Judge in 2020 election case mostly denies Trump's demand for more evidence from prosecutors
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Washington — The federal judge overseeing the 2020 election case against former President Donald Trump largely rejected Wednesday his demand for prosecutors to search for and turn over more information that the former president believed would support his defense and show his state of mind as he contested the results of the last presidential contest.
The 50-page order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan came in response to Trump's request to force special counsel Jack Smith and his team to search nine government entities for 14 categories of information and hand the evidence over to his legal team.
But after reviewing the tranches of material sought by Trump, Chutkan found that prosecutors should conduct such a search for just three types of information and produce to the defense what they find. Those batches include:
Princeville, North Carolina — On a single-lane road in Eastern North Carolina, surrounded by farmland, the congregation at Mark Chapel Baptist Church listens to a sermon on faith — and the importance of their vote as part of the "Black Belt," a stretch of majority-Black congressional districts in the South.
As Hurricane Milton slammed Florida's west coast, dozens of misleading or AI-generated videos spread on social media, racking up millions of views across platforms. One video, falsely said to show Milton, was actually filmed from a 2021 nor'easter in Massachusetts. Another montage, which had 1.5 million views on X, contained AI-generated footage. Julia Feerrar, an associate professor at Virginia Tech, said search engines are helpful in this instance: "Describing the image and adding the phrase 'fact check' to your search is often the fastest way to get more information and debunk misleading content." For example, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety published fact checks on AI-generated content and other misinformation that swirled online amid Hurricane Helene.