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Donald Trump and 16 other co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case will be tried separately from lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, the judge in the case has ruled.
“Defendants Chesebro and Powell will join each other at trial, however, the other 17 defendants are severed from these two. Additional severances may follow. All pretrial deadlines will proceed as scheduled without a stay of proceedings,” Judge Scott McAfee at the Superior Court of Fulton County wrote in a ruling issued on Thursday.
The move comes after Mr Chesebro and Ms Powell invoked their right to a speedy trial, the judge noted.
This comes as Mr Trump celebrated the “best polls ever,” writing on Truth Social that they were “rarely shown on television. Leading by 50 and 60 points. Just like they don’t like showing our big Rally CROWDS, they don’t like showing our GREAT POLL NUMBERS. WE HAVE RIGGED ELECTIONS, AND RIGGED TELEVISION!”
Meanwhile, Mr Trump celebrated Mitt Romney’s retirement plans in a gloating post where he called it “fantastic news for America” that the Republican senator will not be seeking a second term.
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Show latest update 1694709046 From failed presidential candidate to Trump’s Republican nemesis: The rise, fall and rise again of Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney is leaving politics. Again.
Utah’s junior senator announced on Wednesday that he would not seek a second term. Mr Romney, 76, noted to reporters that he would be well into his 80s by the end of his next six years in office were he to run again, an otherwise innocent remark that may as well have been a shiv to the sides of the two frontrunners for the 2024 Democratic and Republican nominations.
Ever a creature of the political establishment, Mr Romney announced his move in an interview with The Washington Post, eschewing his hometown papers despite having just spent the entire month of August back in Utah. Concurrently with the interview’s publication, he released a short video message addressed to Utahns on Twitter.
The GOP centrist stalwart was in true form as he announced his retirement. In the Post interview, he derided his own party’s voting base, accusing them of falling for a “populist demagogue” message in either Donald Trump or his would-be replacement, Ron DeSantis.
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Failed presidential candidate to Trump nemesis: The fall and rise of Mitt Romney Utah Republican failed to beat Obama in 2012 but made history in 2020 by becoming first senator to support impeachment of a president from his own party, writes John Bowden
John Bowden 14 September 2023 17:30
1694708146 VIDEO: Nancy Pelosi uses suggestive hand gesture to describe Kevin McCarthy
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Gustaf Kilander 14 September 2023 17:15
1694707246 Federal judge rules DACA programme for childhood undocumented ‘Dreamers’ is illegal
A federal judge in Texas has again ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, which protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as youngsters, is illegal.
Judge Andrew Hanen, of the Southern District of Texas, ruled that DACA violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which sets out how agencies make regulations.
The ruling does not impact anyone currently protected under DACA, but the judge banned the government from approving anyone else for it.
“To be clear, neither this order nor the accompanying supplemental injunction requires the (Department of Homeland Security) or the Department of Justice to take any immigration, deportation, or criminal action against any DACA recipient, applicant, or any other individual that would otherwise not be taken,” Judge Hanen wrote.
Texas and eight other states had sued to end the Obama-era DACA programme and the ruling is now expected to be appealed to the US Supreme Court for a third time.
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Federal judge rules DACA programme for childhood undocumented ‘Dreamers’ is illegal Ruling likely to be appealed to US Supreme Court, which would rule on program for third time
Graeme Massie 14 September 2023 17:00
1694706127 Meadows withdraws emergency motion to stay the proceedings
Mr Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has withdrawn his emergency motion to stay the proceedings in the Georgia election interference case in Fulton County after Judge Scott McAfee severed the case of ex-Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro from the rest of the defendant.
“Mr. Meadows wishes to withdraw his pending requests, presented in his Emergency Motion for Stay Pending Appeal and for Expedited Review, see ECF No. 4, for a stay of the Remand Order, or in the alternative, for an injunction against the State’s prosecution of Mr. Meadows pending appeal,” the motion states.
Gustaf Kilander 14 September 2023 16:42
1694705446 Why Trump’s DOJ could help Biden with House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry
A rule on impeachment inquiries put in place by the Justice Department during Donald Trump’s administration could help Joe Biden, according to a report.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Tuesday that Republicans would open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden without taking a vote.
However, this goes against a declaration by Mr Trump’s Department of Justice that a formal vote must be taken before any such inquiry can begin, according to Politico.
That ruling was made in January 2020 as then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Democrats would investigate Mr Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
The four-times indicted former president was historically impeached twice, the first time being in December 2019 for which Senate Republicans acquitted him.
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Graeme Massie 14 September 2023 16:30
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Gustaf Kilander 14 September 2023 16:15
1694703646 How two US senators ended up in the crosshairs of a Georgia grand jury
Several current and former elected officials – including Georgia’s two former Republican senators – are on a list of prominent Donald Trump allies who narrowly avoided criminal charges in the state’s sweeping racketeering case against him.
The unsealed report from a special purpose grand jury tasked with investigating Trumpworld attempts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results revealed a much wider picture of the subsequent criminal case against the former president and his 18 co-defendants.
That report – the product of an eight-month investigation separate from an Atlanta grand jury’s indictment – revealed that grand jurors recommend criminal charges against 39 people for nearly 160 counts of violations against more than a dozen state laws.
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How two US senators ended up in the crosshairs of a Georgia grand jury Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue narrowly avoided criminal charges surrounding Trump’s post-election scheme, writes Alex Woodward
Alex Woodward 14 September 2023 16:00
1694702436 Fulton County prosecutors will reveal 30 unindicted co-conspirators to Trump and other Georgia defendants
Fulton County prosecutors will share the identities of 30 unnamed and unindicted co-conspirators listed throughout a sweeping criminal indictment targeting alleged effort from Donald Trump and his allies to overturn 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.
Attorneys for co-defendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, Trump-linked attorneys implicated in an alleged criminal enterprise that unlawfully rejected the former president’s loss, have asked a judge to compel prosecutors to reveal those names with them.
During a hearing in Atlanta on 14 September, prosecutors with the Fulton County District Attorney’s office agreed to share those names with the defendants, a practise that Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said is an “otherwise fairly routine part of the discovery” process as the case heads to trial.
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Georgia prosecutors will reveal unindicted co-conspirators to Trump and co-defendants Prosecutors will privately share the identities of more than two dozen unnamed people in the RICO case
Alex Woodward 14 September 2023 15:40
1694701846 Jan 6 rioter compares herself to Jesus as she is sentenced to 30 months in prison
A January 6 rioter has compared herself to Jesus after she was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for her involvement in the Capitol insurrection.
Yvonne St Cyr, 55, was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 months in jail, 36 months of supervised release, a $1,000 fine and $2,000 restitution to the Architect of the Capitol following her conviction on two felony counts of civil disorder and several misdemeanours.
After the sentence was handed down, she immediately took to Facebook to claim that she now knows how Jesus felt.
“I understood what Jesus felt like when he was in the garden of Gethsemane praying and felt so alone,” she said, according to KTVB.
She then launched a Facebook Live where she stated that “the spirit” assured her that she was not going to go to prison – but that if she did, it would give her “plenty of time to write a book”.
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Jan 6 rioter compares herself to Jesus as she’s sentenced to 30 months in prison Yvonne St Cyr still insists she ‘did the right thing’ when she stormed the US Capitol on 6 January 2021
Amelia Neath 14 September 2023 15:30
1694701051 VIDEO: Pence refuses to say if he would dine alone with a female VP
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Gustaf Kilander 14 September 2023 15:17
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