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Jan 10 2024
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“Dead man walking”: Experts say Trump immunity lawyer lost judges after he “set a trap for himself”
Legal experts criticized former President Donald Trump’s legal team for arguing on Tuesday that presidential immunity covers political assassinations. Judge Florence Pan grilled Trump lawyer John Sauer on the presidential immunity claim during a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing. “Could a president who ordered Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached, would he
SalonJan 08 2024
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Trump motion to dismiss Georgia case cites Biden DOJ's recent defense of presidential power
Former President Donald Trump on Monday told a Georgia court his efforts to alter the results of the 2020 presidential election there were “acts that lie at the heart” of a U.S. president’s “official responsibilities” in a last-minute bid to evade criminal prosecution. Attorneys for the 45th president asked the Superior Court of Fulton County to toss out the racketeering (RICO) case against
Law & CrimeJan 08 2024
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Fugitive accused of faking death is back in Utah
FARMINGTON — Fugitive Nicholas Rossi, who is facing a pair of rape charges in Utah and who authorities say faked his own death to avoid prosecution, is back in the Beehive State. Rossi, 36, was booked into the Davis County Jail on Friday after being extradited from Scotland to the United States by the U.S. Marshals Service. He is facing rape charges in Salt Lake County and in Utah County.
KSLJan 08 2024
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Trump filed 3 motions in Georgia
Donald Trump filed motion after motion on Monday urging a Georgia judge to dismiss the election interference case against him.
In the first motion to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, Trump argued that he had presidential immunity when he allegedly conspired to organize an alternate slate of electors to overturn the 2020 election.
"The President's absolute immunity
Daily KosJan 17 2024
Analysis
After Iowa, is it time to trust the polls again?
Donald Trump’s resounding victory in the 2024 Iowa caucuses should have been expected by just about everyone. You could have seen it coming based on his fundraising numbers, his campaign’s presence in the state, his refusal to debate his primary opponents — or you could have looked at just about any poll.
Since 2016 (and 2020), however, there’s been some apprehension about trusting
VoxDec 29 2023
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Mother, father, teen daughter found dead in Massachusetts home
(NewsNation) — Massachusetts police are investigating the deaths of a man, woman and their teenage daughter killed in an apparent domestic violence incident. A relative contacted police Thursday morning after checking on the family at home in Dover, Massachusetts, according to a news release from the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office. The District attorney’s office has not released the names
NewsNationNov 30 2023
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Judge blocks Montana’s TikTok ban from taking effect on January 1
(CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday halted Montana’s TikTok ban, which was set to go into effect at the start of 2024. In a filing, US District Judge Donald Molloy said that despite the state government’s attempt to defend the law, “the current record leaves little doubt that Montana’s legislature and Attorney General were more interested in targeting China’s ostensible role in TikTok than
Channel 3000Jan 09 2024
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Trump's lawyer argues that a president can order SEAL Team Six to assassinate his political rival if Congress is cool with it
Former President Donald Trump's attorney on Tuesday argued that a president could order the assassination of his political rival and couldn't be prosecuted for it — unless Congress impeached and convicted that commander in chief first.
Trump's lawyer made the argument in a contentious appeals-court hearing Tuesday in the special counsel Jack Smith's election-interference case against
Business InsiderJan 09 2024
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Georgia Judge Denies Trump Co-Defendant's Bid to Nix Prosecution
A state judge on Tuesday rejected an effort by a Donald Trump co-defendant to end his criminal prosecution in the Georgia election-racketeering case. In a six-page order, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Harrison Floyd's argument that he could not be prosecuted by the Fulton County District Attorney's office "lacks legal merit" and denied his request for a permanent end to
The MessengerDec 03 2023
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Drunk Driving Crackdown Begins In Morris County
MORRIS COUNTY, NJ — Officials around Morris County have started their annual holiday impaired driving crackdown and have received money from the state to do so. On Friday, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the state Division of Highway Traffic Safety (HTS) announced the kickoff of the annual “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” year-end holiday campaign. The effort, running through Jan. 1,
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