NEW YORK (Reuters) – Conservative former U.S. appeals court judge J. Michael Luttig in an opinion piece on Sunday said Republicans are making a serious error with “spineless support” for Donald Trump’s new bid for the White House. Lutting wrote in the New York Times that the Republican Party is in part to blame for…
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump said the federal government has a role in regulating late term abortions, but declined to provide specifics on what that role was in a speech to a conservative audience on Saturday night. Trump has been relatively quiet on the issue of abortion throughout his campaign…
By Julia Harte (Reuters) -Abortion rights supporters and opponents held dueling rallies around the U.S. on Saturday, the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized the procedure nationwide. In Washington, speakers from national abortion rights groups, including Women’s March and NARAL Pro-Choice America, assembled…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday asked a federal judge to delay the start of former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of willful retention of classified government records and obstruction of justice until Dec. 11, a court filing showed. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon set an initial trial date…
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Several Republican presidential candidates praised restrictions on abortion rights at a conference of Christian conservatives on Friday, illustrating how the issue still animates the party one year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down nationwide constitutional protections for the procedure. Former Vice President Mike Pence, who has emerged as…
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday blocked a new Florida law restricting drag performances, the third time this month that federal courts have enjoined laws backed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis that concern gender or LGBTQ matters. In all three cases, the issues supported by DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, lost…
By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday marked the one-year anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling overturning the right to an abortion by telling a rally of abortion-rights supporters that Republicans will regret their efforts to limit reproductive rights. “The majority wrote, ‘Women are not without an…
By Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) – Former lawmaker and engineer Maria Corina Machado, ex-presidential candidate Henrique Capriles and at least five others will run in an October opposition primary in Venezuela, the first since 2012 as the opposition seeks to unseat President Nicolas Maduro in an election next year. Popular Will party opposition figure Freddy…
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver what his aides are billing as a major economic policy speech on Wednesday, laying down a key marker for his re-election campaign. Plans for a speech in Chicago on “Bidenomics,” which have not previously been reported and were seen in a White House…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States slapped sanctions on Friday on two Russian intelligence officers who attempted to interfere in a local American election as part of Moscow’s “global malign influence operations,” the Treasury Department said. The two officers, Yegor Sergeyevich Popov and Aleksei Borisovich Sukhodolov, both members of Russia’s Federal Security Service, have worked…
