[ad_1] CNN — Mark Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook (FB) was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica” alongside Russian foreign intelligence actors as part of an election security assessment before ultimately removing the reference at his advisers’ suggestion, according to a 2019 deposition conducted by the Securities and Exchange …
Read More »Georgia grand jury investigating Trump election interference is winding down and has begun writing final report
[ad_1] CNN — A special grand jury investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia is winding down its work, according to sources familiar with the matter. The Atlanta-area special grand jury has largely finished hearing witness testimony and has already …
Read More »Federal investigators have accessed emails of Rep. Scott Perry and Trump allies in 2020 efforts
[ad_1] CNN — Federal investigators have obtained access to several email accounts, a draft autobiography and other writings in which Republican Rep. Scott Perry, Donald Trump elections attorney John Eastman, and former Justice Department officials Jeffrey Clark and Ken Klukowski discussed the 2020 election, according to a newly released order …
Read More »Special Counsel Smith speeds ahead on criminal probes surrounding Trump
[ad_1] Washington CNN — Newly-appointed special counsel Jack Smith is moving fast on a pair of criminal probes around Donald Trump that in recent months have focused on the former president’s state of mind after the 2020 election, including what he knew about plans to impede the transfer of power, …
Read More »Trump isn’t the only thing that could rock American democracy
[ad_1] CNN — American democracy – and the evolving way in which it is executed – is facing a series of fundamental questions beyond former Donald Trump’s election denialism. The former president’s call to end the Constitution for a 2020 election redo has rightly been met with ridicule and eyerolls …
Read More »Supreme Court won’t hear case brought by a group of voters against Dominion Voting Systems and Facebook
[ad_1] CNN — The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought against Dominion Voting Systems and Facebook after the 2020 election by a group of voters who claimed the companies illegally “influenced or interfered with” the contest. Lower courts had previously rejected the case, ruling that …
Read More »Raphael Warnock: Sky-high Black turnout fueled his previous win. Will Georgia do it again?
[ad_1] Atlanta CNN — Former UN Ambassador Andrew Young rode his scooter alongside Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, Martin Luther King III and a fervent crowd of marchers on a recent Sunday through a southwest Atlanta neighborhood. The group stopped at an early polling location to vote, forming a line with …
Read More »Opinion: How the Democrats’ Iowa caucuses self-destructed
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Laura Belin is the primary author at the website Bleeding Heartland. She has been covering Iowa politics since 2007. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN. CNN — The Democratic National Committee’s overhaul of the presidential nominating calendar will create …
Read More »Hakeem Jeffries plots return to majority for House Democrats in 2024
[ad_1] CNN — Some things have changed in the two weeks since Hakeem Jeffries learned – from listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s speech, sitting motionless with an intentional blank expression on his face for those who were watching – that she really was going to step aside. His phone …
Read More »Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post
[ad_1] CNN — Former President Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election and reinstate him to power Saturday in a continuation of his election denialism and pushing of fringe conspiracy theories. “Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare …
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