The Trap with Rick Klein
It’s a day that former President Donald Trump’s political enemies have been waiting for for a long time, and it’s not even close to the end of this story.
Fees opposing the Trump Organization and its lead monetary director, Allen Weisselberg, are expected to be released Thursday afternoon, after a special grand jury prosecuted both entities, ABC News’ Aaron Katersky reported.
The charges, which Trump on Wednesday called “nonsense,” are the top step in in-depth investigations into Trump’s finances through New York prosecutors. However, even this could be the maximum of clues about what might happen next.
We’ve gone far beyond the level of political disadvantage around what could hurt Trump politically. Consider that hours before the long-awaited news was announced, only two Republicans joined Democrats in voting for a House Select Committee to investigate the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Earlier that day, Trump was able to call some 32 House Republicans attending an occasion he was organizing along with his stopover at the Texas border, where Trump repeated his lies about the election. accusations of a “witch hunt” run by liberals.
However, the measures formalize the legal danger potentially faced by the former president, his circle of family members and close associates. Investigations through the New York Attorney General’s Office and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office have gone far beyond what the original allegations might imply: a fact well known to the president’s affiliates.
A school of ideas suggests that legal toughening may cause Trump to stand for president more likely, giving him some sort of offensive political strategy even while playing, and will pay for, a full legal defense.
But the entities now surrounding the global Trump are not under his command and do not have the same types of political minefields to wander as even Biden’s Justice Department. Trump likes to communicate about him as a backlash, yet those punches can be harder than the same. old to do.
The RUNDOWN with Averi Harper
In New York’s democratic mayor’s long number one, the key to ending the multi-week wait for a winner will be vote-by-mail and affidavit.
The fiasco of the planned publication of the first unofficial tabulation of state votes has been corrected for the time being: on Wednesday, the Electoral Council released updated figures, subtracting the fictitious control votes that were mistakenly included in Tuesday’s recount.
The result remains pretty much the same: Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is in the lead and Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia is in second place. Both filed motions in court, asking the BOE to suspend the ballots and correct any errors in the count.
But there are still more than 125,000 ballots that will be added to the count, and that won’t be until July 6.
Tuesday’s confusion is more illustrative of the continuing errors and incompetence within the city’s BOE than the effectiveness of preferential voting. The formula has been used in jurisdictions across the country without primary incidents.
Proponents of preferential voting argue that waiting a few weeks is a small value to pay in a city where a circular moment would have cost millions of dollars.
The COUNCIL with Alisa Wiersema
The Supreme Court is expected to consider its two final decisions of the existing legislature on Thursday and what is at stake is the maximum for voting rights in the context of the court’s new conservative majority.
As Republicans in state legislatures across the country continue their efforts to revise election laws, the court’s ruling on Brnovich against the Democratic National Committee will be the most important voting rights resolution in nearly a decade. also how those new adjustments will be judged under the Federal Civil Rights Act.
The case also gives a history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting and establishes identity criteria where it exists.
At the root of the case are two voting regulations in Arizona that, according to the DNC, violate voting rights law: one rule says ballots cast in the chamber must be discarded and the other prohibits the collection of ballots through third parties. the regulations discriminate against Native American, Latin American and African American voters, raising considerations about postal logistics among those communities for the state with the highest mail-in voting rates.
One more thing
A special grand jury in Manhattan voted to indict Trump’s eponymous corporation and its monetary leader Allen Weisselberg, sources close to the matter told ABC News. The fees contained in the indictment are expected to be revealed Thursday afternoon, the appeals said, when Weisselberg and an official from the Trump organization will appear in court.
THE PLAYLIST
ABC News’ “Get Started Here” podcast. Thursday morning’s episode features ABC News lead legal analyst Dan Abrams, who is reversing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. Then we have the reaction of Cosby’s accuser, Patricia Leary Steuer And ABC News political director Rick Klein explains why preferential voting is back under the microscope after confusion in the ballot count in the New York City mayor’s primary.
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