Vice President Kamala Harris has won enough votes from Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison announced.

Project 2025: What is it? Who is behind it? How is it connected to Trump?

Project 2025 Policy Agenda prepared by the Heritage Foundation.

GOP blasts California and “out-of-touch coastal elites ruining the country“.

Trump guilty on all 34 counts in the Hush Money case.

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron handed Donald J. Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case, finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a penalty of $355 million that could wipe out his entire stockpile of cash.  He also can’t operate in NYC for 3 years.

The ex-president was found liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, but called her a liar. The award was “a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down,” she said.

The staff of the Atlantic writes on the threat a second Trump term poses to American democracy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/warning-second-trump-term/676117/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/donald-trump-second-term-policies/676176/

The special counsel, Jack Smith, urged the justices to move with exceptional speed, and they quickly agreed to fast-track the first phase of the case.  Click here.

For the fourth time this year, Donald Trump turned himself in to authorities after being indicted on criminal charges — but it was the first time the former president was required to pose for a mug shot.