Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Reading archive 2024-07-02

Petition to change D.C. elections gets thousands of signatures. What’s next?: If enough signatures are found to be valid, Initiative 83 would appear on the November ballot — and if voters approve it, I-83 could shake up D.C. elections.

Biden team courts skittish Democrats as path to replace him narrows: The president and his aides signal their intent to push ahead as the party anxiously awaits the post-debate polls.

Judges order hate groups to pay millions for 2017 Charlottesville rally: More than a dozen of the nation’s most prominent white supremacists and hate groups owe about $9.7 million in damages, attorney’s fees and costs.

Manchin threatened to break with Biden before senior Democrats intervened: “Nobody wants to be the first one to knife Julius Caesar,” one Democratic Party official said.

What conservative justices said about immunity — before giving it to Trump: Most of them assured Americans that a president isn’t “above the law.” Some went further. - "'In the majority’s view, while all other citizens of the United States must do their jobs and live their lives within the confines of criminal prohibitions, the President cannot be made to do so; he must sometimes be exempt from the law’s dictates depending on the character of his conduct,' Jackson wrote.

"'Indeed,' she added, 'the majority holds that the President, unlike anyone else in our country, is comparatively free to engage in criminal acts in furtherance of his official duties.'

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