The comedic actor behind memorable roles in “Bob’s Burgers” and “Anchorman” has taken a new role: incarcerated felon. Jay James Johnston, 55, was sentenced to one year in prison for participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The riot interrupted Congress’ certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral win and forced lawmakers and...
Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has asked a federal judge to grant summary judgment “in its entirety” tossing out Hunter Biden’s defamation lawsuit or to at least rule that President Joe Biden’s son is a public figure who cannot show that claims of “treasonous crimes” involving his father, bribery, Iran, and “nuclear talks” were made...
Lawyers for the Commonwealth of Virginia have asked the chief justice of the United States to allow the state to enforce an executive order from Gov. Glenn Youngkin that some say risks forcing legitimately registered voters off the voting rolls just days before the 2024 presidential election. Youngkin, a Republican, wants the state to purge...
Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney in a civil lawsuit has asked a state court to put an immediate stop to the $1 million daily lottery that Elon Musk’s pro-Donald Trump America PAC has dangled to registered voters who sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments, a matter of days after the U.S. Department of...
Defense lawyers for Donald Trump asked his Jan. 6 judge for extra weeks to file documents relating to discovery, presidential immunity, and a renewed challenge of special counsel Jack Smith’s authority, telling the judge that Hurricane Milton wreaked serious havoc — “displacing and severely disrupting Florida defense counsel[.]” The Monday filing from attorneys Todd Blanche,...
Florida prosecutors appeared prepared to resolve a case against a man accused of posting threats to kill or inflict bodily harm on former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, but an “erroneously” constructed pretrial intervention agreement has now been withdrawn. Michael Martin Wiseman, 68, was arrested in July — mere days after...
Special counsel Jack Smith says his office has almost nothing more to share with Donald Trump’s defense attorneys in the Jan. 6 case. On Oct. 16, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan dispensed with numerous outstanding defense motions intent on prying various bits of information away from the government. In a mixed-bag ruling, the court granted...
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump late Friday filed their reply to the government’s appeal of the Mar-a-Lago case dismissal. In an 85-page filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the defense sought to maintain the status quo by insisting that special counsel Jack Smith was “correctly” defanged by U.S. District...
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday evening ruled that a Mississippi state law allowing ballots to be received and counted after Election Day is in violation of federal law, in what could amount to a last-minute rule change for the upcoming general election. “Congress statutorily designated a singular ‘day for the election’ of...
The U.S. Army on Friday released a heavily redacted incident report of a “Simple Assault” during former President Donald Trump‘s contentious August visit to Arlington National Cemetery, where an employee trying to stop Trump staffers from taking pictures and filming was “abruptly pushed aside.” The document, published on the website of the watchdog group American Oversight, contains...