Trump calls on US Supreme Court to not fast-track the election immunity case
Former US President Donald Trump is urging the US Supreme Court to reject a request by Special Counsel Jack Smith to decide quickly on his claim to presidential immunity in the 2020 election subversion case, according to a court filing by his attorneys.
Last week, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether Trump is immune from criminal prosecution on charges of plotting to overthrow the 2020 election. Smith said it was of imperative public importance that Trump's claims of immunity be resolved by the Supreme Court so that his trial can proceed as quickly as possible.
The filing challenged the special counsel's plea for "extraordinary haste," saying that such matters should be decided with caution and deliberation, not at "breakneck speed."
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Former US President Donald Trump is urging the US Supreme Court to reject a request by Special Counsel Jack Smith to decide quickly on his claim to presidential immunity in the 2020 election subversion case, according to a court filing by his attorneys.
Last week, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether Trump is immune from criminal prosecution on charges of plotting to overthrow the 2020 election. Smith said it was of imperative public importance that Trump's claims of immunity be resolved by the Supreme Court so that his trial can proceed as quickly as possible.
"The petition for writ of certiorari before judgment should be denied," Trump's legal team said in a court filing in response on Wednesday.
The filing challenged the special counsel's plea for "extraordinary haste," saying that such matters should be decided with caution and deliberation, not at "breakneck speed."
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Trump Calls on US Supreme Court to Not Fast-Track Election Immunity Case
Former US President Donald Trump is urging the US Supreme Court to reject a request by Special Counsel Jack Smith to decide quickly on his claim to presidential immunity in the 2020 election subversion case, according to a court filing by his attorneys.
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🇦🇷 More than 1,000 protesters on Wednesday gathered at a square in front of the Casa Rosada, Argentina's presidential palace, in a protest against the country's new authorities and their economic policies, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
🔸 Protesters took to the streets of Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, ten days after the inauguration of President Javier Milei to oppose his policy of cutting spending in all areas, which the government itself called "shocking."
🔸 Police later allowed protesters to occupy another street on their way to the presidential palace. Hundreds of people shouted anti-government slogans and moved toward the central square to the presidential palace, escorted by police from all sides.
🔸 Milei and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich were watching the start of protests in Buenos Aires from the police department's building, Argentine broadcaster TN reported.
🔸 According to the media, two people have been detained during the protests.
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🔸 Protesters took to the streets of Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, ten days after the inauguration of President Javier Milei to oppose his policy of cutting spending in all areas, which the government itself called "shocking."
🔸 Police later allowed protesters to occupy another street on their way to the presidential palace. Hundreds of people shouted anti-government slogans and moved toward the central square to the presidential palace, escorted by police from all sides.
🔸 Milei and Security Minister Patricia Bullrich were watching the start of protests in Buenos Aires from the police department's building, Argentine broadcaster TN reported.
🔸 According to the media, two people have been detained during the protests.
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🇻🇪 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro greeted Alex Saab at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Wednesday following his release from US custody. During a joint presser with Saab, Maduro exclaimed that justice had "triumphed."
Saab had been released from US holding as part of a prisoner exchange that saw 10 Americans swapped, six of whom were labeled by the US government as wrongfully detained. Saab had been detained since 2020 on conspiracy charges to commit money laundering, among other alleged offenses.
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Saab had been released from US holding as part of a prisoner exchange that saw 10 Americans swapped, six of whom were labeled by the US government as wrongfully detained. Saab had been detained since 2020 on conspiracy charges to commit money laundering, among other alleged offenses.
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“If the Houthis carry out their plan, of course it will change the course of hostility in Gaza, because Israel will have to deal with the Houthis. So the focus will be directed at Houthis not just on Gaza, not just on Hamas or Islamic Jihad or any other resistance movements,” said Mehmet Rakipoglu, a researcher on international affairs at the London-based think tank Dimensions for Strategic Studies.
Sputnik spoke with several experts about the feasibility of a Yemeni deployment to the Gaza Strip and what the culpability is of the United States in it becoming a regional conflict.
Ankara-based security and political analyst Hasan Selim Ozertem said it “may undermine the regional security further and will not contain the conflict within the borders of Gaza. And this may spill over towards Syria and also to the Red Sea regions.”
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Sputnik spoke with several experts about the feasibility of a Yemeni deployment to the Gaza Strip and what the culpability is of the United States in it becoming a regional conflict.
Ankara-based security and political analyst Hasan Selim Ozertem said it “may undermine the regional security further and will not contain the conflict within the borders of Gaza. And this may spill over towards Syria and also to the Red Sea regions.”
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of issues related to Ukraine's war crimes said Ukrainian troops had shelled the DPR territory 25 times over the past day.
According to the statement, 15 civilians were wounded.
The DPR said that Ukraine fired 79 rounds of various ammunition.
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"Over the past day, the office reported 25 cases of fire by Ukrainian armed forces," the office wrote on Telegram.
According to the statement, 15 civilians were wounded.
The DPR said that Ukraine fired 79 rounds of various ammunition.
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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Hamas would not discuss the release of hostages until a ceasefire first goes into effect, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing Egyptian officials.
Hamas said earlier in the day that Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of its political bureau, arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Wednesday morning to hold talks with Egyptian officials on the situation in the Gaza Strip and other issues.
The report cited Egyptian officials as saying that Haniyeh told intelligence officials in Cairo that he was there to obtain a ceasefire and more humanitarian aid for Gaza.
Islamic Jihad also said that the ceasefire must go into effect before negotiations could start and that Israel must free "all of its thousands of Palestinian prisoners" in return for more than 100 hostages held in Gaza, the report said.
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Hamas said earlier in the day that Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of its political bureau, arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Wednesday morning to hold talks with Egyptian officials on the situation in the Gaza Strip and other issues.
The report cited Egyptian officials as saying that Haniyeh told intelligence officials in Cairo that he was there to obtain a ceasefire and more humanitarian aid for Gaza.
Islamic Jihad also said that the ceasefire must go into effect before negotiations could start and that Israel must free "all of its thousands of Palestinian prisoners" in return for more than 100 hostages held in Gaza, the report said.
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The Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 election ballot is very flawed and not expected to hold up in higher courts, ex-US Justice Department prosecutor Ronald Sievert told Sputnik.
Siever explained that the Colorado Supreme Court's opinion concluded that Trump intended a violent attack on the capitol while ignoring that the former US president said "march peacefully and patriotically." The court also ignored that the day before the January 6 riot, Trump offered to have the National Guard available, which would not be something to consider had he wanted a violent attack on the US Capitol, Sievert said.
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"I believe those conclusions are very flawed," Sievert said on Wednesday. "I also think there is serious debate as to whether what happened on Jan 6th was an 'insurrection' as that word was meant in the Constitution-it was written after a civil war against the Federal Government- as opposed to a big riot," he added.
Siever explained that the Colorado Supreme Court's opinion concluded that Trump intended a violent attack on the capitol while ignoring that the former US president said "march peacefully and patriotically." The court also ignored that the day before the January 6 riot, Trump offered to have the National Guard available, which would not be something to consider had he wanted a violent attack on the US Capitol, Sievert said.
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This will damage the Biden campaign: the backlash caused by Colorado’s recent Trump, ballot ruling
The backlash from the decision will not affect Trump’s campaign, but it will greatly affect President Joe Biden and other Democrats, Daniel Lazare, an author and journalist told Sputnik.
Republicans will view the decision as a partisan effort to remove Trump from the ballot, and will see such a ruling as an attempt to “steal” the presidential election in 2024. That same Republican viewpoint was also the catalyst for the January 6 US capitol attack which has landed Trump in this most recent legal dilemma.
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The backlash from the decision will not affect Trump’s campaign, but it will greatly affect President Joe Biden and other Democrats, Daniel Lazare, an author and journalist told Sputnik.
“I think that for many voters and certainly for most Republican voters this to them is the final proof that the Democrats are weaponizing the judicial system in order to essentially deny and to knock Trump out before he even has a chance of, you know, appearing on the ballot.”
Republicans will view the decision as a partisan effort to remove Trump from the ballot, and will see such a ruling as an attempt to “steal” the presidential election in 2024. That same Republican viewpoint was also the catalyst for the January 6 US capitol attack which has landed Trump in this most recent legal dilemma.
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🇷🇺🎣🇩🇰 Russia refutes Western media claims of fishermen threatening Denmark's security
Western media reports about the threat posed by Russian fishermen to the security of Denmark are a part of the large-scale campaign of the West against Russia and are aimed at destroying the Moscow-Torshavn relationship, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has told Sputnik.
Media have earlier reported that the extension of a fisheries agreement between Russia and the Faroe Islands, which are part of Denmark on the rights of autonomy, would allegedly allow Moscow to "spy on the West" through this territory.
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Western media reports about the threat posed by Russian fishermen to the security of Denmark are a part of the large-scale campaign of the West against Russia and are aimed at destroying the Moscow-Torshavn relationship, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has told Sputnik.
Media have earlier reported that the extension of a fisheries agreement between Russia and the Faroe Islands, which are part of Denmark on the rights of autonomy, would allegedly allow Moscow to "spy on the West" through this territory.
"The basis for the multi-year cooperation between Russia and the Faroe Islands is the agreement between the government of the Soviet Union, on the one hand, and the government of Denmark and the local government of the Faroe Islands, on the other, on mutual relations in fisheries between the Soviet Union and the Faroe Islands of 1977," the spokeswoman clarified.
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🇨🇳 Xi Jinping tells Biden Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China
Xi Jinping told US President Joe Biden during an encounter on the sidelines of the APEC summit in San Francisco that mainland China would reunite with Taiwan, NBC reported, citing three incumbent and former US officials.
🔸 According to the article, the Chinese leader told the US president at a meeting attended by American and Chinese officials that Beijing favors peaceful, not forceful, reintegration of the island.
🔸 Additionally, Xi Jinping denied the claims made by the US military that China plans to "invade" Taiwan in 2025 or 2027.
🔸 Officials familiar with the content of the conversation between Biden and Xi Jinping characterized the Chinese leader as "sharp and outspoken but not confrontational," NBC wrote.
Beijing considers Taiwan as an unalienable part of China’s sovereign territory and opposes any official contacts between the island and other countries.
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Xi Jinping told US President Joe Biden during an encounter on the sidelines of the APEC summit in San Francisco that mainland China would reunite with Taiwan, NBC reported, citing three incumbent and former US officials.
🔸 According to the article, the Chinese leader told the US president at a meeting attended by American and Chinese officials that Beijing favors peaceful, not forceful, reintegration of the island.
🔸 Additionally, Xi Jinping denied the claims made by the US military that China plans to "invade" Taiwan in 2025 or 2027.
🔸 Officials familiar with the content of the conversation between Biden and Xi Jinping characterized the Chinese leader as "sharp and outspoken but not confrontational," NBC wrote.
Beijing considers Taiwan as an unalienable part of China’s sovereign territory and opposes any official contacts between the island and other countries.
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Ever imagined what India would look like if it was situated further north of the Equator?
🇮🇳 ❄️ With the aid of AI, the possibilities are endless: Just picture a breathtaking snow-kissed Mumbai, or Delhi’s streets adorned with captivating decorations, or marvel at the awe-inspiring beauty of the Taj Mahal bathed in the gentle winter light!
Even 🎅🏾Santa would love such a sight!
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🇮🇳 ❄️ With the aid of AI, the possibilities are endless: Just picture a breathtaking snow-kissed Mumbai, or Delhi’s streets adorned with captivating decorations, or marvel at the awe-inspiring beauty of the Taj Mahal bathed in the gentle winter light!
Even 🎅🏾Santa would love such a sight!
*all images were generated using Midjourney
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