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Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith is in active talks with senior leadership at the Justice Department evaluating ways he can end his prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The decision is based on longstanding Department of Justice policy that a sitting president cannot face […]
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s lengthy court brief seeking to justify his latest superseding indictment against former President Donald Trump on charges that he sought to subvert the 2020 election has been filed under seal with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, a spokesperson for Smith’s office confirmed to ABC News Thursday. […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case on Tuesday granted special counsel Jack Smith’s request to file a 180-page brief on presidential immunity, including potential new evidence in the case. Smith faces a Thursday deadline to file his opening brief about how the Supreme Court’s ruling on […]
Ian Maule/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Special counsel Jack Smith filed his argument Monday urging the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a federal judge’s surprise dismissal of former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon last month threw out the case against Trump that charged him with unlawfully retaining classified […]
amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Marion, Kansas Police Chief Gideon Cody has been charged over his handling of an investigation that involved raiding the offices of a local newspaper and the home of its publishers, court records showed. Cody was charged with one count of interfering with a judicial process, a felony. Special Prosecutor […]
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office requested a delay Thursday in responding to a scheduling order from the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s federal election subversion case, citing issues related to the Supreme Court’s decision that granted presidents immunity from prosecution for certain acts taken while in office. In a joint […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday filed an official notice of appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s order dismissing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case. Judge Cannon, in a surprising ruling Monday, dismissed the case on the grounds that Smith’s appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional because he […]
Donald Trump is addressing the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority Conference at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, on June 22, 2024. (Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — A trip to Mar-a-Lago taken by former President Donald Trump that aides allegedly “kept quiet” just weeks before FBI agents searched the property for classified […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special Counsel Jack Smith on Friday took the extraordinary step of seeking an order from the federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case to bar Trump from making statements that could pose a significant risk to law enforcement. The request follows Trump’s efforts to seize on an […]
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Prosecutors plan to use Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as evidence in an upcoming trial to help them prove that the president’s son unlawfully obtained a firearm in 2018. Special counsel David Weiss wrote Wednesday that “the defendant’s laptop is real (it will be introduced as a trial exhibit) and it […]