Thursday’s election comes as lawmakers are preparing to return to Nashville later this month.
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Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election
The next hearing in Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy case has been set for Aug. 28, just days after the first debate in the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
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Should Trump go to jail? The 2024 election could become a referendum on that question
Critics have long alleged that Trump’s fear of prosecution was a chief motivator for his decision to mount another campaign.
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Congressional delegation, Maine Republican leaders react cautiously to newest Trump indictment
Only Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat, offered a pointed response to the former president’s latest legal troubles.
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Pence fought an order to testify but now is a central figure in his former boss’s indictment
The 45-page indictment is informed, in part, by contemporaneous notes that Mike Pence kept of their conversations in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Mills signs executive order to begin creation of a state Office for New Americans
It’s the first step by her administration to create a centralized place to assist the growing number of immigrants coming to Maine.
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The election-meddling indictment against Trump is sprawling. Here’s a breakdown of the case
The charges are built around the words of Trump’s advisers, White House lawyers and others in his inner circle who repeatedly told him there was no fraud n the 2020 election.
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Read the federal indictment charging Trump for efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss
The former president is charged with 4 counts.
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Sheila Oliver, New Jersey’s lieutenant governor and a prominent Black leader, dies at 71
No cause of death was given. The governor’s office said Oliver had been hospitalized Monday.
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Trump indicted for efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss
The indictment, the 3rd criminal case brought against the former president as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024, follows a long-running federal investigation.