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...Republican attorneys-general from 18 states warned that “the risk of partisan prosecution of presidents is real and present”, echoing Trump’s argument that cases against him are politically motivated and...
..., the Ecuadorean attorney-general said on Tuesday....
..., Rex Tillerson, his two attorneys-general, Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr, his chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mark Milley and — if I had to hazard a guess — his wife, the former first lady, Melania...
...A group of senior officials who worked in the past six Republican administrations — including ex-judge Michael Luttig and former acting US attorney-general Stuart Gerson — filed a brief in support of Colorado...
...“We’re not gonna do anything,” one official said. “The whole corner-crossing stuff is so up-in-the-air in the state.”...
...Miller would be expected to play a big hand in this along with Matt Whitaker, who served as acting assistant attorney-general during Trump’s first term after he fired Jeff Sessions, his first attorney-general...
...He would also use the Department of Justice for personal vendettas — including repeated vows to jail Bill Barr, the former attorney-general, John Kelly, his former chief of staff, Mark Milley, the former...
...Other defendants who were charged in the Georgia case include Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for Trump, and Mark Meadows, who served as the former president’s chief of staff during the election....
...Some of these ESG attacks are expected to continue. On December 18, Tennessee’s attorney-general sued BlackRock for alleged ESG malfeasance....
...The libertarian Republican Rand Paul opposes the bill on free speech grounds, as do some Democrats. Republican Mike Lee of Utah deplores it as executive over-reach....
...New capacity, as well as a slowdown in US and EU project closures, meant global coal use increased last year for the first time since 2019....
...one of the co-defendants’ associates by the state attorney-general’s office....
...And so, as you mentioned, it has become like a real political hot potato in the States. It’s a real kind of blue state, red state thing....
...Because a president in an Australian republic would be essentially a ceremonial figurehead like the queen or the governor-general, the mode of appointment was: a president of the same powers as the governor-general...
...In a letter after the proposal was issued, 24 Republican state attorneys-general urged the SEC to drop it, predicting it would “undoubtedly draw legal challenges” and “not survive this review”....
...“The battle begins in Iowa, it begins here,” Trump told the crowd assembled in Clinton, a town of nearly 25,000 on the eastern flank of the state....
...“We allege that Texas has flouted federal law by installing a barrier in the Rio Grande without obtaining the required federal authorisation,” said Vanita Gupta, associate US attorney-general....
...Even analysts from the state-owned Russian Academy of Sciences say limited capacity means key sectors of the economy are already showing “signs of a slowdown”....
...Meadows has tried to have the charges against him moved from state to federal court, arguing the accusations relate to his job as a White House official....
...Join senior leaders from foreign multinational corporations and city, state and federal officials for a day of cutting-edge content to explore the economic outlook for the US....
...by election fraud in front of a crowd of his supporters....
...This trial is to determine whether the Trumps pay upwards of $250mn in penalties and face other sanctions in the lawsuit brought by the New York attorney-general....
...Matthew Platkin, New Jersey’s attorney-general, predicts that his state will ratchet up regulation whether the companies are onboard or not. “This is not the end of history,” says Platkin....
...” in general and BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink in particular as part of their campaigns for the GOP presidential nomination....
...Progressive politicians as well as officials and experts say that there is a disconnect between the public outcry over migration and the actual number of arrivals....
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