Justice Dept. seeks to drop appeal of Trump documents ruling by Cannon
Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.
Justice Department drops criminal proceedings against Trump co-defendants in classified records case
The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the Florida classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced.
DOJ, under Trump, moves to drop appeal of classified docs case against his co-defendants
The Department of Justice, now under new leadership, has moved to drop its appeal of the classified documents case against Donald Trump's co-defendants.
Justice Department fires lawyers who investigated Trump
The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen lawyers, involved in criminal investigations into Donald Trump during his campaign for president, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN,
Donald Trump fires Justice Department lawyers who worked on criminal cases against him
Yesterday (Monday, January 27), Trump fired more than a dozen of attorneys, which a justice department official told CBS News that Acting Attorney General James McHenry concluded they couldn't 'be trusted to faithfully implement the president's agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the president'.
Justice Department drops classified documents case against Trump co-defendants
Attorney General Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel's findings public while the Justice Department appealed a judge's dismissal of the case.
US Drops Classified Documents Case Against Trump Associates, Court Filing Shows
U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday moved to end the criminal case against two associates of President Donald Trump for allegedly helping to obstruct a probe into Trump's mishandling of classified documents,
Justice Department moves to drop prosecution of Mar-a-Lago staff in Trump classified docs case
The request seeks to drop obstruction charges against two former Trump co-defendants charged with obstructing justice in the classified documents case.
DOJ seeks to dismiss classified documents case against Trump's former co-defendants
Walt Nauta, an aide to President Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, were charged alongside the president in 2023. They all pleaded not guilty.
House Democrats launch review of firing of former special counsel Jack Smith's team
Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal ...
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America, in a Final Defeat for Jack Smith, Moves To Dismiss Mar-a-Lago Charges Against Trump’s Employees
Could the dropping of charges clear the way for the release of the special counsel’s report on the prosecution?
Justice Department fires more than a dozen key officials on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's team
EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team ...
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From the desk of… Jack Smith, the prosecutor who would never admit what he was doing
President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same ...
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Read Jack Smith’s final report on Trump’s Jan. 6 case
The Justice ... Jack Smith's final report on his investigation into Donald Trump's 2020 election interference efforts. Trump faced four charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States; ...
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High-Stakes Hearing Before Judge Cannon Could Decide Fate of Jack Smith’s Report — but Has Trump Already Won?
Meanwhile, congressional Democrats are pushing the attorney general to drop the charges against Trump’s co-defendants to ...
Trump Justice Dept. fires employees tied to Jack Smith probes as officials launch review of Jan. 6 cases
About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald ...
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Trump DOJ Fires Officials Who Worked With Jack Smith
Over a dozen officials who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Donald Trump are being fired, a Department of Justice (DOJ) official confirmed to the Daily ...