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...
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Rudy Giuliani to transfer control of his Manhattan apartment, valuables, and cash accounts to a mother-daughter pair of Georgia election workers he defamed. On Monday, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman to order Giuliani to “turn over personal property in...
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Army to release records by Friday documenting 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.” On Tuesday, Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the...
The U.S. Department of Justice is apparently aware of calls to investigate Elon Musk’s pro-Donald Trump America PAC for its cash offer to swing state residents who become eligible for a daily $1 million lottery until the 2024 election if they sign a petition in support of the First and Second Amendments and are registered...