Republicans in a key battleground Texas county are debating a proposal today that would cut Election Day polling sites by 30% for the midterm elections. The move has sparked massive protests across the state. Alicia Menendez – in for Nicolle Wallace – is joined by Jake Traylor, Texas State Rep. Vikki Goodwin, and Norm Eisen for analysis on Deadline White House.
The Trump Administration has successfully sown confusion on mail-in voting despite legal battles over a restrictive Trump executive order being far from over. Norm Eisen, co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, joins the table to share how his organization is fighting back in court.
Biden-era prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are still using wild-man tactics. The post Salvaging the Sovereign District appeared first on The American Conservative .
Law Salvaging the Sovereign District Biden-era prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are still using wild-man tactics. (Janet Mayer/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) Jamie McDonald’s got his work cut out for him. Sworn in on July 29 as the new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, he inherits one of the DOJ’s great reclamation projects: making the Southern District sovereign again. And, despite the best efforts of his predecessor Jay Clayton—now director of national intelligence—recent prosecutions show the job’s not close to finished. “Sovereign” was once the word for the…Open
MS NOW’s Vaughn Hillyard obtained new video showing Trump's DOJ unable to prove its claim that 15,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in Nevada. Norm Eisen, co-founder of Democracy Defenders Fund, joins The Weeknight to discuss.
The Washington Post reports that in a rare move, U.S. attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro has convened a special grand jury. It is unclear why. MS NOW Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin, Democracy Defenders Fund Founder Norm Eisen and former FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Feinberg join Alicia Menendez to discuss more.
Ex-Olympian David Hearn was cleared in the Reflecting Pool case, but his lawyers are still fighting to uncover what prosecutors told the grand jury—and weighing legal options to stop Trump’s “continued harassment.” Hearn’s attorney Norm Eisen joins to discuss.
President Trump is publicly pushing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to reverse course on a dropped felony vandalism case tied to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, even as prosecutors say the damage was caused by a contractor, not the defendant. Trump took to Truth Social on Friday to share photos he said came from a freelance […] The post Trump presses Pirro to reopen Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism case after felony charge dropped appeared first on American Almanac .
President Trump is publicly pushing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to reverse course on a dropped felony vandalism case tied to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, even as prosecutors say the damage was caused by a contractor, not the defendant. Trump took to Truth Social on Friday to share photos he said came from a freelance photographer and to urge Pirro to reconsider her decision to dismiss the indictment against former Olympian David Hearn, a 67-year-old canoeist who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Hearn had been charged with one count of felony destruction of property, a charge that carried a potential ten-year sentence, after U.S. Park Police alleged he grabbed and tugged at a loose section of the Reflecting Pool's…Open
Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn was indicted Thursday for destroying property after he allegedly reached into Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool , per a bench warrant reviewed by Axios. Why it matters: It's the first indictment prosecutors have secured since President Trump asserted that vandals had damaged D.C.'s reflecting pool shortly after it underwent a $14 million upgrade. What they're saying: "Today is about accountability for damaging a national resource, a national treasure, and that is the reflecting pool," U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro told reporters Thursday. - "A grand jury has returned a felony indictment against a defendant, David Hearn, for felony destruction of property,…
'A violent effort, to rip up the sealant'
A nonprofit organization led by prominent Trump critic Norm Eisen quietly assisted Democratic attorneys general and prosecutors in efforts targeting supporters of President Donald Trump […] Source