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Mario Tama/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — A Clark County, Nevada, judge on Friday dismissed the charges filed by Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford against six so-called “alternate electors” related to their alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in favor of former President Donald Trump. The move makes the Nevada case the […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents case is hearing arguments Friday on the former president’s effort to invalidate the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith. The hearing is focused on a legal theory pushed by conservative legal critics of the special counsel, who has been overseeing the case against […]
seng kui Lim / 500px /Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case will kick off a series of hearings this week on motions to dismiss the case. One of the hearings is expected to focus on a legal theory pushed by conservative legal critics of special counsel Jack […]
Getty Images – STOCK (CHICAGO) — A federal magistrate judge in Chicago on Monday granted a request from families of victims of the 2019 Ethiopian Air Boeing 737 MAX crash to provide the U.S. Department of Justice confidential documents and testimony obtained in their civil lawsuit against Boeing. The families contend the information they want […]
Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — A federal judge has called Florida policies restricting gender-affirming care for minors and adults “unconstitutional,” blocking the state’s policies from being enforced. “Transgender opponents are of course free to hold their beliefs,” Judge Robert L. Hinkle said in the 105-page decision on Florida’s SB 254 and similar Boards of […]
Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The judge who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial in New York made the parties aware Friday of a post to the court system’s Facebook page. In the post, a user said, “My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted Thank you […]
Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2024. (Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE) (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge has ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to surrender to prison by July 1, revoking his bail. The Department of Justice had requested that […]
Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2024. (Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE) (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge will consider the Department of Justice’s request to have former Trump adviser Steve Bannon begin his four-month prison term in connection with his contempt […]
In this July 9, 2003, file photo, Scott Peterson listens during a pretrial hearing in Stanislaus Superior Court, in Modesto, Calif. (Al Golub-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A California judge largely denied a motion by Scott Peterson’s defense team for new or additional DNA testing in his case, as the Los Angeles Innocence Project seeks […]
Raymond Hall/Getty Images (SANTA FE, N.M.) — A New Mexico judge denied Alec Baldwin’s motion to dismiss his involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of “Rust” in an order on Friday. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer found that the prosecutors did not act in “bad faith” to secure a grand […]
