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In the United States, jury duty can come in two different forms: state and federal. Many Americans who are called for state jury duty repeatedly say they have never been called for federal jury duty. At the federal level, jurors are empaneled in cases being prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Politico legal reporter Josh Gerstein, in an article published on January 7, stresses that federal grand juries are making a major "comeback" during Donald Trump's second presidency — but aren't necessarily sympathetic to his legal agenda.Grand juries, Gerstein notes, were "written off, for decades, as a pointless anachronism." But that i

Trump’s domestic and foreign policies — ranging from his attempted coup against the United States five years ago, to his incursion into Venezuela last weekend, to his current threats against Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland — undermine domestic and international law. But that’s not all. They threaten what we mean by civilization. The moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking and exploiting the weaker. Otherwise, we’d be permanently immersed in a brutish war in which only the fittest and most powerful could survive. This principle lies at the center of America’s founding documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. It�

What too damn many people somehow still don’t understand is that the attack on January 6, 2021, is an open wound for millions of Americans that will never heal until the reprehensible, anti-American terrorist behind that violent attempted coup is brought to justice and jailed.Five years later, there has not been a single day — not ONE — that has gone by when I haven’t given one of the most tragic days in American history some thought. There are days it just rattles me — brings me to fury and tears. Count this as another one of those days ... This is most likely called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but I prefer to think of it as love for a flawed country that I served honorably in the Navy, and the profound disappointment that America herself wasn't found worthy enough to be defended after

Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of the J6 insurrection. On January 6, 2021, the then-president organized and led an attempted paramilitary takeover of the US government.And Donald Trump got away with it.He ran for president for a second time like a man who was trying to outrun a jail sentence. That’s because he was. Special prosecutor Jack Smith, who investigated the events of that treasonous day, told lawmakers last month that he could prove Trump’s guilt. “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power,” Smith said.Trump stalled and obstructed and dragged his feet, abusing every judicial courtesy afforded to powerful men and every procedu

CNN chief political analyst David Axelrod confronted Republican pundit Scott Jennings after Jennings attempted to downplay the seriousness of President Donald Trump’s attempted coup on January 6, 2021.“I don't treat [that day] like a national holiday like the Democrats do. It was a bad day, but I don't look forward to memorializing it every year. It's a bad day. It should never happen again,” Jennings said on “the Source” with Kaitlan Collins. “The president has a point of view on it. He's got a messaging point of view on it that he's never backed away from. And the American people, frankly, adjudicated these questions in the 2024 e

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has made a habit out of raising money from President Donald Trump's attacks against him. And the president's latest jab at the Kentucky Republican has yielded a significant flood of donations to his campaign coffers.In a Tuesday post to his X account, Massie announced that he had raised nearly $22,000 since Trump attacked him in a Truth Social post earlier this week. He also took a jab at Trump and sarcastically suggested that the president secretly wanted him to win reelection given how much money he was bringing in from his attacks."In just the past 18 hours, 368 donors have given $21,915," Massie wr

On Tuesday, conservative attorney George Conway officially announced his campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives, and kicked off his campaign by highlighting President Donald Trump's false claims about the January 6 insurrection."These are the lies of a criminal. The message I'm sending is that the president of the United States is a criminal," Conway told CNN host

"It’s not just that American manufacturing under President Donald Trump is shrinking,” argued journalist David Shuster on his Blue Amp Substack. “It’s that U.S. manufacturing is shrinking under a lunatic who never tires of boasting that he alone can make U.S. manufacturing great again.”Despite Trump hammering former President Joe Biden on his economy in the months leading up to Trump’s election, Shuster observed that U.S. manufacturing actually grew under Biden.“Output climbed to record levels. Investment poured into factor

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) is currently sitting on roughly two million documents relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and one prosecutor is arguing that the fact the DOJ continues to keep it under wraps is damning for Trump.In a Tuesday post to his X account, attorney Tristan Snell — a former New York assistant attorney general who prosecuted the Trump University scam — wrote that he had "led a LOT of

Zeteo News founder Mehdi Hasan unleashed a rapid-fire response to President Donald Trump’s and the right wing’s harping on Somali fraud in Minnesota.“The right has been screaming for the past few weeks that the left in America won't talk about fraud, about Somali fraud. … Well, let's prove them wrong, shall we? Give me just 60 seconds. Start the clock.” said Hasan, before unleashing a machine gun-like spread of fraudsters who both Trump and MAGA have all but ignored.“Let's talk about convicted fraudster