Anonymous ID: abb0b8 Sept. 4, 2024, 4:34 p.m. No.21534050   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4061 >>4119 >>4181 >>4272 >>4290

Former California Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero has announced her departure from the Democrat Party, registering as a Republican and endorsing former President Donald Trump for the 2024 election. Romero, who previously held influential positions within the Democrat Party as both Senate Democratic Caucus Chair and Senate Majority Leader, declared her decision in an impassioned public statement on Wednesday.

โ€œToday, I say goodbye. Adios,โ€ Romero began, speaking in front of the California Capitol, the very place where she once held significant power as a leading Democrat. โ€œIโ€™ve had enough. I am now another near lifelong Democrat who is joining the growing number of people, including key groups like Latinos, who are leaving the Democratic Party.โ€

โ€œThis is not the Democratic Party that I once championed. I do not recognize it anymore and I cannot continue. I changed my voting registration today as the sun was rising to Republican, which has under Donald Trump become the champion of working people, the big tent. And indeed, I will vote for Donald Trump this fall.โ€

While Romero did not delve deeply into the specifics of her grievances with the party, she mentioned that several issues motivated her decision.

 

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-former-california-senate-majority-leader-flips-to-republican-endorses-trump-mace/

Anonymous ID: abb0b8 Sept. 4, 2024, 4:42 p.m. No.21534096   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4107 >>4119 >>4181 >>4272 >>4290

By Misty Severi

Published: September 4, 2024 4:47pm

A former Virginia police officer on Wednesday became the first January 6 defendant to receive a reduced sentence after the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of an obstruction charge used against Jan. 6 rioters.

The Supreme Court in June made it more difficult to charge the defendants with obstruction but charges can still be brought if prosecutors can prove that rioters were intentionally trying to stop the arrival of certificates used to certify electoral votes during the riot.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper re-sentenced Thomas Robertson in his January 6 case to six years in prison, instead of just over seven years, per NBC News. Robertson was convicted on six charges in 2022, but prosecutors moved to dismiss the obstruction charge on Wednesday.

Robertson was also convicted on a separate obstruction charge, which remains, because he destroyed evidence after the riot by placing his phone, and the phone of a colleague who was also at the riot, into an ammo can and dumping them in a lake.

 

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/january-6-defendant-receives-reduced-sentence-after-supreme-court-ruling