Banker wife fails in bid to overturn ‘McMafia’ asset freeze: Woman who spent £16m shopping at Harrods loses appeal against £22million confiscation order Supreme Court upholds 2 unexplained wealth orders against jailed banker’s wife Zamira Hajiyeva has lost her appeal against a £22million confiscation order The couple, who deny all wrongdoing, were subjects of UK’s … Read more
‘Never even given our day in Court!’ Trump fumes after SCOTUS refuses to hear Texas AG’s bid to overturn Biden’s election victory as he calls for Republican governors of Arizona and Georgia to be voted out Trump reacted with fury after Supreme Court on Friday refused to hear the case Seven justices declined to hear … Read more
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Republicans’ last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground. The court without comment refused to call into question the the certification process in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf already has certified Biden’s victory and the state’s 20 electors are to meet on Dec. … Read more
An IT consultant is launching legal action at the High Court after claiming his human rights were breached when his ex-wife was able to divorce him because he ‘worked too much and never went on holiday.’ Charles Ayeh-Kumi, 64, from Farnborough, Hampshire, is mounting the legal action later this month to challenge what he says are … Read more
Donald Trump has called Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to pressure him to help overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state and to get him to order another signature audit of votes, hours before the president heads to a rally to support David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the Senate runoffs. The president contacted the Republican governor … Read more
Protesters taken to court after preventing a deportation flight from taking off from Stansted Airport today challenged their convictions at the Court of Appeal. The ‘Stansted 15’ cut through the Essex airport’s perimeter fence and locked themselves together around a Boeing 767 jet chartered by the Home Office to transport people from UK detention centres … Read more
A law firm representing the Trump campaign in its claims of fraud seeking to overturn the election results in battleground Pennsylvania has withdrawn from the case. The law firm of Ohio-based Porter Wright Morris & Arthur had brought the suit claiming Pennsylvania’s ‘two-tiered’ voting system was illegal. Its expansive case called into question millions of … Read more
Donald Trump said Thursday he will overturn the ‘ridiculous order’ of US Navy SEALs removing the words ‘brotherhood’ and ‘man’ from its ethos. In a tweet responding to the news, the president wrote: ‘I will be overturning this ridiculous order immediately!’ The Navy has removed gendered words from its official SEAL ethos, changing them to ‘citizen’ … Read more
Joe Biden has warned that Donald Trump’s choice of new Supreme Court justice would get rid of Obamacare, repeating once again his demand that a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg not be appointed until after the election. Biden said that Amy Coney Barrett, officially announced as Trump’s nominee on Saturday evening, was known to be … Read more
An entrepreneur who moved a Playboy model into the luxury flat he shared with his ex-wife during their messy divorce has lost a bid to take a larger slice of their fortune. Richard Rothschild, 45, was last year handed just £26,000, which he claims left him ‘penniless’ compared to the millions awarded to 46-year-old Charmaine … Read more