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30 Oct 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Bid to Short Circuit Defamation Case Brought by Woman Who Accused Trump of Rape Washington Post – Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, and Shayna Jacobs | Published: 10/27/2020 A federal judge rejected the Justice Department’s bid to make the U.S. government the defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who says President Trump raped her several years ago, paving the way for the case to again proceed. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden Transition Elevates Former Facebook Exec as Ethics Arbiter Politico – Alex Thompson and Theodoric Meyer | Published: 10/1/2020 Joe Biden’s transition team named Jessica Hertz, until recently a Facebook executive focused on government regulations, as its general counsel and charged her with navigating conflicts-of-interest and other ethical issues for the Biden administration-in-waiting, a move that drew immediate fire from the left. [read post]
4 Oct 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Barr Personally Asked Foreign Officials to Aid Inquiry into CIA, FBI Activities in 2016 MSN – Devlin Barrett, Shane Harris, and Matt Zapotosky (Washington Post) | Published: 9/30/2019 Attorney General William Barr held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence agencies’ examination of possible connections between Russia and members of the… [read post]
22 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Appeals Court Greenlights Emoluments Suit against Trump Politico – Josh Gerstein | Published: 5/14/2020 A lawsuit accusing President Trump of violating the Constitution by accepting foreign government money through his Washington, D.C. hotel can proceed to fact-gathering about Trump’s profits, a federal appeals court ruled. [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 8:57 am by John Mikhail
Trump prioritized this argument in his briefs to the Court, drawing primarily on the scholarship of Seth Barrett Tillman and his co-author, Josh Blackman. [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Hunter Biden Reaches Deal to Plead Guilty in Tax, Gun Case MSN – Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein (Washington Post) | Published: 6/20/2023 President Biden’s son Hunter reached a tentative agreement with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to two minor tax crimes and admit to the facts of a gun charge under terms that would likely keep him out of jail. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Appeals Court: Justice Dept. can use Mar-a-Lago documents in criminal probe MSN – Devlin Barrett (Washington Post) | Published: 9/21/2022 An appeals court sided with the Justice Department in a legal fight over classified documents seized in a court-authorized search of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, ruling the FBI may use the documents in its ongoing criminal investigation. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 12:35 pm by John Elwood
With the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who provided a necessary vote to the McGirt majority, and the confirmation of her replacement, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the state is now asking the court to reverse itself. [read post]
1 Dec 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Senate contests like Sherrod Brown’s in Ohio and Jon Tester’s in Montana. [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Justice Department Curtails Seizure of Reporters’ Phone, Email Records in Leak Investigations MSN – Devlin Barrett (Washington Post) | Published: 7/19/2021 Attorney General Merrick Garland sharply limited how and when prosecutors can secretly obtain reporters’ phone and email records, formalizing a Biden administration decree that the government would stop using secret orders and subpoenas for journalists’ data to hunt for leakers. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
” Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene in Mar-a-Lago Search Case MSN – Devlin Barrett and Robert Barnes (Washington Post) | Published: 10/4/2022 Former President Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the Mar-a-Lago documents-seizure case, saying the special master appointed in the matter should be allowed to review the classified papers. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts Yahoo News – David Kirkpatrick and Kate Kelly (New York Times) | Published: 4/10/2022 Six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince, a close ally during the Trump administration, despite objections from the fund’s advisers about the merits of the deal. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Said to Have More Evidence of Possible Trump Obstruction at Mar-a-Lago MSN – Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein (Washington Post) | Published: 4/2/2023 Justice Department investigators have amassed fresh evidence pointing to possible obstruction by former President Trump in the investigation into top-secret documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home, according to people familiar with the matter. [read post]
21 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Gaetz Associate Admits to Sex Trafficking of a Minor, Agrees in Writing to Cooperate Fully with Prosecutors MSN – Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett (Washington Post) | Published: 5/14/2021 A Florida politician considered key to the investigation of U.S. [read post]
30 Jul 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
As Trump Pushed for Probes of 2020 Election, He Called Acting AG Rosen Almost Daily MSN – Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett (Washington Post) | Published: 7/28/2021 Then-President Trump called his acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, nearly every day at the end of last year to alert him to claims of voter fraud or alleged improper vote counts in the 2020 election and asked what the Justice Department was doing about the issue. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 6:02 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Regardless, plaintiffs argued that they were entitled to strict scrutiny because required “sexually explicit” labels on video games had been struck down by the Seventh Circuit, and Brown v. [read post]
2 Jul 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Inside the ‘Shadow Reality World’ Promoting the Lie That the Presidential Election Was Stolen MSN – Rosalind Helderman, Emma Brown, Tom Hamburger, and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post) | Published: 6/24/2021 A loosely affiliated network of figures has harnessed right-wing media outlets, podcasts, and the social media platform Telegram to promote the falsehood that the 2020 election was rigged, a belief that is an animating force inside the Republican Party. [read post]