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A Democratic judge and five other individuals have been indicted on charges of voter fraud, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday, shaking the political landscape of Frio County. The allegations stem from a multi-year investigation into potential vote harvesting during the 2022 primary elections. Judge Rochelle Lozano Camacho, an elected Democratic judge in Frio County, faces three counts of vote harvesting. The indictment also names her sister, a county trustee; the county’s election administrator; two Pearsall, Texas city council members; and another woman. The investigation was triggered by a complaint filed by Mary Moore, Camacho’s opponent in the Democratic...

Stephen Miller argued that a judge cannot singlehandedly strike down the president’s executive order on immigration because we “have equal branches of government in this country.”After a three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit unanimously ruled to reject the Justice Department’s request to lift a Seattle judge’s restraining order on President Trump’s immigration order this week, his senior policy adviser said that the judicial branch is “not supreme.”“The point I want to make to you, George, and the point I want to make to your listeners, is that we have equal branches of government in this...

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” reacted to the 9th Circuit Court ruling upholding the blocking of President Trump‘s executive order halting immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States senior advisor to President Donald Trump Stephen Miller said, there was no such thing as “judicial supremacy.” Partial transcript as follows: TODD: Let me start with the decision by the 9th circuit and the president himself saying to reporters that a new order may be drafted. Is that what you and others are doing right now? Drafting a new order since essentially the 9th circuit seemed to give...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vented his displeasure Monday after two Democratic-appointed federal judges reversed their decisions to retire in what appear to be efforts to stop President-elect Trump from nominating their successors. McConnell called the unusual decisions to forgo retirement following Trump’s sweeping victory last month a “partisan” gambit that would undermine the integrity of federal courts. “They rolled the dice that a Democrat could replace them and now that he won’t, they’re changing their plans to keep a Republican from doing it,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “It’s a brazen admission. And the incoming administration would...

Trump must pay $ 83.3 MILLION to E. Jean Carroll for defamation, a federal jury has ruled

BILLINGS, Mont. — A judge blocked oil and gas drilling across almost 500 square miles in Wyoming and said the U.S. government must consider climate change impacts more broadly as it leases huge swaths of public land for energy exploration. The order marks the latest in a string of court rulings over the past decade - including one last month in Montana - that have faulted the U.S. for inadequate consideration of greenhouse gas emissions when approving oil, gas and coal projects on federal land. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington appeared to go a step further than other...

The Supreme Court sent a case concerning a death row inmate, who claims he can no longer remember his crimes because of several strokes he had while in prison, back down to the lower courts to take a second look. The court had already stayed the inmate Vernon Madison's execution last January. In a 5-3 vote, Chief Justice John Roberts sided Wednesday with the liberals on the court in favor of Madison. Only eight justices had heard the case because Justice Brett Kavanaugh had not been confirmed by the time the case was argued.

LITTLE ROCK — A judge on Monday ordered presidential candidate Ralph Nader stricken from the Nov. 2 ballot, ruling that Nader backers failed to properly disclose his party affiliation while collecting signatures. Nader's supporters should have disclosed that Nader would run for the Populist Party. No specific party was listed as canvassers collected 1,286 signatures. State law requires it, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Timothy Fox ruled. Nader's campaign said it would appeal to the state Supreme Court. "We'll continue to fight in Arkansas. We think this is a mistaken decision and we'll appeal it to ensure that voters of...