Special counsel evaluating 2 federal cases against Trump post-election
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith is evaluating how to wind down the two federal cases against Donald Trump before the president-elect takes office in light…
Special counsel urges appeals court to reinstate Trump documents case
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal appeals court Monday to reinstate the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump after it was…
Dismissal of Trump classified documents case was goal of conservatives
WASHINGTON — A Florida federal judge’s dismissal Monday of the criminal case accusing former President Trump of illegally keeping classified documents after leaving office did…
Opinion: Judge Aileen Cannon is flat-out wrong, again
Judge Aileen Cannon’s stunning ruling dismissing the federal indictment against Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents is just wrong as a matter of constitutional law,…
Supreme Court: Trump is shielded from prosecution for official acts
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday gave former — and perhaps future — President Trump a broad shield of immunity from criminal charges. In a…
House Republicans sue Garland seeking audio of Biden interview
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Monday filed a lawsuit against Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland seeking to obtain the audio recording of President Biden’s interview with a…
Hunter Biden is guilty of charges that never should have been brought
You can’t fault the jury that found Hunter Biden guilty Tuesday of falsely claiming that he was not a drug user on a federal firearm…
Jack Smith just called out Trump records Judge Aileen Cannon
Jack Smith has had enough. Late Monday, the special counsel responded to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s bizarre recent order in the classified records case…
Special counsel who questioned Biden’s memory testifies
WASHINGTON — Over five hours of interviews, President Biden repeatedly told a special counsel that he never meant to retain classified information after he left the…
Biden’s legal team went to Justice Department over memory comments
WILMINGTON, Del. — President Biden’s personal attorney said Sunday he went to both the special counsel and the attorney general to register concerns over what he…
How Biden and allies are pushing back against memory claims
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s Democratic allies are launching an aggressive defense against a special counsel’s explosive claims that the 81-year-old president couldn’t remember major milestones in…
Biden angrily pushes back at report that questioned his memory
WASHINGTON — A special counsel report released Thursday found evidence that President Biden willfully retained and shared highly classified information when he was a private citizen,…
Trump gag order upheld by appeals court in Washington case
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Washington largely upheld a gag order on Donald Trump in his 2020 election interference case on Friday, but narrowed…
Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann has a reputation for hard-charging tactics — and sometimes going too far
Reporting from Washington — When FBI agents raided the northern Virginia home of President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul J. Manafort Jr. on July 26, they…