Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Monday that President Donald Trump’s decision to extend a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest short video app TikTok’s U.S. assets violates the law. Senator Mark Warner also said the reported likely deal under consideration would not meet legal requirements for eliminating ByteDance’s …
Checks out https://t.co/cDCK2IBkaL — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2025
Judge finds Trump in contempt for violating gag order as trial continues Updated 11:19 a.m. ET, April 30, 2024 Judge Juan Merchan ruled Donald Trump violated the gag order nine times for criticizing expected trial witnesses in posts on social media and his campaign page. Trump must pay the $9,000 fine by the end of …
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) passed a massive $1.2 trillion government funding plan despite the objections of the majority of House Republicans, violating the Hastert Rule and crossing the Rubicon into dangerous territory for the future of his speakership. House Republicans enacted the longstanding rule to prohibit Republican Speakers from colluding with Democrats to pass legislation. …
Hungary’s new law on “protecting national sovereignty”, which the ruling Fidesz party said was necessary to protect against foreign political interference, violates European Union law, the European Commission said on Wednesday. The Commission said it had sent Hungary a formal notice that it would open an infringement procedure over the law https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-tells-hungary-its-sovereignty-law-violates-eu-law-2024-02-07/ Under Hungary's new …
The FBI’s seizure of contents from safe deposit boxes during a raid on a Beverly Hills vault in 2021 violated the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled on Jan. 23. Agents raided U.S. Private Vaults, a business that allowed people to rent safe deposit boxes anonymously, based on the belief that criminals were using …