WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal appeals court Monday to reinstate the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump after it was dismissed by a judge last month. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon threw out the case, one of four prosecutions of Trump, after concluding that Smith’s appointment as special … Read more
Attorney General Merrick Garland weighed in on former President Donald Trump’s now-scrapped classified documents case on Tuesday, arguing that he wouldn’t make a “basic mistake when selecting a special counsel to lead the probe. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case against Trump, ruling that Garland’s appointment of a special counsel … Read more
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) will move within days to force a vote on having the House sergeant-at-arms forcibly bring Attorney General Merrick Garland before the House by holding him in “inherent contempt” over his refusal to turn over audio of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. Luna sent a letter to her … Read more
Special counsel Jack Smith released the photos Monday in response to a motion filed by Trump lawyers to toss out the indictment against the former president. The motion seeks to suppress all evidence seized during the FBI’s court-authorized search in 2022, arguing that the agents conducting the search didn’t maintain the order of the documents … Read more
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A federal prosecutor in the classified documents case of Donald Trump clashed with the judge Monday as he faced skeptical questioning over a request to bar the former president from making threatening comments about law enforcement agents involved in the investigation. Special counsel Jack Smith’s team is seeking to make … Read more
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Donald Trump appointee assigned to his classified documents case, rejected calls from more experienced judges to step aside from the case, The New York Times reported Thursday. Two of Cannon’s more seasoned colleagues on the federal bench in Florida, including the chief judge in the state’s southern district, reportedly … Read more
(NewsNation) — Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, was among the Republican House members voting in favor of holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress Wednesday. Garland has refused to turn over the audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interview with Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating the classified documents discovered at a Biden office and … Read more
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Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump are due in court Wednesday for the first time since the judge indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month. The case, among four criminal prosecutions against Trump, had been set for trial on May 20 but US District Judge Aileen Cannon … Read more
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