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New Mexico secretary of state asks state attorney general to investigate county commission refusing to certify election results

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver on Thursday asked the state’s attorney general to investigate a GOP-led county commission that refused to certify the results of a recent primary election. In the referral to Attorney General Hector Balderas, a fellow Democrat, Oliver said members of the Otero County Commission

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Alaska lineup set: Palin, Begich, Gross and Peltola will advance to top-four special election, CNN projects

By Eric Bradner, CNN Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, will face Republican businessman Nick Begich III, independent orthopedic surgeon Al Gross and Democratic former state Rep. Mary Peltola in the August special general election for the state’s at-large US House seat, CNN projects. The four candidates advanced from

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Exclusive: Retired Republican judge says January 6 was ‘well-developed plan’ by Trump to cling to power

By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, a Republican who is testifying at Thursday’s January 6 committee hearing, will provide a sharp condemnation of former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, saying Trump and his allies “instigated” a war on democracy “so that he

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Exclusive: Retired Republican judge says January 6 was ‘well-developed plan’ by Trump to cling to power

By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, a Republican who is testifying at Thursday’s January 6 committee hearing, will provide a sharp condemnation of former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, saying Trump and his allies “instigated” a war on democracy “so that he

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January 6 committee has emails between Ginni Thomas and John Eastman

By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer, Katelyn Polantz and Chandelis Duster, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack is in possession of email correspondence between conservative attorney John Eastman and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a conservative activist who’s the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a source familiar

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