Democrats support the indictment of former President Donald Trump whether it has legal standing or not because convicting him is a life-or-death struggle for their political survival, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said.
“I do think it’s sort of a parallel to crossing the Rubicon, which was the moment when Roman Law was shattered,” Gingrich said on “Life, Liberty & Levin.”
“I would say that what happened was that Donald Trump came out of nowhere and was the first person to have the courage and the willpower to take on the entire corrupt, extremist establishment, and they’re fighting in the…
Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office escalated 34 charges against Donald Trump to felony by arguing the former president concocted a scheme to conceal election law violations and deceive tax authorities, the unsealed indictment showed on Tuesday.The grand jury charged the former president with falsifying business records after Trump’s reimbursement to his then fixer Michael Cohen for $130,000 in hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016 were falsely recorded as legal expenses.
But falsifying business records is normally a misdemeanor offense, unless prosecutors can show that a defendant intends to commit, aid or conceal…
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Stormy Daniels must pay nearly $122,000 of Donald Trump’s legal fees that were racked up in connection with the porn actor’s failed defamation lawsuit, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.Article content
The decision in California came at about the same time that Trump became the only ex-president to be charged with a crime. Trump pleaded not guilty in a New York City courtroom to a 34-count felony indictment accusing him of falsifying business records in a scheme to hush up allegations of extramarital affairs with Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal that broke during his first White House…
For most people, being implicated in a crime would represent the scandal of a lifetime. Especially if it’s connected to the unprecedented arrest of a former US president.
For Donald Trump, this wasn’t even the scandal of the weekend.
The trail leading to Tuesday’s history-making indictment began on the gob-smackingly eventful second weekend of October 2016.
His presidential campaign was updated by an old video in which he crudely joked about grabbing women’s genitals.
That same day, WikiLeaks begin releasing hacked emails from the Clinton campaign, in a chain of events that led to Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
That’s when…
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The federal government is backing away from setting a timeline to introduce legislation that would declare First Nations policing an essential service, but at least one regional chief hopes to see it this spring.
Ghislain Picard, a member of the Assembly of First Nations executive, said it has been fighting for improvements to First Nations policing on two fronts: securing better funding for existing services and helping to draft new legislation.
“We’ve been talking about this for years,” said Picard, one of the leads on justice and policing issues for the national advocacy organization that represents more than…
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A judge’s erroneous direction that Canadian officials should secure the release of four men from detention in northeastern Syria amounts to a “wholesale expansion” of the law, a federal lawyer told an appeal hearing Monday.
Lawyer Anne Turley said the decision created a new right to be returned to Canada, or even be rescued by Ottawa, when a citizen finds himself in trouble abroad, despite no involvement of Canada in the foreign detention.
Turley made the argument while asking a Federal Court of Appeal panel to overturn a January ruling by Federal Court Justice Henry Brown.
The Court…
Some of the problems that commonly arise relating to finances upon separation include:Hiding of assets
Bank accounts being drained
Selling off property
Bills not being paid (eg mortgages, loans, credit cards)
Lack of access to financial resources; or
Lack of knowledge about current financial positionWhen it comes time to finalize how you are going to divide your assets (referred to as a financial or property settlement), it is what is remaining that is shared. So, if money is moved, spent or wasted, what is left over is what can be divided in that settlement. There is no opportunity…