A federal judge’s ruling granting former President Trump’s request for a special master has generated a range of intense reactions from legal experts, who have called it unusual, lacking in legal reasoning, “absurd” and offering undue favoritism to a former president. The ruling in favor of Trump by federal district court Judge Aileen Cannon has…
Author: Rebecca Beitsch
DHS expected to unveil final rule unwinding Trump’s public charge policy
The Biden administration is expected on Thursday to publish its final rule unwinding a Trump-era policy that sought to limit immigration of those it feared may rely on social services. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will unveil a rule that would roll back the Trump administration’s so-called public charge rule, restricting immigration pathways for…
Scrutiny builds over FBI’s discovery of empty folders at Mar-a-Lago
Among the material allegedly seized from former President Trump’s home were numerous empty folders that once contained classified information or intel designated to be returned to the military, renewing questions over fallout from the potential mishandling of records and if they have since been recovered. In an inventory from the Justice Department unsealed by a…
Unsealed Mar-a-Lago inventory details items recovered from Trump’s office
Justice Department records unsealed on Friday offer new details about the volume of documents former President Trump stored in his personal office at Mar-a-Lago, as well as other items seized during the search of his Florida home. The filing underscores just how many presidential records Trump was storing at his home and offers a breakdown…
Jan. 6 panel alleges Gingrich involvement with Trump effots, seeks interview
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is asking former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to voluntarily sit with its investigators, claiming he advised the Trump team in the days after the former president’s loss in the 2020 election. “You have knowledge and information directly related to our investigation. Information obtained…
Mastriano sues Jan. 6 committee
Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is suing the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, seeking to block the panel from enforcing its subpoena for his testimony. The suit makes a familiar argument that has largely been rejected by courts, asserting the committee has no authority to compel testimony…
Judge withholds ruling on special master in Trump, DOJ battle
A federal judge on Thursday declined to issue an immediate decision in a case brought by former President Trump, whose attorneys asked the court to appoint a third party legal expert to review evidence seized by FBI investigators when they searched his Florida home. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said she will issue a ruling…
Trump team says sensitive info ‘should have never been cause for alarm’ in latest filing
Former President Trump’s legal team is arguing that the sensitive information contained in classified documents recovered from his Florida home “should have never been cause for alarm,” in its latest filing arguing for a special master to review the documents. The claim came in a Wednesday night filing as Trump asks the court to appoint…
DOJ details path of obstruction culminating in search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
When federal authorities went to Mar-a-Lago in June to retrieve classified materials stored there, former President Trump greeted FBI agents and said, “Whatever you need, just let us know.” But the Justice Department’s second visit to Trump’s Florida home would not be its last — with authorities contending the Trump team instead sought to conceal…
Can’t go home, can’t enter the US: Thousands of Afghans remain stuck in between
Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a three-part series on Afghan refugees marking one year since the U.S. withdrew its military from Afghanistan, ending its longest war. The series — Here, There, Everywhere — tells the story of life after the evacuation through the eyes of Afghan refugees in the U.S., vulnerable Afghans…