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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds PUBLISHED THU, JUN 6 2024 5:49 PM EDT UPDATED 31 MIN AGO Gabriel Corts @GABECORTES Kevin Breuninger @KEVINWILLIAMB KEY POINTS * Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted millions of dollars' worth of gifts over two decades on the bench, according to a new data analysis. * The figure sets Thomas far apart from his current colleagues, according to the nonprofit Fix the Court. * The ...

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George Clooney called White House to defend wife's work on Israel warrants

Academy Award-winning actor George Clooney called one of President Biden’s top aides last month to complain about the president’s criticism of the International Criminal Court’s action against Israeli leaders — a case his wife, Amal Clooney, worked on, according to three people familiar with the conversation. Clooney called Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president, to express concern about Biden’s denunciation of arrest warrants sought by ICC prosecutors for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin N ...

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Biden campaign hires Kinzinger staffer to lead GOP outreach effort

06/06/24 12:30 PM ET President Biden’s reelection campaign has hired a national Republican engagement director to lure independents and moderate Republicans away from former President Trump in the hopes of attracting a crucial swath of voters in November. The Biden campaign named Austin Weatherford, former chief of staff to ex-Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a staunch Trump critic, to the role. A Virginia native, Weatherford’s role will be to reach and invest in voters who the Biden campaign ...

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Evanston faces lawsuit over reparations payments to Black residents

June 6, 2024, 11:32 AM EDT A conservative activist group filed a class action lawsuit against a reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, claiming the initiative is unconstitutional because qualification for the program is based on an applicant’s race. In 2021, Evanston became the first city in the U.S. to implement a reparations program, offering payments to Black residents affected by discriminatory zoning in place from 1919 to 1969. The group Judicial Watch is representing six non-Black p ...

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Pro-Trump network Newsmax faces subpoena for documents as bankruptcy lawyers deepen probe of Rudy Giuliani's finances

Jun 6th, 2024, 12:24 pm Lawyers for the creditors of Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that they plan to subpoena conservative, pro-Trump network Newsmax for documents to shed light on the scope of its financial relationship between the former NYC mayor, his companies, and legal defense funds as his bankruptcy case trudges on. The notice of intent from the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, largely identical in form and function to other subpoenas issued in the case thus far, seeks to unco ...

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President Biden Delivers Remarks at the D-Day Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony

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Senate Republicans block bill to protect access to contraception

(NBC News) Senate Republicans blocked legislation Wednesday that would enshrine a federal right to access contraception, sinking the Democratic-led measure. The vote on the Right To Contraception Act was 51-39, falling short of the 60 votes needed to defeat a filibuster and move forward in the chambers Republicans said the bill is unnecessary as the use of birth control is already protected under Supreme Court precedent.

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'Deflated buffoon' Trump is 'psychologically' damaged by his felony convictions: expert

(Raw Story) The dark cloud of 34 felony convictions in a Manhattan courtroom has done deep psychological damage to Donald Trump that he will never be able to shed after the public humiliation. That is the opinion of former federal prosecutor Kenneth McCallion in an interview with Salon's Chauncey DeVega where he also said there is no way the former president will get the conviction tossed on appeal even if he can get it before the Supreme Court.

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GOP support for allowing felons to be president rises after Trump conviction

(The Hill) Support among Republican voters for allowing convicted felons to be president has risen after former President Trump’s guilty verdict in New York last week, a new poll finds. The survey, conducted by YouGov, comes less than a week after a jury convicted Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, of all 34 felony counts in his hush money case. Fifty-eight percent of GOP voters said in the new survey convicted felons should be allowed to become president if they are elected. YouGov noted that just 17 percent of Republicans held that opinion in April.

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10 hrs ago - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds PUBLISHED THU, JUN 6 2024 5:49 PM EDT UPDATED 31 MIN AGO Gabriel Corts @GABECORTES Kevin Breuninger @KEVINWILLIAMB KEY POINTS * Supreme Court ... (CNBC)

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