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Immigration is one of the hottest hot button issues going into the 2024 US presidential election. It has divided Americans, and the Republican party continues to go to extremes on the matter, with some 81% of GOP voters in the Iowa primary agreeing with former president Donald Trump’s description of immigrants as “poisoning the blood [...]

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Former President Donald Trump will stay on Colorado’s ballot as a state court judge ruled against disqualifying him from the 2024 presidential primary ballot on Friday. The decision comes as part of a series of lawsuits challenging Trump’s candidacy under the US Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. While Denver District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace ordered Colorado’s [...]

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New Jersey governor Phil Murphy used his public, taxpayer-funded expense account to spend almost $12,000 at events at MetLife Stadium in northern New Jersey, including a Taylor Swift concert, according to records reviewed by POLITICO this week. The expenses started accumulating when Murphy took office in 2018, but have not grown since 2019. POLITICO obtained [...]

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On Friday, New Mexico District Judge Fred T. Van Soelen rejected a Republican challenge to the state’s congressional map that argued the map favors Democratic candidates. The case was in the New Mexico County of Lea Fifth Judicial District Court. Soelen concluded that the congressional map does not violate Article II, Section 18 of the [...]

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A Polish government official Friday wrote on X that seven people have been arrested and charged by Poland’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) as part of an investigation into a scandal involving irregularities in the issuance of Polish visas. The scandal was reported by Polish news outlet Onet, who claims to have a Ministry of Foreign [...]

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The presidents of Chile and Mexico held a joint press conference Sunday marking the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Chilean coup where General Augusto Pinochet ousted democratically-elected President Salvador Allende. The  presidents’ appearance followed an initially peaceful march which later saw clashes between civilians and police. On September 11, 1973, Pinochet launched a military coup [...]

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This article is the fourth in a series covering attacks on the rule of law. The rule of law is a political philosophy premised on the promise that all citizens, leaders, and institutions are accountable to the same laws, guaranteed through processes, practices, and norms that work together to support the equality of all citizens [...]

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