One of Richard Nixon's most famous quotes...right up there with "I am not a crook"... had to do with presidential immunity.
"When the president does it" he said "that means that it is not illegal." That idea – that you can't prosecute someone for actions taken as president - the Supreme Court has never actually ruled on it.
On Thursday, the Justices will take a crack, with the federal election interference case against former president Donald Trump hanging in the balance.
We preview how things might go.
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President Joe Biden will be the commencement speaker for Georgia's Morehouse College and at West Point next month. The Morehouse appearance in Atlanta gives Biden a key election-year platform on one of the nation's preeminent historically Black campuses.
Last week, Republican lawmakers passed a new bill that would allow the removal of people from the voting rolls through challenges to voter eligibility. It awaits Kemp's signature or veto.
TikTok has come under fire for its addictive algorithm and for being a place where misinformation spreads. But still, there is one institution that thinks TikTok actually has the potential to be a source of good in our world: Harvard. To be more specific, it's the Harvard Chan Center for Health Communication.
To hear more about how the center is working with TikTok influencers to share researched information with the public, host Brittany Luse is joined by Kate Speer. Kate started as a mental health TikToker, but was recently hired as a marketing director for the Harvard Chan Center for Health Communication. Kate also shares her mental health journey and what it's been like to work within a mental health system that harmed her.
Then, Brittany looks at the history left out of the new Netflix film, Shirley, which follows the presidential run of Shirley Chisholm. Brittany sits down with Dr. Anastasia C. Curwood, author of Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics, to discuss what came before the historic race. They talk about how Shirley's various identities informed her approach, and scan for her fingerprint on American electoral politics today.
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Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan has ruled out a 2024 No Labels presidential bid. The Republican had been in communication with No Labels in recent weeks about running for the White House under the centrist group's banner and was a leading contender in its push to recruit a presidential nominee.
To help cover the 2024 election, GPB News will be working with America Amplified an organization partnering with public media newsrooms across the nation to more deeply engage the communities we serve.
The political debate seems to have become an endangered species, and there are no assurances we'll see Trump, Biden or Haley share the stage this year.
There isn’t time to remove QR codes from paper ballots in Georgia, as Republican legislative leaders have proposed, before this year’s elections, GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Wednesday.
The two parties that have historically dominated Taiwanese electoral politics are trying to sell voters their visions of the island's future – starting with the issue of China.
Voters in Bangladesh cast ballots Sunday in an election fraught with violence and a boycott from the main opposition party, paving the way for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to seize a fourth term.
The results of the Dec. 20 election were announced amid calls from the opposition and civil society groups for the vote to be rerun due to logistical problems they said had undermined the balloting.
