Latest Stories By Louis Jacobson

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump, recently tried to draw Black voters to Trump’s side, but a comparison he made involving the Jim Crow era drew criticism from Democrats. At a June 4 event in Philadelphia, Donalds compared today’s Black culture with that of the Jim Crow era, when […]

Al expresidente Donald Trump lo declararon culpable de varios delitos graves, por la falsificación de registros comerciales, en un supuesto plan para encubrir un pago a la actriz de cine para adultos Stormy Daniels.  El juez que preside el caso, Juan Merchan, dictará la sentencia el 11 de julio y será una decisión histórica en […]

En un momento trascendental en la historia política y jurídica de Estados Unidos, el pasado 30 de mayo, un jurado de Manhattan declaró al expresidente Donald Trump, culpable de varios delitos graves.  El jurado tomó una decisión unánime  y concluyó que Trump es culpable de los 34 cargos de falsificación de registros comerciales, en un […]

In remarks from Trump Tower almost nine years after he launched his first presidential campaign there, former President Donald Trump lashed out about his Manhattan trial and sought to defend his record and his character. Trump criticized a judicial gag order and the prosecution that one day earlier resulted in 34 felony convictions for falsifying […]

In a landmark moment in U.S. political and legal history, a Manhattan jury on May 30 found former President Donald Trump guilty of multiple felony counts. A unanimous jury in the New York case concluded that Trump was guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to cover up a hush […]

A Manhattan jury is likely to soon deliver a verdict in the case against former President Donald Trump, a decision that will have implications for the 2024 presidential campaign. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in an alleged scheme to cover up a hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy […]

Media reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house displayed an upside-down American flag, a traditional sign of political dissent, after the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, set off a firestorm of criticism over whether the move was a political statement that compromises his impartiality.  Hanging the flag upside-down is technically against […]

President Joe Biden’s decision this month to pause a shipment of heavy weaponry to Israel amid that country’s war against Hamas in Gaza was widely seen as an effort to  discourage a full-scale attack on Rafah that could kill large numbers of civilians. Critics, however, characterized the pause as an unprecedented departure from the United States’ […]

By 320-91 vote, the House on May 1 passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act.  The bill came to a vote amid pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses against the Israel-Hamas war that some Jewish students said they found threatening. It produced an unusual lineup of supporters and detractors. Although the legislation passed easily and with bipartisan support, […]

President Joe Biden repeated several claims about the economy during a May 8 interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett.  A day earlier, PolitiFact published a similar assessment of claims about the economy made by former President Donald Trump, Biden’s expected challenger in November, in an interview with WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Here’s a rundown of Biden’s […]

Former President Donald Trump repeated a bevy of inaccurate claims on the economy during an interview with WGAL-TV, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, television station. Here is a rundown. Trump policies “created the greatest, strongest economy in the history of our country, probably in the history of the world.” Economists have previously told PolitiFact that this is […]

Could former President Donald Trump choose Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as his 2024 running mate? Rubio’s getting a lot of attention, along with other possible vice presidential picks. Selecting Rubio would require some constitutional two-stepping. Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution says that, when the Electoral College meets to determine the president, “the […]