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Jun 08 2024
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One year after Trump classified documents indictment, defense challenge of special counsel takes center stage
It’s been a year since former President Donald Trump was indicted on charges of mishandling classified U.S. government documents and attempting to block its efforts to retrieve them. But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has postponed a trial she had set for May 20 indefinitely, citing a broad spectrum of legal issues to be resolved. In three weeks, one of the most prominent of those will
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Feb 16 2024
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Special Counsel Who Questioned Biden's Memory To Testify In Congress
Seeking to keep a spotlight on President Joe Biden’s age, House Republicans will hold a public hearing next month with the Justice Department special counsel who found evidence that the president had mishandled classified information when he was out of office but who also concluded that criminal charges were not warranted.
The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by conservative firebrand
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Feb 15 2024
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Special counsel Robert Hur to testify publicly on Biden investigation
Special counsel Robert Hur will appear publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on March 12 to answer questions about his investigation into President Biden’s handling of classified records. The hearing, confirmed by a source familiar, comes as Republicans have called his failure to recommend charges for Biden part of a broader “double standard” amid former President Trump’s prosecution
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May 28 2024
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Judge Cannon accuses special counsel Jack Smith of lacking "professiona courtesy," rejects gag order
Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee presiding over the former president’s classified documents case, has rejected special counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order. And while she stopped short of embracing the defense's motion that prosecutors should be held , she lectured prosecutors for failing to give the defense adequate time, in her view, to draft a response to their request for a
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Feb 13 2024
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House Republicans Give a Deadline for Transcript of Special Counsel Interview
After the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur's report from last Thursday, House Republicans on the Oversight and House Judiciary Committees as well as House Committee on Ways and Means have demanded the transcript of the interviews Biden gave as part of the investigation. As Matt has covered, the White House has been particularly resistant to such a release. On Monday, however, the
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Apr 30 2024
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Elise Stefanik Accuses Special Counsel Jack Smith Of Election Interference In Ethics Complaint
A top House Republican is accusing special counsel Jack Smith of election interference as the prosecutor leads two criminal cases against former President Donald Trump.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) announced on Tuesday that she had filed an ethics complaint against Smith with the Office of Professional Responsibility at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
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Jun 21 2024
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Battle of the experts: Trump legal backers facing off against government over special counsel’s ‘legitimacy’ in classified papers case
FORT PIERCE — When U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon convenes court in the U.S. government’s classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on Friday, the proceedings may sound more like a law school colloquium than a defense-prosecution hearing on a motion to dismiss. Besides prosecutors working for the government and attorneys arguing for Trump and co-defendants Waltine
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Feb 10 2024
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Harris says special counsel report on Biden was "politically motivated"
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday slammed the special counsel report questioning President Biden's memory, and praised how "on top of it all" he was in responding to the Israel-Hamas war.
The big picture: Harris' defense of her running mate comes amid fallout from Special counsel Robert Hur's report that described Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory" whose handling of
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Feb 09 2024
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Special Counsel Report Prompts Lawmaker to Call for Biden’s Removal
A New York congresswoman says President Biden must be prosecuted or removed from office. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) is calling for President Joe Biden’s removal from office via the 25th Amendment after the special counsel who probed his handling of classified documents reported that the president showed signs of “diminished faculties and faulty memory.” Ms. Tenney, in a Feb. 8 letter to
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Feb 09 2024
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Special counsel recommends no charges, but probes Biden’s political weakness
Happening this Friday: Donald Trump wins Nevada caucuses and captures all four delegates from Virgin Islands… President Biden blasts special counsel’s charge of Biden’s “poor memory”… Supreme Court signals it’s unlikely to let Colorado bar Trump from the 2024 ballot… And the final release from latest NBC News poll: More voters rate Trump’s presidency as “better than expected” in hindsight. But
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