Author: Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner

When a key swing state announced a month before the 2024 presidential election that it had stripped 750,000 people from its list of registered voters in less than two years, alarm abounded. North Carolina’s announcement had conspicuous timing, but other than that, it should have been non-controversial. Election officials’ otherwise mundane task of removing ineligible…

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice that argued the state was removing people from its voter registration list too close to Election Day, according to a court motion filed Wednesday. Lawyers for Alabama’s attorney general argued that the state’s decision to switch…

Judge Aileen Cannon set a schedule on Tuesday for Ryan Routh‘s court proceedings that positions his trial start date in mid-November, when a jury is set to decide if he is guilty of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump. Cannon scheduled the trial to begin in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida, on Nov. 18,…

Former President Donald Trump asked a judge on Tuesday to order special counsel Jack Smith to redact more of his highly anticipated presidential immunity brief before it becomes public. Trump’s attorneys argued to Judge Tanya Chutkan that prosecutors for Smith did not redact information in their latest court filing the way they have done with other filings, saying the “largely unexplained…

Ryan Routh pleaded not guilty in federal court Monday to five charges related to his alleged assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on a golf course in Florida this month. Routh appeared at a courthouse in West Palm Beach with his public defense counsel to enter the plea during his arraignment, according to his…

Nathan Wade, a former prosecutor for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, received a subpoena from House Republicans on Thursday, nearly one week after they attempted to serve him with it. The subpoena, dated Sept. 20 and signed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), ordered Wade to appear for a deposition before Congress…

The Department of Justice brought charges against three Iranian citizens over allegations they hacked into email accounts belonging to former President Donald Trump‘s campaign and unlawfully distributed the material, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday. Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Aghamiri, and Yasar Balaghi were charged with hacking violations and charges of supporting the Islamic Revolutionary…

Special counsel Jack Smith filed his highly anticipated presidential immunity court filing on Thursday, which is expected to contain a trove of evidence to support his election interference charges against former President Donald Trump. The document remained under seal on Friday, and it was unclear when or if presiding Judge Tanya Chutkan would unseal a…

A House task force investigating the assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump held its first public hearing Thursday, during which local Pennsylvania officials placed blame for the incident in their state on the Secret Service. Three state and local law enforcement officials involved with securing the Trump rally on July 13, when the first…

A House panel investigating the attempts on former President Donald Trump‘s life is set to hold its first public hearing on Thursday as the Secret Service faces intense congressional scrutiny over the incidents. The bipartisan panel of seven Republicans and six Democrats will unveil its findings after two months of investigatory activity that included gathering…