Kenneth Tiven

The Trump Administration lost the US presidential election popular vote, the Electoral College vote, and then lost 59 court cases trying to overturn the defeat that signaled the end of a controversial president.

By Kenneth Tiven in the ...

If the latest effort by Donald Trump to overturn the US Presidential election were to succeed it would be the Neutron Bomb of legal affairs, killing million of votes but leaving the Supreme Court Building standing, with the justices alive but in questionable repute.

It six weeks the Biden Administration takes charge, but is wasting no time organizing its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic surging in America. Thursday saw infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci named as Biden’s chief medical adviser.

The eyes of the world are on the President-elect and the new team he has assembled to help him restore America’s global standing, badly undermined by Donald Trump. What lies ahead, judging by the names on his A Team, for India and a new world order?

Opposition to a peaceful presidential transition between the Donald Trump Administration and the incoming Joseph Biden Administration in Washington has shifted to what some observers are calling outright destruction of the American federal government.

Republicans have already signalled that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks he will wield veto power over Biden’s Cabinet nominees. McConnell has done more than any human being in recent history to destroy Senate bipartisanship entirely, transforming American politics into a naked war for power.

US President elect Joe Biden’s nearly 50 years in public life and a well-formed philosophy on democracy suggest that the two largest democracies in the world are likely to find a comfortable relationship, but not without some disagreements.

All 50 states in the USA have opened their polling places in the presidential election. Most East coast time zone states close the polls by 8PM EST, or 03:30 IST. So initial election results will probably be available around then, indicating the direction of the election.

Today the world watches to see whom America chooses as leader for the next four years. Many events and decisions mark President Donald Trump’s performance.