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By  LINDSAY WHITEHURST and NICHOLAS RICCARDI

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s push to force California to set aside thousands of ballots from people the federal government claims are noncitizens, a decision that came hours before the final day of voting in the pivotal midterm elections.

The high court refused to immediately intervene in a case involving 20,000 people the Republican administration flagged as likely noncitizens on the largely Democratic state’s voter rolls.

The swift rejection capped a string of losses for the president’s effort to intervene in the election before the counting of ballots to decide who controls Congress in the last two years of his second term. No justices publicly dissented.

“The Court rejected Trump’s emergency request without even asking the other side to respond,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, posted on X. “Democracy won.”
Kevin Breuninger

A federal judge on Monday blasted the Department of Justice for “weaponization” as he dismissed its case accusing two former FBI officials of lying to Congress about investigations into Hunter Biden, multiple news outlets reported.

Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui, in a hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, reportedly tore into the DOJ over its “slapdash job” prosecuting ex-officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, saying he was “deeply troubled by what has happened here.”

Faruqui said the government lacked probable cause and failed to present evidence that the officials’ statements before the House Judiciary Committee in 2023 were knowingly false, MS NOW reported.

He also accused the DOJ of wrongly rushing the case ahead of the midterm election. The situation “cannot be described as anything other than weaponization,” he said, according to MS NOW.
I’ve long considered Stevens a friend and an ally and a dependable public servant. I do not know this person who blatantly lied to me shortly before endorsing a carbon-copy Trump propagandist.
By Charlotte Clymer

Just before noon on Sunday, I sat at my desk staring in a mix of disbelief and denial at a video of Rep. Haley Stevens arriving at Perfecting Church in Detroit, practically arm-in-arm with Mike Rogers, the Republican running for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

Well, this isn’t what it looks like, I thought to myself. Surely it would be downright unthinkable for the congresswoman, who was almost the Democratic nominee herself, to be doing a photo op with the Republican nominee in the final days of one of the most consequential Senate races of the most consequential midterm election of my lifetime. A bad look, for sure, but this can be explained, I reasoned. This had to be some bizarre coincidence or uncharacteristically bad timing on the part of Stevens and her staff. I understood why other people were upset over it, but that’s only because they didn’t know the congresswoman.

She had assured me, her friend, that she had not wavered from supporting the Democratic nominee in his race.

I have known Haley Stevens for years. I’ve long considered her a friend and an ally and a public servant who, whatever political differences there may be between us, has always acted in service to the greater good. So, as I watched the unfolding campaign drama in Michigan the weekend before Election Day, I decided to reach out to Haley on Saturday afternoon and remind her — because there are times those of us in politics need such encouragement — that campaign noise is exactly that: just noise. And the bigger picture is what matters.
N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Peter Blandino USA TODAY

Prosecutors announced in court on Nov. 2 that they intend to retry Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children.

Clancy, 36, was charged with murder for killing her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, on Jan. 24, 2023, by strangling them with exercise bands in the basement of their Duxbury home. Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington argued she can't be held criminally responsible, Massachusetts' version of the insanity defense, because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings. Clancy's triple murder trial ended with a hung jury in early September, leaving her fate in limbo.

Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague said prosecutors want to retry Clancy but are waiting to decide what charges she will face until Judge William Sullivan makes a decision on three motions, including a defense motion to dismiss the murder charges.
Story by Matthew Rozsa

President Donald Trump suffered a major blow as a federal judge on Monday urged his colleagues to have ICE agents testify in person.

The reason? Otherwise, they lie too much.

"A federal judge is encouraging his colleagues to call ICE officers in for live testimony on the witness stand, concluding that without direct scrutiny and cross-examination, routine lies will go unpunished," reported Politico's Kyle Cheney on Monday.

"An ICE officer fabricated facts in official records to justify an arrest," wrote Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai on Monday. "This Court knows this because at an evidentiary hearing on Plaintiffs’ Motion to Enforce Preliminary Injunction, he testified under oath that what he wrote in the official records of the arrest were incorrect. On the witness stand he minimized the error as mere oversight. This Court found he lied after evaluating his live testimony and the documentary evidence."

He added, "Evaluating live testimony is a time-tested method for truth finding. Written declarations are convenient, but insufficient on their own when witnesses are willing to lie. This enforcement action is a powerful reminder of two principles."

Kasubhai continued, "First, uncovering truth is not a passive activity. Developing a robust evidentiary record worthy of telling the story of what really happened can never fully materialize from a stack of signed written statements. Live testimony is necessary. Examination and cross-examination are necessary. The trial courts are the uniquely specialized forum in which building a full evidentiary record is possible."
Story by Matthew Rozsa

President Donald Trump and his top supporters have repeatedly been embarrassed in their attempts to prosecute Jack Smith, the official who himself prosecuted Trump for alleged crimes involving his election denial and document theft scandal.s. Yet even as Trump and his team fail to nab Smith over and over and over again, they continue to take swings at the lawman whose prosecutions against them apparently got under their skin.

Now his Justice Department is literally running scared of Smith.

"Trump DOJ runs scared from Jack Smith," AllRiseNews editor-in-chief Adam Klasfield posted on X on Monday. "Citing regs concerning "current or former employees," DOJ tries to block BBC from deposing Smith about Trump and the Jan. 6 insurrection. Smith agreed to testify."

Klasfield continued, "It cites grand jury secrecy, classified info privilege, exec privilege & more."
Story by Ashlyn Walker

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and former Attorney General Pam Bondi have been thrust into an explosive federal court ruling after a judge found that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fabricated arrest records and lied under oath, OK! can reveal.

According to court documents obtained by OK!, U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai issued a 50-page ruling on November 2, finding that federal immigration authorities repeatedly violated an injunction restricting warrantless arrests in Oregon.

Judge Exposes Fabricated Arrest Records
In a stunning finding, the judge determined that an ICE officer had falsified information in official government records to justify an immigration arrest.

The court also found that the officer gave false testimony under oath while attempting to explain discrepancies in the documentation.
Story by Chris Perez

A federal judge in Oregon says he can no longer assume ICE agents are telling the truth in their arrest paperwork, declaring Monday that live testimony is now "necessary" after finding that warrantless arrests are still being made and facts are being "fabricated in official records" by immigration officers.

In a 50-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai ruled that ICE repeatedly violated an existing court order governing warrantless immigration arrests in the Beaver State, with inaccurate reports, missing records and accounts that did not match what actually happened.

The judge's loss of confidence in the agency was so pronounced that he withdrew the usual presumption that government officials have properly performed their duties.

"This presumption no longer holds for defendants," Kasubhai wrote. "Defendants are held to the same expectation as any other litigant before this court. One must earn credibility by acting with integrity."
Story by Bennito L. Kelty

A federal judge is demanding answers from the Trump Justice Department after prosecutors' splashy announcement about a fraud case went sideways.

In an order issued Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Irick directed the government to name the people who wrote and posted a press release falsely claiming all 13 defendants in a Florida immigration fraud case were foreign nationals, according to a post on X by court records researcher Seamus Hughes. Those people must then explain in writing why they should not be sanctioned.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida put out the release Monday under a headline touting "13 Foreign Nationals Charged." Its opening line said the defendants were from Brazil and Cuba.

"That press release appears to both contain a false assertion and be in violation of Local Rule 3.11," Irick wrote. "In fact, all thirteen Defendants are not foreign nationals. Based on the hearings that occurred yesterday, the Court knows that at least one of the Defendants is a United States citizen. Others might be United States citizens as well."
Story by Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY

Democrats have captured both chambers of Congress, pushing deep into traditionally GOP territory to flip states and districts won by President Donald Trump.

Decision Desk HQ and NBC projected Democrats would take the Senate, they had already been projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives earlier in the evening.

The results marked a stunning rebuke of the president, who barnstormed across the country in the final weeks of the campaign in a bid to keep red states in Republican hands. His efforts were unsuccessful as Democrats flipped Senate seats in South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa.

Democrats needed to pick up four seats to take control of the chamber.
Story by JESSE BEDAYN and ANNA WILDER

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In a stunning upset, Gina Hinojosa was elected the first Democratic governor of Texas in more than 30 years on Tuesday, ousting Republican incumbent Greg Abbott and catapulting a decided underdog to national prominence leading what has long been the nation's most populous red state.

She will become Texas' first Latina governor — and the first Democrat to hold the office since Ann Richards in the 1990s — following a groundbreaking victory that topples one of the nation's most prominent Republican governors and steadfast supporters of President Donald Trump, possibly accelerating the state’s shift to an emerging battleground.

Her victory was part of an electrifying night for Democrats in Texas, where James Talarico won election to the U.S. Senate over Republican Ken Paxton.

Hinojosa's win served as validation for Democrats' long deferred dream that demographic changes in the state would be followed by a shift in political power. It also elevates Hinojosa, a 52-year-old state legislator from a liberal Austin district since 2017, into a breakout Democratic star, even as she did not have significant support from the national party for her campaign.
Story by Dr. Allison Wiltz

In America, even a simple piece of attire — white sheets fitted into a robe and a masked hood with eye holes cut to see but not be seen — is enough to provoke a deep sense of dread among Black Americans. Former Confederates founded the Ku Klux Klan in 1866, and in the decades that followed created a legacy of violence. Klan members “committed uncounted murders, bombings, kidnappings, and assaults, as well as innumerable acts of intimidation and threats, including night riding and cross burning, all in the name of white supremacy and preserving white rule.”

The image of the Klan robe is just as jarring to a Black American as the Nazi symbol is to the European Jew or the Israeli flag is to a Palestinian, for that matter. Because whenever a group of people is systematically targeted by another group, the cultural tapestry surrounding that oppression is seared into their collective consciousness. Still, while many are familiar with the Klan, few have given much thought to the clothing members wore. Anonymity was of the utmost importance to Klansmen, especially the prominent ones. Over time, their ghastly disguises became associated with racial violence. But why white sheets?

Early Klansmen portrayed themselves as the wandering spirits of Confederate soldiers, often referencing their deaths at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862 in Tennessee and other high-casualty battles, and claimed they were thirsty while pretending to drink a large bucketful of water. Initially, not all of them wore white hooded robes. Throughout the 1860s, Klansmen wore gowns dyed white, black, blue, or red. Some even wore animal horns, fake beards, and other disguises, such as pillowcases, flour sacks, burlap sacks, and even dresses turned inside out.
Story by STEVE PEOPLES, BILL BARROW and LINLEY SANDERS

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump repeatedly encouraged voters to pretend he was on the midterm ballot. They did. And it's hard to imagine a worse outcome for the Republican president and his party.

Voters absolutely punished Trump’s allies almost everywhere. Democrats won in swing states like Georgia, New Hampshire, North Carolina and in Republican strongholds of Iowa, Kansas, Texas and even South Carolina. Trump’s controversial mid-decade redistricting plan appeared to backfire. And Republican losses allowed Democrats to make history in Georgia, where Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first Black woman elected governor in U.S. history, while in Texas, Democrat Gina Hinojosa will become its first Latina governor.

Voters nationwide were in the mood for change, according to The AP Voter Poll, which found that roughly three-quarters of voters feel “angry” or “dissatisfied” with the direction of the country.

Among those who had Trump in mind when they cast their vote, about twice as many wanted to express opposition to the Republican president as those who wanted to support him. Most also blamed the Trump administration for high costs: about 6 in 10 say higher than usual prices are “more because of Trump’s policies."

Trump's coalition was also fraying: Young voters and Hispanics appear to have shifted away from the GOP after warming to Trump in 2024.
Story by Alia Shoaib

Democrats have taken back control of both the House and the Senate, in a sweeping blue wave that has dealt President Donald Trump a major political blow halfway through his second term in the White House.

In the Senate, Democrats have secured 54 seats to Republicans‘ 44, with two races still outstanding. They have so far flipped seven Republican-held seats.

In the House, Democrats have picked up 25 Republican-held seats, so far winning 228 seats to Republicans’ 139, with 68 races yet to be called.

While midterm elections typically favor the party out of power, the scale of this year’s result points to a broader rejection of the Republican administration.

In the lead-up to the election, Trump’s approval ratings had fallen close to their lowest point, amid widespread voter dissatisfaction with the cost of living and the war in Iran.
Story by Tom Porter

Rupert Murdoch’s conservative newspaper The Wall Street Journal has launched a blistering attack on Donald Trump after the GOP’s midterm election rout.

In an editorial Wednesday morning, as Democrats swept to victory in House and Senate races to claim control of Congress, the paper laid the blame for the defeat squarely at Trump’s feet.

“True to form, President Trump is already blaming everyone else, but he is the main architect of this rout,” wrote the editorial board.

“The President’s erratic and self-indulgent second-term governance has alienated much of the coalition he assembled in 2024,” it said, as voters, even in many traditionally red states, abandoned the Republicans.
Story by Megan Stringer

A Republican effort to carve out five additional GOP congressional districts in Texas backfired, with the party losing four of them, plus two Republican districts.

Why it matters: All of those districts are majority Latino, as Hispanic voters pivoted away from the GOP.

The latest: In the districts targeted by the GOP, South Texas Democratic U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez won reelection.

Democrat Johnny Garcia defeated President Trump-endorsed Carlos De La Cruz in the San Antonio region and Houston-area Democrat Leticia Gutierrez beat Republican Alex Mealer, also endorsed by Trump.

Plus: Republican U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz lost reelection to Tejano star and Democrat Bobby Pulido in the Rio Grande Valley, and Democrat Katy Padilla Stout beat Republican Brandon Herrera in the sprawling 23rd District that hasn't elected a Democrat since Pete Gallego in 2012.

Catch up quick: Texas Republicans last year, at the urging of Trump, kicked off a nationwide redistricting war for control of the U.S. House — but the party leaned on past gains with Latino voters in South Texas, and that support eroded.
Story by Front Page Detective Staff

A racist text thread recently exposed the alleged involvement of more than six police officers of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in questionable discussions, and now lawyers have requested that the court analyze their past and present cases for potential bias.

Defense attorneys demand a scrutiny of officers’ past cases
Six officers were terminated, besides the ones who resigned, from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in relation to a text thread containing demeaning comments about the Black community, WBTV reported on Monday, October 12.

Defense attorneys Brad Smith and Tim Emery spoke to the outlet and asked to reopen their old cases for malicious intent towards defendants due to color.

Some of the messages in the thread mentioned “competing and bragging” about “arresting and detaining black people.”

“When you’ve got police officers on the force that are playing games and looking to pull people over because of nothing more than the color of their skin, they’re predisposed to believe and to investigate certain crimes that may not be occurring,” attorneys said.
The South Carolina election of 1876 was not just disputed — it was surrounded by fraud, intimidation, and violence. As Reconstruction collapsed, political factions fought for control while Black voters were targeted and state power was seized through force. For a time, South Carolina was left with competing governments and a crisis that exposed how fragile democracy could become when violence decides the outcome. This video breaks down what happened, who benefited, and why this election still feels like something history tried to hide.
Story by Adam Cancryn, Sarah Ferris, Zachary Cohen, Alayna Treene, CNN

President Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s top leader.

Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday’s wipeout are moving swiftly to pin blame for the election results on Hegseth, arguing behind the scenes that he played a chief role in convincing Trump to attack Iran with no exit strategy — and no plan for managing the inevitable political fallout.

The knives-out campaign comes despite private acknowledgement from House and Senate GOP strategists that the party’s problems extended far beyond the war, triggering 2008-level losses that will take years to reverse. But for now, party leaders – and many in their ranks – remain unwilling to directly blame Trump for their woes.

Even among House Republicans who survived Tuesday’s onslaught, there’s zero expectation they will suddenly break from the president with two years left in his term. Yet that fealty does not extend to Hegseth, the combative defense secretary who has made few friends on Capitol Hill since taking over command of the Pentagon.
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