The Hill - 38 min 45 sec ago
National political correspondent Maggie Haberman on Monday expressed doubts about President-elect Trump preventing the Justice Department (DOJ) from investigating prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith's team. "If the idea is that if there's lots of people around Trump and The White House who are going to prevent him from doing this, I think people are...
NBC News - 59 min 6 sec ago
Special counsel Jack Smith has filed motions to drop all charges against President-elect Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the mishandling of classified documents. NBC's senior legal correspondent Laura Jarrett reports for TODAY.
ABC News - 12 hours 33 min ago
A judge has dismissed Donald Trump's election interference case after Jack Smith asked her to toss the case due to a DOJ policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.
New York Times - 13 hours 12 min ago
President Donald J. Trump during the Jan. 6, 2021, rally on the Ellipse. The special counsel Jack Smith's move to dismiss the federal criminal cases against Mr. Trump means that two open constitutional questions appear likely to go without definitive answers as Mr. Trump takes office.
NBC News - 13 hours 31 min ago
Special counsel Jack Smith told federal courts he is dropping the federal election interference and classified documents cases against President-elect Donald Trump, citing a Justice Department policy of not criminally prosecuting sitting presidents. NBC News' Laura Jarrett reports.
The Hill - 14 hours 10 sec ago
President-elect Trump won his biggest legal victory so far on Monday when special counsel Jack Smith announced he was seeking the dismissal of the two federal cases Trump was facing. The decision was taken based on the long-standing view that a sitting president cannot be criminally prosecuted while in office. The judge in one of...
Newser - 14 hours 40 min ago
Although special counsel Jack Smith decided to drop the felony prosecutions of the president-elect, he said the case against two employees of Donald Trump remains active. Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira are accused of helping Trump obstruct a federal investigation into the removal of classified government documents when his...
NBC News - 14 hours 41 min ago
A judge is signing off on special counsel Jack Smith's request to dismiss his federal investigation into President-elect Donald Trump. The cases concerned Trump's mishandling of classified documents and his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S Capitol.
Esquire - 14 hours 49 min ago
This is nothing short of pathetic. In fact, it's well past pathetic.
The Hill - 14 hours 50 min ago
President-elect Trump boasted on Monday about special counsel Jack Smith's move to drop the federal cases against him. "These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought," Trump said on his Truth Social platform, shortly after news broke that...
New York Times - 14 hours 50 min ago
Jack Smith, the special counsel who investigated and charged Donald Trump.
The Hill - 14 hours 51 min ago
President-elect Trump's criminal indictment accusing him of conspiring to subvert the 2020 election results is no more. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Monday swiftly granted special counsel Jack Smith's motion to dismiss the case following Trump's election victory. "The court will therefore grant the Government leave to dismiss this case," Chutkan wrote. She dismissed...
Newsweek - 15 hours 19 min ago
Special counsel Jack Smith asked to dismiss his election subversion case against Donald Trump "without prejudice."...
BBC - 15 hours 28 min ago
The case was dismissed "without prejudice", meaning charges could be refiled when Trump leaves office.
The Guardian - 15 hours 40 min ago
Congressman Dan Goldman says decision by Jack Smith establishes that Donald Trump is above the law' Responding to news that the special counsel Jack Smith had dropped all charges against Donald Trump for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election and retention of classified information, Dan Goldman , a prosecutor turned New York Democrat and member of the House oversight committee, lamented "a shame for justice in this country". "It establishes that Donald Trump is above the law,"...
NBC News - 15 hours 56 min ago
Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a motion to drop both criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The Trump transition team rounds out its the picks for cabinet positions, including Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought for OMB and Scott Bessent for Treasury.
UPI - 15 hours 57 min ago
Special counsel Jack Smith moved to drop all felony charges stacked on President-elect Trump in connection to his alleged role to overturn the 2020 presidential election and mishandling of classified documents.
Mother Jones - 16 hours 37 min ago
Donald Trump has gotten away with causing a violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 as part of scheme to overturn the 2020 election, hiding top secret documents from the federal government, and other alleged crimes. Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday made official what Trump's election victory made clear, moving to dismiss […]...
Financial Times - 17 hours 4 min ago
Filings bring an end to unprecedented attempts to prosecute a former president...
Chicago Tribune - 18 hours 15 min ago
Federal prosecutors moved to abandon the classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump in light of longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution.
TMZ - 18 hours 18 min ago
Special counsel Jack Smith is moving to dismiss his federal election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump over the January 6th Capitol riot. In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Smith asks U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to throw…...
Nation Review - 18 hours 24 min ago
Jack Smith said the decision to end the prosecution of Donald Trump ‘is not based on the merits or strength of the case against the defendant.’...
Daily Signal - 18 hours 32 min ago
Special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion in D.C. District Court to drop the Jan. 6 case against President-elect Donald Trump with Judge Tanya Chutkan. ... Read More The post Jack Smith Drops Trump Election Case appeared first on The Daily Signal .
The Independent - 18 hours 35 min ago
Special counsel Jack Smith has announced that he will be dropping his 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump , following the President -elect's victory.