The election is over. The process has begun to transition to the next administration. What must be preserved is the Constitution of the United States. The cornerstone to the success of the Republic is the rule of law. Without it we are no different than any tinpot government in some dark corner of the world. [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a civil antitrust lawsuit Thursday to block credit card giant Visa’s acquisition of Plaid. According to the DOJ, Visa is a “monopolist in online debit services, charging consumers and merchants billions of dollars in fees each year to process online payments.” Plaid is a “successful fintech firm” that [...]
A judge rejected the defense’s request to move the trial of the four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd to another venue Thursday. Defense attorneys for Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng, the four police officers charged in Floyd’s death, had requested a change in venue last [...]
Election-related lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign in Georgia and Michigan were dismissed Thursday, while a third in Pennsylvania was successful. The lawsuits in Georgia and Michigan alleged that election officials had allowed ballot fraud, but provided no evidence to support the accusations. In Georgia, the campaign attempted to have 53 ballots from Chatham County dismissed [...]
Italy’s lower house of parliament passed a bill Wednesday that extends anti-discrimination protection to women, disabled people and members of the LGBTQ+ community, making violence against these groups a hate crime. Existing hate crime legislation only protects people from racial, religious and ethnic discrimination. Under this law, people convicted of hate crimes against these newly [...]
Mississippi voters Tuesday adopted Ballot Measure 2, which would remove the electoral vote requirement for elections to statewide offices, including the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor and secretary of state. Prior to the amendment, the state constitution of 1890 required statewide office candidates to secure both popular and electoral majorites under Sections 140 and [...]
Puerto Rico went to the polls and voted for statehood Tuesday. Puerto Ricans were asked, “Should Puerto Rico be immediately admitted into the union as a state?”. With over 97 percent of the results in, over 52.27 percent of voters voted affirmatively. This is the sixth time that Puerto Rico has voted on the question [...]
Colorado voters Tuesday passed Proposition 114, the Gray Wolf Reintroduction Initiative, paving the way for gray wolves’ return to the Western Slope. Proposition 114 authorizes the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to create and implement a plan to reintroduce and manage gray wolves on designated lands west of the continental divide, with “paws on the [...]
Virginia voters approved a state constitutional amendment on Tuesday that establishes a bipartisan redistricting commission responsible for drawing congressional and state legislative districts. The redistricting commission will include eight members of the General Assembly and eight citizens of the Commonwealth. The eight legislative commissioners will be appointed by leadership in the state Senate and the [...]
The Supreme Court of New Zealand ruled Wednesday that the US may extradite German-Finnish internet entrepreneur and political activist Kim Dotcom to face criminal copyright-related charges. In 2005, Dotcom founded a business comprised of various companies providing cloud storage and file-sharing capability for internet users. The US alleges that one of those companies, Megaupload, “encouraged third parties [...]
