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Trump’s gambit to bury Jack Smith report past midterms about to collapse: ex-prosecutorA former federal prosecutor predicts President Donald Trump's latest bid to keep former special counsel Jack Smith's report hidden is about to fall apart. Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney, said in a Thursday episode of "Talking Feds" that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is likely to reject a request from Trump and co-defendant Walt Nauta to delay a…
Trump DOJ sparks furor by targeting former White House aide with 'mafia-like chaos'Outrage erupted Thursday after reports revealed that Donald Trump’s Justice Department is seeking a criminal indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide whose explosive testimony helped expose the president’s actions surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division presented…
DOJ Seeks to Prosecute Star Witness in Jan. 6 Probe Who Claimed Trump Tried to Join RiotersIn what appears to be its latest effort to target President Donald Trump's political foes, the US Department of Justice is reportedly seeking criminal charges against former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a star witness in Congress' investigation of the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Punchbowl News reported on Thursday that the…
Arizona House candidate said she was raped while fixing campaign signsContent warning: This story references incidents of sexual assault. Bernadette Greene-Placentia, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Arizona, shared publicly for the first time that she was raped while fixing campaign signs over the summer. Greene-Placentia told her story to the local outlet Phoenix New Times, which published the account on Wednesday.…
Rogue Judges Handed Major Loss In ‘Unconstitutional’ Scheme To Remove Their ColleagueA 99-year-old federal judge scored a major win on Tuesday in her fight against an “unconstitutional” effort to remove her from the bench. According to a new court order, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts transferred the judicial misconduct case of Federal Circuit Court Judge Pauline Newman from the Federal Circuit to the 11th Circuit […]
Threat of abrupt Alito and Thomas retirements has conservatives panicked over backlashRepublicans are weighing whether elderly Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito could announce their retirements right after next month’s midterm election, according to Politico, and whether that would help or hurt the party.On one hand, a departure could let President Donald Trump ...
'Horrific' attack on congressional candidate sends shockwaves: 'There are no words'A Democratic congressional candidate's harrowing account of an attack on the campaign trail drew horrified reactions online from journalists and politicians. Bernadette Greene-Placentia , who is challenging Republican Rep. Abe Hamadeh in Arizona's 8th Congressional District, told the Phoenix New Times in a story published Wednesday that she was struck…