WASHINGTON, DC — The Texas state GOP chairman floated the the far-fetched possibility of secession Friday night for ‘law-abiding states’ after a U.S. Supreme Court defeat. The court officially put to rest a brazen eleventh-hour attempt by the state of Texas and Republican allies of President Donald Trump to throw out millions of votes in four states and overturn
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MADISON, Wisconsin — President Donald Trump has lost a Wisconsin lawsuit seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots and overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state. Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek on Friday ruled against every argument Trump made challenging ballots in Wisconsin’s two largest counties, saying the election was properly administered
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday called New Mexico’s Covid-19 hospitalization numbers “very frightening” as she and other state officials issued a new public health order limiting non-essential surgeries. At an afternoon briefing, the governor also indicated that the first doses of virus vaccine from drug maker Pfizer are expected
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WASHINGTON, DC — Each of the four battleground states targeted by a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn President Donald Trump’s election defeat issued blistering briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, with Pennsylvania officials going so far as to call the effort a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.” The court filings from Georgia,
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump and 17 Republican attorneys general are supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s audacious legal gambit at the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election. But some influential Republicans are speaking out — in the states, on Capitol Hill and at the Supreme Court — opposing the effort, highlighting
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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas state official who has been critical of measures ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott in efforts to slow the coronavirus pandemic says he has tested positive for the virus. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller was among an estimated 200 people who rallied outside Abbott’s home in October to protest his pandemic
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump personally asked Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas if he would argue a long-shot election lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results in four battleground states, should the U.S. Supreme Court agree to take it up, two sources said Wednesday. Trump inquired on Tuesday whether Cruz would argue the
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WASHINGTON, DC — An attorney representing President Donald Trump, John Eastman, is known for recently pushing a racist conspiracy theory — that Trump himself later amplified — claiming Vice President-elect Kamala Harris might not be eligible for the role because her parents were immigrants. Eastman wrote the Newsweek column that was widely discredited earlier this
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to block millions of votes from four battleground states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden. Trump’s request came in a filing with the court asking to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton seeking to invalidate millions of
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, a close ally of President Donald Trump, sent an email from a personal email account to every House Republican soliciting signatures for an amicus brief in the longshot Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate electoral college votes from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The email said Trump
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Republicans’ last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground. The court without comment Tuesday refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf already has certified Biden’s victory and the state’s 20 electors are to
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners voted on Tuesday to approve a 15% pay raise for their positions, which amounts to just over $5,000 annually, the county confirmed. “We don’t really offer enough money to entice young people to participate in the process of being a county commissioner,” said
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — President-elect Joe Biden is promising to distribute a coronavirus vaccine to 100 million people during the first three months of his incoming administration, pledging “100 million shots in the first 100 days.” At an event from Delaware to introduce his pandemic response team on Tuesday, Biden laid out his top three priorities
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing four battleground states — Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — whose election results handed the White House to President-elect Joe Biden. In the suit, he claims that pandemic-era changes to election procedures in those states violated federal law, and asks the U.S. Supreme Court to block the states from voting
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ATLANTA, Georgia — Georgia’s top elections official has re-certified the state’s election results after a recount confirmed once again that Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in the state. Trump requested this recount, which is the third tally showing Biden won Georgia. State law allows a losing candidate to request a recount if the
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EL PASO, Texas — Lillian Blancas, an El Paso attorney who is in a runoff for a municipal judgeship, died Monday while hospitalized with Covid-19. She was 47. The El Paso Bar Association announced her death in an email. Blancas finished first in a three-way race Nov. 3 for the Municipal Court 4 bench, winning
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, California — California has certified its presidential election and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for Joe Biden, officially handing the Democrat the Electoral College majority needed to win the White House. Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s formal approval of Biden’s victory brought the Democrat’s tally of pledged electors so far to 279, according
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — President-elect Joe Biden is predicting the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic will only get worse if Congress doesn’t act quickly to pass an aid bill. Biden delivered remarks Friday afternoon reacting to November’s national jobs report, which showed a sharp decrease in U.S. hiring even as the nation is
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden‘s margin over President Donald Trump in the nationwide popular vote is now more than 7 million votes and may continue to grow as several states continue counting votes. Biden’s lead over Trump is the second largest since 2000, and is about two and a half times larger than Hillary Clinton’s popular vote
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus expressed frustration in a meeting with leaders of President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team on Thursday with how they believe New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has been treated in the Cabinet selection process. They took particular issue with what they say were leaks from the transition
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — President-elect Joe Biden told CNN on Thursday that he will ask Americans to wear masks for his first 100 days after he takes office, in a sign of how Biden’s approach to the virus will be dramatically different to President Donald Trump’s response. “Just 100 days to mask, not forever. 100 days.
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MADISON, Wisconsin — A split Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear President Donald Trump’s lawsuit attempting to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state, saying the case must first wind its way through lower courts. The legal defeat on a 4-3 ruling was the latest in a string of
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Mayor Steve Adler of Austin said in a video posted on YouTube that he regrets traveling to Mexico in early November as he was urging people to be cautious about the spread of Covid-19. “The first week of November, my daughter got married here in Austin, and like many other brides, she had
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas could receive coronavirus vaccine doses to immunize up to 700,000 Texans in December, assuming U.S. health officials approve coronavirus vaccine candidates from drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday afternoon. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has promised to send Texas as many as 1.4 million doses
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EL PASO, Texas — Although the election for El Paso District Attorney was decided back in July, the losing candidate from that race re-emerged Wednesday with an eye-raising video that was posted online. On his Facebook account, Assistant District Attorney James Montoya announced that he would be leaving the DA’s office and then went on
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is the leading contender to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, and is expected to be nominated for one of the most critical roles in President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet. An announcement could be made
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have sent a letter to President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team lobbying for New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to be nominated for the role of Health and Human Services secretary. The letter, signed by 32 members of Congress, including Hispanic Caucus Chairman Joaquin Castro, a Texas
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that the Justice Department has not uncovered any evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. His comments come despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the election was stolen, and his refusal to concede his loss to
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday introduced top advisers he said will help his administration rebuild an economy hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, declaring, “I know times are tough, but I want you to know that help is on the way.” Biden said he’d chosen a “first-rate team” that is “tested and experienced” to
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s been a tumultuous term for Mayor Dee Margo facing several emergency situations for the city of El Paso. First was the unprecedented immigration surge which brought hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to our border. Then, El Paso faced one of its darkest days when a lone gunman walked into
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