Lawyer says ex-DOJ official acted within scope of duties
The Senate report focuses on former President Donald Trump receiving advice from Jeffrey Clark (center), then the head of the Justice Department’s civil division, and others to take drastic actions to subvert the election results. Then acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen was asked to investigate discredited claims of election fraud in Georgia. Yuri Gripas-Pool/Getty Images…
Five things for Fulton 19: First trials start October for 2020 election interference
Booking photos from the Fulton County conspiracy case charging Donald Trump and allies with trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. Top row, from left Jeffrey Clark, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Michael Roman, Ray Smith, David Shafer, Sen. Shawn Still. Center row, from left, Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro. Bottom…
Balance of power at stake as judge sets pre-Thanksgiving timeline for Georgia redistricting ruling
The U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Georgia is based in downtown Atlanta. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder This article is part of U.S. Democracy Day, a nationwide collaborative on Sept. 15, the International Day of Democracy, in which news organizations cover how democracy works and the threats it faces. To learn more, visit usdemocracyday.org. For nearly two weeks, lawyers in a 19th…
With two weeks until the money runs out, Congress grinds to halt on spending bills
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks to reporters in the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 14, 2023, as action in the chamber on spending bills got sidetracked ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — Amid rising tensions and an approaching hard deadline, the U.S. House…
Judge rules Trump’s 2020 Georgia racketeering case and 16 others severed from October trial
Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee ruled Sept. 14 that Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell will be tried separately from Donald Trump and 16 other co-defendants in the 2020 presidential election interference case. File Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool A Fulton County judge ruled Thursday that 17 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, will…
A men’s movement takes reins in a nationwide quest to end abortion
The men of Operation Save America close out the group’s weeklong anti-abortion protest in front of the Nathan Deal Judicial Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 22, 2023. (John McCosh/Georgia Recorder) Wendell Shrock doesn’t believe in condoms. “We should leave the uterus to God,” the street preacher from Tennessee tells States Newsroom, in front of…