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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court returned lower court rulings and stated that a former president has absolute immunity for his core constitutional powers.

Supreme Court sends Trump case back to lower court, giving former president limited immunity

TheDailyBeast

The Supreme Court released a slew of new rulings on Friday morning, but, once again, none of them included the decision weighing heaviest on Americans’ minds—whether Donald Trump should be granted king-like immunity for his criminal indictments. Friday marks 114 days since the case was accepted by the high court—an inexcusable amount of time to rule on something so consequential to the country, a top legal expert tells The Daily Beast. Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, said Friday it’s clear that the Supreme Court, which has operated with a comfortable conservative majority since Trump’s presidency, is...

What the Hell Is Going on With the Supreme Court’s Trump Ruling?

New York State

ABC News

Hours after the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on presidential immunity, former President Trump moved to have his New York hush money conviction tossed out.

Following Supreme Court ruling, Trump moves to have NY hush money conviction tossed

Daily Mail

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that she plans on impeaching the six conservative Justices on the Supreme Court for their ruling in Donald Trump 's presidential immunity case.

AOC threatens to impeach all six conservative Supreme Court Justices

The New Republic

The Justice Department will no longer be an independent authority on the law, thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Donald Trump’s immunity case Monday. Instead, it will be an arm to be leveraged by the Oval Office, with open communication enabled between the federal law enforcement agency and the presidency for all future investigations.Chief Justice John Roberts slipped the allowance into his majority opinion, as the justices ruled 6–3 in Trump’s favor along ideological lines. In a quiet sentence, Roberts argued that the fresh take on the executive branch relationship would help the president carry out his constitutional duties.“The...

Supreme Court Immunity Ruling Destroys Independent Justice Department

At least 30 people are dead and more than 100 were left injured after multiple suicide bombings were carried out in Nigeria, sources said.

At least 30 dead, more than 100 injured after multiple suicide bombings in Nigeria

Georgia State

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Coffee County, GA

Douglas, GA

Daily Coffee Press

A 49-year-old woman from Douglas was recently arrested for allegedly submitting a life insurance policy for her ex-husband without his knowledge. According to a Coffee County Sheriff’s Office incident report, detectives met with a man on May 7 at the Coffee County Law Enforcement Center concerning a reported case of insurance fraud.

Georgia woman charged for allegedly filing life insurance policy application on ex-husband

Salon

When Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, right-wing attorney John Eastman came up with a legal coping strategy: What if, he proposed, we just pretend that Trump won? That strategy hit a wall when former Vice President Mike Pence refused to play along, with Trump declaring him a coward and traitor while hundreds of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempted coup d’etat.

Legal experts: Trump's "friends on the Supreme Court" may take up his demand to intervene

Phoenix, AZ

"Operation We Will Find You 2" focused on cities such as Phoenix and Miami.

US Marshals rescue 200 missing children over six weeks

Missouri State

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CJ Coombs

The first time my family walked into a Ponderosa Steakhouse was in the late 1960s. It was new and the experience was great. Like other new restaurants, if the management doesn't stay on top, the quality of service can decline. The location we went to did change through the years, but in the beginning, it was great.

The 1960s: the Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouses are still around in some states

Legal experts are expressing concern about the widespread implications of the Supreme Court decision released Monday stating that Donald Trump and other past and future presidents enjoy “absolute immunity” for “official acts” taken in office. In the 6-3 ruling, the court's right-wing majority said presidents are...

Legal experts shocked at SCOTUS immunity ruling: "The president can basically be a king"

CNN political commentators Van Jones and Scott Jennings weigh in on the Supreme Court’s ruling that Donald Trump may claim immunity from criminal prosecution for some of the actions he took in the waning days of his presidency in a decision that will likely further delay a trial on the federal election subversion charges pending against him.

‘Really scary’: Van Jones reacts to Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity

Masonville, NY

The victims were visiting Cooperstown, New York, for a baseball tournament.

5 family members killed in plane crash in upstate New York, police say

Newark, NJ

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Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

The court’s opinion makes clear that this ruling is not a death knell for Jack Smith’s election interference case, write Norm Eisen, E. Danya Perry and Joshua Kolb.

Opinion: Why Trump shouldn’t celebrate the immunity ruling just yet

NewSantaAna

The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

In a blistering dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Supreme Court's historic immunity ruling left her with "fear for our democracy."

Justice Sotomayor: President now a 'king above the law' after immunity ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Monday that the president is entitled to presumptive immunity from all official acts has severely undermined the case against Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, making it even less likely he will face justice for his actions.In his majority opinion granting sweeping protections to the president, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that part of the Department of Justice’s indictment against the former president “alleges that Trump and his co-conspirators ‘attempted to enlist the Vice President to use his ceremonial role at the January 6 certification proceeding to fraudulently...

Supreme Court’s Trump Immunity Ruling Decimates Jack Smith’s Case

Pennsylvania State

Washington County, PA

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A western Pennsylvania county's elected commissioners were sued Monday over a policy adopted for this year's primary in which people whose mail-in ballots were disqualified for technical violations say they were purposely not informed in time to fix errors. Seven disqualified primary voters, the local NAACP branch...

Lawsuit says Pennsylvania county deliberately hid decisions to invalidate some mail-in ballots

Could a commander in chief order SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival and not face criminal prosecution? That is the hypothetical raised by two justices.

'Extreme hypotheticals': SEAL Team 6 assassination resurfaces in immunity dissents

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Supreme Court live updates: Biden says SCOTUS decision sets 'dangerous precedent'

Trump called the ruling a \"big win for our constitution and democracy.\" The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Donald Trump's sweeping claim of \"absolute\" immunity from...

Trump called the ruling a "big win for our constitution and democracy." The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Donald Trump's sweeping claim of "absolute" immunity from...

Supreme Court live updates: Biden says SCOTUS decision sets 'dangerous precedent'

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