“Bob’s Burgers” actor Jay James Johnston asked a federal judge for leniency this week, arguing prosecutors overstated his role in clashing with police during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and is using his status as an acclaimed Hollywood actor to make a point to the public. In his sentencing memo, a lawyer for Johnston,...
A state judge in Arizona this week tossed a criminal case against a woman who was arrested at a city council meeting for criticizing the pay raise and professional competence of a city attorney. Justice of the Peace Gerald Williams on Wednesday had dismissed the trespassing charge filed against Rebekah Massie two months ago as...
Now that Sean “Diddy” Combs has persuaded a federal judge that “a gag order is appropriate,” in the words of the defense, the high-profile RICO and sex trafficking defendant’s lawyers and federal prosecutors are fighting over just how far an order should go and to whom it can and should apply. In recent days, Combs...
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to dismiss the Jan. 6 case on the basis that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and has unlawfully spent tens of millions of dollars “on his unjust and unwarranted prosecutions.” The 30-page proposed motion to dismiss and for injunctive relief is premised on arguments...
A Republican official in Fulton County, Georgia, is appealing a court order directing her and other such officials to certify election results in a timely manner — whether they have concerns about them or not. Earlier this month, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney issued a much-anticipated ruling. In the 11-page final order, the...
Attorneys for voting software company Smartmatic are looking to speed up a case against Minnesota-based pillow magnate Mike Lindell and his once-highly profitable bedding company, MyPillow, according to a motion filed in federal court on Thursday morning. In the case, the underlying lawsuit was filed by Dominion Voting Systems, accusing Lindell and MyPillow of slander...
A Texas couple who bragged online they “were the first group to storm the capitol” and “fought cops” during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack are going to prison for their roles in the insurrection. Mark Middleton, 55, and his wife, Jalise Middleton, 54, learned their fates this week. Mark Middleton was sentenced to 30 months...
A three-judge panel appointed by Republican and Democratic presidents agreed Thursday that former Trump administration DOJ official Jeffrey Clark cannot remove his Georgia RICO prosecution to federal court, just as the appellate court ruled in the case of Mark Meadows. This time, one of the 11th Circuit judges noted in a concurrence that the removal statute...
If former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, he’ll fire special counsel Jack Smith “within two seconds” and doesn’t think he’ll be impeached for a third time if he does so. That’s what Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday morning when asked if he’d pardon himself or can Smith to make...
After Florida’s attorney general told the federal government in a letter last month that she was “surprised” by a move to sideline a state probe of the latest suspected attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the Sunshine State has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to “vindicate” its “sovereign interest” in...