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  • Feb 16, 2024 | thehill.com | Amée LaTour

    Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered former President Trump to pay $355 million in New York Attorney General Letitia James‘s (D) civil fraud case, which accused Trump of inflating his assets for tax and insurance benefits. It’s a major financial blow to Trump, who was already ordered by a jury to pay $83.3 million to author E. Jean Carroll for defamation in a separate case after he denied her sexual assault allegation.

  • Feb 15, 2024 | thehill.com | Amée LaTour

    Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), the prosecutor leading the election subversion case in Georgia against former President Trump and several co-defendants, herself took the stand Thursday as a judge weighs whether she’ll be disqualified from the case.

  • Feb 14, 2024 | thehill.com | Amée LaTour

    BOTH PARTIES are seeking to put their spin on the results of this week’s special election in New York, which flipped a red seat blue and has each side tangling over whether it represents a sign of what’s to come in November. For Democrats, Tom Suozzi‘s (D) win in New York’s 3rd District represented a rejection of the GOP over Congress’ failed border deal, which Senate Republicans blocked amid stringent Republican opposition in the House.

  • Feb 13, 2024 | thehill.com | Amée LaTour

    Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is facing mounting pressure from President Biden and bipartisan members of the upper chamber to bring the Senate-passed Ukraine funding package to the House floor for a vote. The $95 billion foreign aid package, which includes money for Ukraine, Israel, the Indo-Pacific and more, cleared the Senate in a predawn vote Tuesday, but faces tougher GOP opposition in the House.

  • Feb 12, 2024 | thehill.com | Amée LaTour

    The theme at the Capitol this week: Congress tries again. IN THE HOUSE, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is hoping for a different outcome on an impeachment vote against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The resolution narrowly failed last week, but with Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) returning from cancer treatment and supporting the resolution, it could pass the chamber if all else stays the same.

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Amée LaTour
Amée LaTour @Amee_LaTour
20 Aug 23

Shawn Wilson, the Democrat likely to make the runoff election, faces a heavy lift as the party looks to hold on to its only governor’s mansion in the Deep South. https://t.co/EDOnwf3VlS

Amée LaTour
Amée LaTour @Amee_LaTour
14 Aug 23

Excellent piece from @ByEllaLee, @RebeccaBeitsch and @ZachASchonfeld. "While the Georgia case would deal with a narrower set of facts than the Justice Department‘s election interference case, ... in many ways it’s a broader case." https://t.co/AZDePzLFtp

Amée LaTour
Amée LaTour @Amee_LaTour
16 Apr 23

RT @ukpoliscidept: Prof. @DStephenVoss in @thehill with @treswatson @ScottJenningsKY & @TJLitafik on the Kentucky gubernatorial primary. P…