THE DOCKET: Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis is proposing to take Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants to trial on March 4th, making for a crowded legal schedule for the former president next year.   Willis’s motion said that she “proposes certain deadlines that …

SERVING HIM: Atlanta prosecutor Fani Willis says she plans to try all 19 defendants together in her Georgia election interference case, but the legal maneuvering has already begun.   Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked to have his …

STRIKE FOUR: Former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants were charged last night in Atlanta under an indictment accusing them of racketeering in an attempt to overturn the Georgia results of the 2020 presidential election. It is Trump’s fourth criminal …

PARADISE LOST: The body count in the Maui wildfire has risen to 96, making it the deadliest wildfire in the US in more than 100 years. Authorities expect to find still more fatalities as they pick through the ash and ruins …

PARADISE LOST: The death toll has risen to 55 in Maui’s Lahaina wildfire, making it the second deadliest wildfire in US history, topped only by a California fire that killed 85 in 2018.   This morning there’s controversy over lack of warning …

REJECTED: Ohio voters rejected a constitutional amendment that was part of a Republican plan to block legal abortion in that state. The vote was 57 percent to 43 percent.   Issue 1, the bill on the ballot, would have made it a …

RAISING THE BAR: The state of Ohio is voting today in a special election on a ballot issue that would make it harder to amend the state’s constitution with the intention of blocking any effort to legalize abortion.   Until now, Ohio voters …

August 7, 2023Vol. 12, No. 2056 ASPIRATIONAL: Evidently Donald Trump merely “aspired” to remain in the presidency after losing the 2020 election.   Trump’s lawyer John Lauro hit the Sunday morning talk shows saying all Trump did was exercise his right to free speech. “What …

August 5, 2023Vol. 12, No. 2055 COMING AFTER YOU: Federal prosecutors last night notified the judge in Donald Trump’s election case that he had posted a threat to his legal opponents on his Truth Social website saying, “YOU GO AFTER ME, …

NEVER SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN:  Former President Donald Trump yesterday in a Washington federal court pleaded not guilty to his third criminal indictment since June, this one charging that he conspired to overthrow the legitimate results of the 2020 election.   Moments before …