Author: Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner

Fulton County prosecutors say their 2020 election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 others will take around four months to try in court. Special prosecutor Nathan Wade provided the estimate during a hearing Wednesday before Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, adding that they would seek testimony from around 150 witnesses. MCCONNELL HEALTH…

Former President Donald Trump‘s second trial against former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll will be limited to damages only, a judge ruled Wednesday in a partial summary judgment. Carroll, 79, alleges Trump defamed her by denying in June 2019 that he raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. He previously…

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows could beat his ex-boss to the steps of the Supreme Court over a bid to remove his Georgia criminal racketeering case to federal court, according to legal experts. Meadows is waiting on U.S. District Judge Steve Jones’s decision over whether he can remove his case brought by…

Special counsel Jack Smith was partially impeded by a federal appeals court over his bid to access seized cellphone data from Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) as part of the investigation into Donald Trump and interference in the 2020 election. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia overruled part of…

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has called for an investigation into Justice Samuel Alito over his recent comments downplaying Congress’s ability to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court. Whitehouse penned a seven-page letter urging Chief Justice John Roberts to “take whatever steps are necessary” to investigate Alito following his remarks to the Wall…

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pleaded not guilty to charges in the election interference case in Fulton County, waiving his arraignment appearance set for Wednesday. Over the weekend, five other defendants in the case that names former President Donald Trump and 18 others entered not guilty pleas and waived their formal appearance…

Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro will face trial on contempt of Congress charges for defying subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee, with jury selection beginning Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected Navarro’s bid last week to avoid contempt charges. Navarro, 74, said former President Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege to…

Former President Donald Trump‘s Georgia racketeering trial is slated to be televised to millions of people worldwide — but whether that actually happens could be contingent on co-defendant Marks Meadows’s bid to move his case to a much less media-friendly federal courthouse. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the sprawling indictment…

Former President Donald Trump will need to sit for a deposition in a civil suit brought by former FBI agents fired under his presidency after a federal court of appeals rejected a bid on Friday by the Justice Department to block the ex-president’s testimony. The DOJ had argued that deposing Trump is “not appropriate” considering…

A Washington state high school football coach who was terminated for post-game prayers with students vowed to “bring God back” when he returns to the field Friday night after a 7-year legal fight that reached the highest court last year. Joe Kennedy lost his job as an assistant football coach in his hometown of Bremerton,…