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 Getty Images President Donald Trump stated Tuesday that his predecessor was not solely responsible for the country’s decline, but rather it was the staff around him who “knew he was cognitively impaired.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump asserted that Biden was “not for open borders,” blaming his administration’s staff for policies that, in…

Prominent attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday that Chief Justice John Roberts was mistaken in suggesting that impeachment is “never” an “appropriate” remedy for judges over disagreements with their rulings. His comments came after Roberts issued a statement pushing back on President Donald Trump, asserting that centuries of precedent establish…

 Getty Images Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis has been hit with another setback after being disqualified from prosecuting the case she brought against President Donald Trump. Willis began prosecuting the case against the president and 18 other defendants on charges they attempted to overturn the 2020 election, but was removed from the case…

 Getty Images Rep. LaMonica McIver, a Democrat from New Jersey, made her initial court appearance on Wednesday after being charged by the Department of Justice for allegedly assaulting ICE agents. Appearing virtually from Washington, D.C., the judge ordered McIver to surrender her firearms and barred her from traveling outside the United States, at least until…

 Getty Images The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service plans to step down after disagreeing with the decision to share tax data on illegal immigrants with federal law enforcement. Commissioner Melanie Krause will become the third IRS leader to leave the agency since the start of the year. The agency has been turbulent because…