Judge in 2020 election case mostly denies Trump's demand for more evidence from prosecutors
CBSN
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:
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas, low-income communities and schools, libraries and hospitals.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched six space tourists on a high-speed dash to the edge of space and back Friday, giving the passengers — including a husband and wife making their second flight — about three minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this world view before the capsule made a parachute descent to touchdown at the company's west Texas flight facility.