"He is planting the seeds for delegitimizing the election if he loses," Vanita Gupta, a former head of DOJ’s civil rights division under President Barack Obama and now president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said on Twitter on Sunday in reaction to Trump's "rigged election" claim. "It’s from the playbook. It’ll…
President Donald Trump has doubled down in his attacks against mail-in voting for this year's presidential election claiming it will lead to the 'greatest rigged election in history' and its supporters are using the coronavirus to create a voting scam.Trump is ramping up his campaign against the integrity of mail-in ballots as states including Michigan…
Trump accusations shed light on how he could use the Covid-19 pandemic to undermine the results of the November election People vote at an early voting station for the special congressional election in Lancaster, California on 10 May 2020. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump falsely accused Democrats of trying to “steal” Tuesday’s…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…