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Michael M Santiago/GettyImagesDonald Trump tried to convince a state judge to drop his Georgia election interference case on Thursday, summoning a tortured relationship between falsehoods and truths to make his case.
Trump's lawyers argued that lies aren't just protected by the First Amendment; lies are sometimes essential, his lawyers said, at getting to the truth.
The morning's court hearing could prove a pivotal step as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis works her criminal case against the former president to trial. Judge Scott McAfee, who recently delivered a blow to the DA's office by probing her romantic relationship with a prosecutor she supervised, is now considering whether Trump's persistent lies about 2020 election fraud are constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyMarilyn Lands has just won the special election for Alabama House District 10—a district where she, a Democrat who speaks openly about having an abortion, was a startling break from the status quo—by a whopping 25 percentage points. She could be basking in the glow of her victory or out celebrating with the family and friends who attended her watch party last night. But Lands is already looking toward the future.
"It gives me a lot of hope for this state in 2026," she said Wednesday in an interview from her home in Huntsville. "I hope that this will be the start of us winning some more seats in 2026 and really beginning to break that [Republican] super majority."
Lands, 65, is a mother and licensed mental health counselor who, infuriated with Alabama's decision to outlaw abortion and briefly ban IVF, decided to run a campaign in the deep South focused heavily on reproductive rights.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Kent Nishimura/Getty ImagesKari Lake is all but throwing in the towel against an Arizona election official who sued her for defamation, notifying a court on Tuesday she has no intention of defending her claims that he deliberately wrecked her gubernatorial campaign in 2022.
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a 38-year-old Republican, filed his lawsuit last June. He said Lake had falsely accused him of "intentionally [printing] 19-inch images on 20-inch ballots," resulting in the counting of 300,000 "illegal, invalid, phony or bogus" early ballots.
She also targeted him on social media, according to the complaint, assailing him as an "incompetent, corrupt fool" and a "reprehensible human being."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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