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Judge Cannon ruled that she was not bound by a Supreme Court case that expressly said the attorney general was authorized to appoint a special prosecutor.
From Reuters: The U.S. military launched a secret propaganda effort during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to cast doubt on China's lifesaving vaccine, essentially running an anti-vax campaign in the Philippines.
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Trump's lawyers are again asking Judge Cannon to throw out the classified-documents case against him, this time because they say the FBI did not document the precise order in which documents were found in the boxes the government seized from Mar-a-Lago.
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Trump's lawyers are making the argument that he didn't know there were classified documents strewn among his other papers. Which would seem to run contrary to their argument that he declassified them or designated them as his personal property.
Judge Cannon has denied another of Trump's motions to dismiss charges against him. But she does strike one paragraph from the indictment, in which prosecutors described him showing a classified map to someone in Bedminster.
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Guys, juries being unanimous about the elements of a crime but not other things is not a new thing.
"It has long been the general rule that when a single crime can be committed in various ways, jurors need not agree upon the mode of commission."
Schad v. Arizona, 501 624, 650-51 (1991) (Scalia)
The fact that news now can't get into the next day's paper -- in a metro like Indianapolis, no less! -- if it happens after 4 p.m. is just nuts.
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It's true that digital absolutely destroyed the economics of local news. It's also true that Gannett still makes twice as much money from print as it does from digital.
From the company's most recent 10-Q:
From Reuters: The Proud Boys are back. Four years after the failed effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat, the violent all-male extremist group that led the storming of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, is rebuilding and regaining strength.
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The Special Counsel's office has once again asked a federal judge to bar Donald Trump from falsely saying the FBI tried to assassinate him.
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Some of the best caselaw on the extent to which a court can impose such limits on Trump's speech -- and the reasons it might want to do so -- is helpfully named for Trump.
For a few hours yesterday, more Americans were searching for information about the former president and current presidential candidate who had just been convicted of 34 felonies than for porn.
From Reuters: Supporters of former President Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution.
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In a private group chat, police in Mississippi made racist jokes, urged each other to tase suspects and encouraged violence against people they were meant to protect.
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The Justice Department says it has "reached a tentative agreement" with ex-FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok to resolve their lawsuits over the government's decision to publish their text messages.
Judge Cannon has denied the special counsel's request to block Trump from falsely saying the FBI tried to assassinate him.
She says DOJ's Friday-evening notification of Trump's lawyers that it intended to file its request was "wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy."
The Special Counsel's office wants a judge to prohibit Trump from "making statements posing a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents" after he baselessly accused the FBI of trying to assassinate him.
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DOJ's misconduct is blowing up its cases in the "Fat Leonard" corruption saga, maybe one of the most eye-popping scandals of the modern military.
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Donald Trump's allies told Reuters they are assembling detailed plans to curb the Justice Department's independence and "urn the nation's top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes" if he is elected president.
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Trump's repeated (and baseless) attacks on judges are "inspiring widespread calls for violence."
Reuters found 150 posts on pro-Trump websites since March 1 expressly calling for violence against judges handling three of the highest-profile cases against him.
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In newly unsealed pleadings in Trump's Florida case, the former president alleges that the National Archives was out to get him. (As evidence of this, he points to an email saying they were out of patience.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Cannon has denied motions by Trump's co-defendants in his Florida criminal case to have the charges against them dismissed.
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