Author: Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner

EXCLUSIVE — Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R-MT) filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit over a Maryland county law he says is defying the Supreme Court‘s landmark Second Amendment test by establishing “unconstitutional” gun-free buffer zones. A group of 18 attorneys general led by Knudsen filed the brief Monday at the Virginia-based U.S. Court…

A federal judge in Atlanta denied two separate requests by former officials in the Trump administration seeking to remove their criminal case in Georgia state court to federal court. Former Trump administration officials Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark had both asked U.S. District Judge Steve Jones to block District Attorney Fani Willis from arresting them…

Jenna Ellis, a former attorney for Donald Trump, became the latest to surrender to authorities in Fulton County Wednesday as part of the sweeping racketeering indictment accusing the former president and associates of attempting to subvert the 2020 election. Her consent bond order, filed Tuesday, is $100,000 in total. The bond amount for the count…

Attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of 19 people charged in a sweeping racketeering case over former President Donald Trump‘s alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election in Georgia, is making demands for a speedy trial. Scott Grubman, who is defending Chesebro along with lawyer Manny Arora, told Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee in a…

Former President Donald Trump‘s move to skip the first Republican presidential debate may serve as a strategic guard from cross-examination over his ongoing legal battles. While eight candidates line the stage Wednesday evening in Milwaukee to make the case that they should be the nominee to take on President Joe Biden next fall, an interview…

Two attorneys named as co-defendants in former President Donald Trump‘s Georgia racketeering case surrendered to Fulton County authorities Wednesday following the sweeping indictment over alleged 2020 election subversion. Kenneth Chesebro, the lawyer who allegedly created a legal plan to substitute alternate electors to claim victory for Trump, surrendered himself Wednesday morning and was accompanied by…

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is urging the Supreme Court to uphold a federal law that blocks people under domestic violence restraining orders from owning firearms. The Golden State governor filed an amicus brief on Monday in a case to be argued later this year known as United States v. Rahimi after the Biden administration appealed…

A key witness in former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago classified documents case has retracted prior “false testimony” after changing lawyers, special counsel Jack Smith‘s team wrote in a Tuesday evening court filing. The witness is identified in court records as “Employee 4” and has since retained new counsel. Smith said that the witness gave new…

Former Georgia Republican Party head David Shafer said attorneys for former President Donald Trump, his campaign, and local GOP members called on him to create a slate of alternate electors that are part of the sweeping racketeering case in Fulton County. Shafer is among 18 co-defendants indicted by District Attorney Fani Willis alongside Trump as…

Former President Donald Trump‘s Fulton County co-defendant John Eastman surrendered himself to authorities on Tuesday, vowing that he and other defendants will eventually be “fully vindicated” of their alleged crimes. “My legal team and I will vigorously contest every count of the indictment in which I am named, and also every count in which others…