Republican Politics
Texas Makes Legislative Comms Secret In Prelude To Redistricting Battles
A new Texas law will prevent the public from seeing the communications of state legislators as the state prepares for the next wave of redistricting, the Dallas Morning News reports. The new law was passed last month and will place all communications that relate to legislating under privilege. That will also include records between legislators and…
Read MoreHunter Biden Hits Trump Over Investigation Threats: ‘F*ck You, Mr. President’
Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President and 2020 candidate Joe Biden, has a few simple words on President Donald Trump’s threats to investigate him: “Fuck you, Mr. President.” In a New Yorker profile published on Monday, Hunter Biden detailed his response to Trump’s push for the Justice Department to investigate his ties to…
Read MoreDon’t Look At Us! French ‘Not Responsible’ For Memes Spawned By Ivanka Vid
The French presidential palace released a statement clarifying its rationale for posting a video of Ivanka Trump interjecting in a conversation among world leaders, including British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron. The French government also brushed off responsibility for the memes that were spurred by the footage. “(The moment) took place in the…
Read MoreLeigh Corfman’s Lawyers Say Roy Moore ‘Likely Failed’ His Own Polygraph Test
Lawyers representing Leigh Corfman, the woman who accused 2020 Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her when she was fourteen and he was an adult, said on Monday that Moore had “likely failed” the polygraph test he’d taken in an attempt to discredit Corfman and his other accusers. In Corfman’s defamation lawsuit against Moore,…
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