Andrew Weissmann, perhaps most famously known as Robert Mueller’s right-hand man during the Russiagate investigation, responded Thursday on the merits of a defamation lawsuit filed by a former White House lawyer from the first Donald Trump administration. In September 2023, attorney Stefan Passantino sued Weissmann, who is now a law professor at NYU and an...
Rudy Giuliani’s legal woes continued to worsen this week. On the heels of his bankruptcy attorneys seeking to quit, a Colorado appeals court on Thursday handed down a significant victory to a former Dominion Voting Systems executive, allowing him to proceed with a defamation lawsuit against the former New York City mayor over baseless claims...
Inmates held at a beleaguered county jail in Georgia have been subjected to unconstitutional, inhumane, and violent conditions that include homicides, stabbings, sexual abuse, pest infestation, and malnourishment, according to an investigation and report by the U.S. Justice Department. Conditions of confinement at the Fulton County Jail in the Atlanta area violate the Eighth and...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and a former employee engaged in a conspiracy “to violate the civil rights of Florida citizens” who supported President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody sued FEMA in the Southern District of Florida over...
A deputy prosecutor in Indiana has been fired for voicing her disdain with Donald Trump voters on social media — writing on Facebook after the election that they “disgust” her and “clearly don’t respect” human beings — in addition to sharing posts about them being Nazis, according to her boss. “If you voted for Trump,...
A Barack Obama-appointed federal judge has agreed to delay the trial for a Jan. 6 defendant as Donald Trump, who has vowed to pardon some of the rioters, is set to take office in January. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras agreed on Thursday to delay William Alexander Pope‘s trial until late February, online court records...
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 Wednesday to uphold Indiana’s transgender medical ban. In April 2023, Republican Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, whose term ends in January, signed SB 480 into law, which bans most forms of gender-affirming care for minors including hormone treatments, puberty blockers and surgeries. Under the law, any physician or other practitioner who...
Florida man Matt Gaetz was chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the next attorney general on Wednesday — prompting his immediate resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives. Almost as soon as Gaetz hit the exit doors of the U.S. Capitol Complex, however, a whisper campaign about the four-term lawmaker began. The abrupt...
The Onion has won the bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars from embattled conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has been repeatedly skewered by the well-known satirical news outlet. Jones on Thursday morning announced that Infowars was being shut down and promised to file legal challenges over the manner of the sale. “I just got word 15...
Two of the defense attorneys for Rudy Giuliani have asked a federal judge if they can quit representing the former New York City mayor as the two Georgia election workers he defamed attempt to collect on the $148 million judgment levied against him last year. The development comes as Giuliani had recently been seeking public...