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A judge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week ruled in favor of a case that has serious implications for free speech by employers when talking about unions, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Judge Brian Gee found that the NLRB was correct in its assertion that certain comments made in interviews in 2022 by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor law amid a national unionization campaign at the company. Jassy’s comments were about how union members would be “better off” without a union because there would be less red tape between employees and management, and came as the Biden administration has pushed to promote unionization. However, the judge’s decision could significantly chill free speech.

Like so many Americanos, I'm spending more time than I should listening to news out of Manhattan, where the local prosecutor there has charged the leading Republican candidate for president with 34 felony counts of being Donald Trump. I challenge anyone to find more than this in the charges and specifications. I really should ration myself on trial news. I could even take a day off. I'm beginning to know how Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day must have felt as though the news out of the trial is pretty much the same from day to day.

Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell described his "Choose How You Move" transportation referendum as "very progressive" in a Wednesday interview, highlighting the endeavor as one of the most progressive acts of his administration. O'Connell was asked by The Guardian, which describes itself as "the world's leading liberal voice," to what level he views himself "as a progressive leader in a state that is not politically progressive" following the 2022 redistricting process that split Nashville between multiple congressional districts.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake announced on Tuesday the formation of the Families Fighting Fentanyl Coalition.  This initiative is part of her ongoing campaign to address what she perceives as a severe crisis fueled by inadequate border controls under President Joe Biden's administration.

Despite President Biden’s poor polling numbers, Democrats are out-fundraising Republicans in the 2024 election cycle where the GOP could retake the White House and Senate. The Republican Party is significantly behind the Democratic Party in fundraising as former President Donald Trump is facing criminal charges on state and federal levels and Biden is viewed very unfavorably by Americans. However, the new Republican National Committee chairman is hopeful for the 2024 election as donations are starting to pour in amid Trump’s trials.

Republican El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells cited a surge in border encounters as proof of federal enforcement failures, Newsweek reported. Wells pointed out the concerning surge in border encounters within San Diego County, noting a major shift in migration patterns and federal border enforcement efforts. He stated that San Diego County experienced an unprecedented 37,370 border encounters in April, exceeding the figures in sectors like Tucson, El Paso, and Del Rio for the first time in over two decades. Wells expressed astonishment and concern over the escalating border encounter numbers, according to Newsweek.

CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said porn star Stormy Daniels' responses to attorneys for former President Donald Trump were "disastrous" for the prosecution's case. Daniels testified Tuesday about her alleged relationship with Trump, providing salacious and irrelevant details that prompted Trump's attorneys to move for a mistrial, which New York Judge Juan Merchan rejected. Honig said that the cross-examination of Daniels by Trump's attorneys "went poorly" for Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Since 1960, Democrats have won the popular vote in 10 out of the last 16 presidential elections, and thanks to a combination of historical realignment (beginning during the 1930s), presidential coattails and the incumbency advantage, have also won U.S. House majorities in 11 out of those 16 contests, oftentimes with super majorities. The modern story over U.S. House control, and therefore legislatively shaping the society of laws we live in presently, begins in 1932 when Franklin Roosevelt and Democrats utterly crushed Herbert Hoover’s reelection bid, winning 57.4 percent of the popular vote and 42 states to Hoover’s meager 39.6 percent and 6 states.

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to table Georgia firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's petition to remove Mike Johnson on Wednesday.

The judge presiding over the case against former President Donald Trump involving allegations surrounding classified documents indefinitely postponed the trial date Tuesday.

Six months before Election Day, Milwaukee’s mayor has made a change at the top of his city’s elections commission. Mayor Cavalier Johnson on Monday announced Paulina Gutiérrez as the new executive director of Milwaukee’s Election Commission.

We are in the midst of a presidential campaign year. It’s supposed to be the Super Bowl for political junkies like me. But it feels strange and muted, and, so far, its vibe is uncomfortably similar to 2020. The 2020 election was strange because of COVID, which became a pretext to change the rules in order to rig the outcome. This time, there is no such excuse for a "basement campaign." It's true that Biden is old, feeble, and unpopular. And Trump has been sidelined, quite deliberately, by a malicious New York judge who won’t allow him to travel and conduct his signature rallies. The problem, however, now infects all electoral politics.

Prosecutors finally displayed the documents at the heart of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against former President Donald Trump on Monday, but have yet to establish a direct link to demonstrate Trump's culpability. Until Monday, prosecutors had been focused on setting up other pieces of their case: the context for the $130,000 payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about claims of a sexual encounter and the broader "conspiracy" to influence the 2016 election they allege Trump was involved in. Monday's witnesses — former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney and Trump Organization accounts payable supervisor Deborah Tarasoff — offered starkly different testimony than earlier witnesses like David Pecker and Keith Davidson, providing no salacious celebrity stories and an almost exclusive focus on accounting.

A Republican-led Senate Special Committee on Investigations focused on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' use of county tax dollars to investigate former President Donald Trump. The work of the Senate Special Committee on Investigations, created with the passage of Senate Resolution 465, could rank among the most-watched state committees of the year, especially considering its potential impact on this November's presidential election. The committee's focus includes allegations that Willis had an affair with Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor formerly on the case.

An influential left-of-center donor’s charity launched an initiative compelling other philanthropies to pour money into voter mobilization efforts ahead of the 2024 elections. Democracy Fund, which was founded and is funded by liberal philanthropist Pierre Omidyar, has rallied a group of 174 organizations and individuals pledging to expedite their disbursement of grants related to efforts including get-out-the-vote operations. The pledge calls on its signatories to either make the bulk of their election-related donations by the end of April, to "move up" disbursements scheduled for later in the year or to streamline their grant approval processes.