WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to let former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case proceed to trial without further delay. Prosecutors were responding to a Trump team request from earlier in the week asking for a continued pause in the case as the court considers whether […]
The Supreme Court told special counsel Jack Smith to respond by next week to former President Trump‘s request for it to halt the appeals court‘s ruling against his presidential immunity claim as the justices weigh how to proceed in the unprecedented legal battle. The court announced on Tuesday that a response is requested by 4 […]
Two days after losing a round in federal court, special counsel Jack Smith is calling on U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to reverse a ruling that would make public the names of witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s federal case alleging he wrongly possessed classified documents. Cannon rejected Smith’s effort to keep all that information […]
Left-wing ESPN sports commentator Stephen A. Smith ended his show Tuesday warning that the border crisis and the Democrat response to it is going to be the catalyst that gets Donald Trump re-elected to the White House this year. Saying “somebody’s got to say it,” Smith insisted that Donald Trump will be re-elected as president […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A woman with a lengthy criminal history including theft, assault and prostitution got into a truck with a man who had picked her up for a “date” near downtown Anchorage. When he left her alone in the vehicle, she stole a digital memory card from the center console. Now, more than four […]
Rep. Chris Smith’s journey as a campaigner for human rights and religious liberty began decades ago in a small New Jersey eatery over a meal with a Holocaust survivor. Mr. Smith‘s father ran a wholesale sporting goods business next to a Jewish delicatessen in the small town of Colonia, New Jersey. One day his father […]
ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. The state said the method would be humane, but critics called it cruel and experimental. Officials said Kenneth Eugene Smith, […]
NEW ORLEANS — Nearly eight years after retired New Orleans Saints star Will Smith was shot to death in a confrontation following a traffic crash, a long-awaited retrial got underway Tuesday for the man who pulled the trigger. Cardell Hayes, 36, was convicted of manslaughter in December 2016 for killing Smith, and attempted manslaughter for […]
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan partially sided with Donald Trump on Thursday to limit what special counsel Jack Smith can do in his election interference case against the former president. Trump’s attorneys filed a motion earlier this month calling on Chutkan to hold Smith in contempt for continuing to make filings in the case, […]
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers responded to special counsel Jack Smith ahead of oral arguments, writing that a “234-year unbroken tradition” supports Trump’s claim to presidential immunity from prosecution. Quoting extensively from early Americans like Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall and Justice Joseph Story, his attorneys argue in a 41-page […]
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