#Politics From #CNN: DC Appeals Court stays #Trump gag order pending review.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/chutkan-trump-gag-order-freeze/index.html

#Politics From #CNN:

#Trump #J6 co-conspirator John Eastman found "preliminarily culpable" in California state bar disciplinary case, could eventually face disbarment.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/eastman-california-bar-disciplinary-case/index.html

#Politics From #CNN:

Judge in #Trump New York tax fraud trial extends gag order to Trump's attorneys after they criticized the judge's clerk.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/trump-gag-order-engoron-clerk/index.html

#Politics From #CNN:

No surprise, #Trump appointed judge Aileen Cannon suggests she's going to postpone his classified documents trial indefinitely because the prosecution doesn't show "a level of understanding" for how hard this is for the defense team. 🙄

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/01/politics/florida-hearing-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-trial/index.html

#Politics From #CNN:

#Trump former VP Mike Pence announced today at a Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas that he has suspended his presidential run.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/28/politics/pence-suspends-campaign-for-president/index.html

#Politics From #FloridaToday:

#DeSantis crony forced to resign from #Florida housing corporation after disparaging remarks about female employees. He was suspended, DeSantis reappointed him, he did it again, so the board fired him.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/10/27/an-investigation-into-michael-dinapoli-a-desantis-ally-ends/71342992007/

#Politics From #WaPo:

Elon Musk promoted disinformation tweets about #Hamas on Zombie Twitter from two accounts. One account was paid $16,000 for creating content for X.

https://wapo.st/3s9JZ1E

#Politics From #CNN:

Federal judge tosses gerrymanded Georgia congressional district maps as harming Black voters.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/politics/georgia-legislative-maps-order/index.html

#Politics By the way, the U.S. unemployment rate for the last year has been 3.8%. Our new House Speaker yesterday said that the unemployment rate was "17% over the last two years." He hadn't been Speaker for five minutes before he started misleading the American public.

#Politics From #CNN:

Oh no! The economy is as healthy as ever! Republicans have to continue lying!

"Gross domestic product, a measure of all goods and services produced in the economy, grew at an annualized 4.9% rate in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. GDP is adjusted for inflation and seasonal swings.
That’s well above the second quarter’s 2.1% pace and faster than economists’ expectations of a 4.3% rate."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/economy/us-economy-third-quarter-gdp/index.html

#Politics #J6 From #CNN:

Fulton County DA is discussing plea deals with at least six other #Trump election fraud defendants.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/fulton-county-da-is-discussing-plea-deals-with-at-least-5-more-trump-co-defendants/index.html

#Politics Update from #CNN on the #Trump NYC civil fraud trial ... Trump left the courtroom after the judge denied a motion to dismiss the trial.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-civil-fraud-trial-10-25-23/index.html

#Politics from #CNN: Judge Engoron fines #Trump $10,000 for violating gag order a second time, has ordered Trump to take the stand to explain himself.🍿

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-civil-fraud-trial-10-25-23/index.html

#Politics The final vote appears to be:

Johnson (R) 220
Jeffries (D) 209

No Others or Present.

#Politics Mike Johnson has 218. He's the new Speaker.

#Politics House Speaker still counting. As of now:

Johnson 129
Jeffries 108

No "Other" votes, i.e. no Republican defections.

#Politics We're over 100 votes so far. No Republican has voted for anyone other than Johnson. Methinks they're going to get across the finish line this time.

#Politics The House Speaker vote is being called now. For some reason, #CSPAN dropped out and then changed the YouTube link. Here's the new link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkKUDT2VTLQ

#Politics When they start to broadcast circa 12 PM EDT, here's the YouTube link for the C-SPAN coverage of House Speaker Lollapalooza Day 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lww0mSZLGIs

#Politics According to #CNN, House Speaker Lollapalooza begins at 12 PM EDT. I'll post a YouTube link if/when it's available.

So far, no public Republican opposition has emerged, so maybe Johnson gets through.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-speaker-vote-10-25-23/index.html