6 “Save America” rally. He thought he would be representing his ethnic diversity, as well as his love for America, but it was all in vain. […]
Coming out firmly in support of his Republican presidential rival candidate Donald Trump, Indian American Vivek Ramaswamy has reiterated that he will withdraw from the ballot in states that remove the former President from running in the primaries. Ramaswamy’s vow came after Colorado and Maine barred Trump recently from running in the states’ presidential primary for his role in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.
By Frank Islam- Our American democracy is on trial. The jury in that trial is we, the people. Our verdict will determine democracy’s future. Over the past year, much of the political news has been dominated by stories about Donald Trump’s four indictments, the 91 counts against him, and the trials they’ve precipitated. These trials […]
President Joe Biden said on Sunday that in addition to the “significant business” done at the just-concluded G20 in India such as the rail-ship economic corridor extending from India to Europe, he was able to raise the “importance of respecting human rights … the vital role (of) civil society and a free press” in his bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
