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Trump and his running mate JD Vance, but an “erroneously” constructed pretrial intervention agreement has now been withdrawn.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...
“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...