DOJ demands Florida stop voter roll purge.
The state of Florida had commenced a major effort to remove suspected non-citizens from state vote rolls. But poor lists had netted numerous actual citizens.
Did the Romney campaign really think there was a White House conspiracy to sabotage their Solyndra press conference? Is World Net Daily now doing their advance work?
When word first came down this afternoon that the John Edwards jury had reached a verdict, the cable nets were calm, deliberate, and OMG! When it turned out to be only a partial verdict at that point … AAAAARGH!
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The government’s case against John Edwards was always a reach. The partial verdict announced just now confirms it. Edwards was found not guilty on one count, and a mistrial was declared on the five others. It remains to be seen whether the Justice Department will move to try the case again.
The official portraits of George W. and Laura Bush, unveiled today at the White House.
So it turns out the jury reached a verdict but not the verdict in the John Edwards trial. Unanimity on only one count — no unanimity on the remaining 5 counts. It was not revealed how the jury came down on the one count, but it is reportedly the count having to do with whether Bunny Mellon’s payments for the keeping and hiding of Edwards’ mistress exceeded the FEC contribution limits. The judge, as is customary, sent the jury back to continue deliberating.
The verdict is reportedly in and will be announced shortly. Follow all the latest developments on the John Edwards trial at TPMLivewire.
North Carolina Republicans have come up with a novel strategy to combat a future threatened by a rise in sea levels, which scientists agree will continue to accelerate thanks to global warming: Pass a law pretending it won’t happen.
I woke up this morning to read an astonishingly bad piece of reporting/analysis from Politico, publicly chin scratching about the apparently massive press bias against the Romney campaign. But a piece in GQ sums it up better than I could so let me quote the key passage … Read More