Special counsel tells court he is assessing future of Trump criminal case
CNN
Special counsel Jack Smith could have a decision by December 2 on how to resolve Donald Trump’s criminal case surrounding the events of the 2020 election, he told a federal judge Friday.
Special counsel Jack Smith could have a decision by December 2 on how to resolve Donald Trump’s criminal case surrounding the events of the 2020 election, he told a federal judge Friday. He asked federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan to wipe away all deadlines that are upcoming so his office can assess how to move forward as Trump returns to the presidency. This is the first step in which Smith is publicly indicating he preparing to wind down the case against Trump. CNN has reported that the special counsel has already been in active talks with Justice Department senior officials about how to handle the case. “As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant is expected to be certified as President-elect on January 6, 2025, and inaugurated on January 20, 2025. The Government respectfully requests that the Court vacate the remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule to afford the Government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy,” the prosecutors wrote in a one-page filing. “By December 2, 2024, the Government will file a status report or otherwise inform the Court of the result of its deliberations,” they added.
President-elect Donald Trump could be in a position to select the government’s top ethics czar when he assumes office in January – after a key ally in the Senate blocked President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Office of Government Ethics.
Twelve students at Salisbury University in Maryland are facing assault and hate crime charges after they allegedly targeted a man “due to his sexual preferences” and lured him to an off-campus apartment where they beat him, police said.
So far it is her method, not bottom-line votes, that primarily sets this Trump appointee apart.
Federal investigators are running down email addresses from Russian internet domains that were used to make a slew of non-credible bomb threats across swing states on Election Day.
Jury deliberations continue Friday in the highly publicized double murder trial of Richard Allen – who is accused of killing two teenage girls and leaving their bodies near a hiking path in the small town of Delphi, Indiana, more than seven years ago.
Authorities across the United States are investigating after several people, including children and college students, reported receiving racist text messages from unrecognized phone numbers in recent days.
The roiling debate over the strength of democratic restraints to keep Donald Trump in check when he returns to the White House in January has put a renewed focus on a divisive Supreme Court ruling that some fear could enable his worst impulses.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested Thursday after police said he entered a secure area of an Kenosha, Wisconsin, elementary school carrying a suspicious backpack and duffle bag.
Almost immediately after it became clear that Donald Trump was on his way to reelection Tuesday night, phones began pinging in the president-elect’s orbit and the conversation at several of the dining tables in the Mar-a-Lago ballroom turned to who would staff a second Trump term.
A federal judge on Thursday struck down the Biden administration’s “parole in place” policy that gave legal status to certain undocumented individuals who are married to US citizens.
A buoyant Trump believes he has a mandate to hit the ground running as he revels behind closed doors
President-elect Donald Trump is reveling in his victory and the subsequent celebration, being described as having a much different mentality than he did in 2017 and feeling like his popular vote win gives him a mandate as he speaks with world leaders, top aides and allies, business CEOs and his transition team.