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The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law.
President Donald Trump claimed that he has issued a “full pardon” to Tina Peters — the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state sentence — even though presidents have no constitutional authority to pardon state crimes.
Even many Republican-led states are resisting the Trump administration’s sweeping demands for unredacted voter records.
Gregg Phillips — the activist behind one of the earliest and most consequential election fraud hoaxes of the century — is set to lead FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
DOJ didn’t explicitly say the probe was related to Tina Peters, but far-right activists are saying the quiet part out loud.
President Donald Trump falsely claimed Tuesday that all pardons and commutations signed by former President Joe Biden are “invalid” because they were allegedly authorized using the autopen.
Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.
A federal court Tuesday delivered a devastating blow to Texas Republicans’ attempt at a mid-decade gerrymander. And the court found that a July letter sent by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) — intended to justify the GOP’s aggressive redraw — effectively handed voting rights advocates a smoking gun proving it was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
There’s little the Trump administration can do to free Peters since she was convicted on state charges.
We’ve been warning for months that President Donald Trump and the GOP are coming hard for mail voting — and this week saw a major development in the campaign.
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