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Trump's pardons harshly criticized by legal experts

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:51:06 GMT

Donald Trump’s final act in office was an eleventh-hour exercise of the pardon power, a presidential prerogative the founders built into the Constitution to let the nation’s top executive deliver mercy upon a select and deserving few.The latest...

Biden 'freeze' of Trump rules could halt environmental rollbacks

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 22:02:35 GMT

The Biden White House on Wednesday issued a memo that could halt Trump administration rules that had not yet gone into effect, stopping several environmental rollbacks in their tracks. Among the environmental rules that may be prevented from...

Biden asks for resignation of NLRB counsel: report

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 21:33:14 GMT

The Biden administration has asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel to resign, Bloomberg Law reports.Peter Robb was a Trump appointee who was sworn into the role in November 2017 for a four-year term. NLRB is an...

Man charged with assaulting police officer during Capitol riot

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:32:21 GMT

Federal prosecutors have charged a man with assaulting a police officer during the Capitol riot, accusing him of trying to crush an officer who was pinned by a mob as it tried to break into the building.Patrick Edward McCaughey III was arrested and...

Sidney Powell withdraws 'kraken' lawsuit in Georgia

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 03:15:43 GMT

Sidney Powell, one of the most vocal proponents of unsubustantiated theories that Georgia’s presidential election was rife with fraud, withdrew her lawsuit to overturn the results there.The conservative attorney who was once a member of President...

Trump's lawyers seek clarity about how tax-return case will proceed following Biden inauguration

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:23:16 GMT

President Trump's personal lawyers requested that a federal judge schedule a teleconference to discuss how a lawsuit about House Democrats' request for Trump's tax returns will proceed during the new administration and Congress.In a motion filed...

US Army private facing terrorism charges over alleged efforts to help ISIS ambush troops

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:04:20 GMT

A U.S. Army private is facing terrorism charges after he allegedly made efforts to help ISIS ambush U.S. troops, according to court documents unsealed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday.The Justice Department, New York Police Department and U.S....

Barrett hears climate case against her father's ex-employer Shell

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:50:07 GMT

Amy Coney Barrett was among the justices who presided over a dispute Tuesday that pitted the city of Baltimore against some of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest players, despite her father’s longstanding ties to Shell Oil Company, one of the...

Justice Dept charges Iranian professor with violating foreign-agent law

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:13:38 GMT

The Justice Department charged an Iranian professor with U.S. permanent residency with violating the foreign-agent law by acting as an unregistered agent for Iran. Kaveh Afrasiabi of Watertown, Mass., was charged with two counts of acting and...

Actors union votes to hold disciplinary hearing for Trump

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:08:20 GMT

The national board of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union voted Tuesday morning to hold a disciplinary hearing for President Trump, a member of the union, in connection with the deadly Jan. 6...

First Capitol riot conspiracy charge filed against alleged Oath Keepers leader

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:38:30 GMT

The first conspiracy charge has been filed by authorities investigating the Capitol riots, against an apparent leader of the paramilitary group the Oath Keepers. Thomas Edward Caldwell, 65, from Clarke County, Va., faces four federal charges,...

Court strikes down Trump coal power plant rule

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:55:47 GMT

A court has struck down the Trump administration’s rollback of an Obama-era rule regarding pollution from coal-fired power plants. A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday vacated the Trump administration’s Affordable Clean...

Capitol rioter told children they'd 'get shot' if they turned him in, wife says

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:57:24 GMT

A man who appeared to be at the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol more than a week ago allegedly told his children they would “get shot” if they turn him in to authorities. The alleged rioter, Guy Wesley Reffit, was arrested in Texas, according to...

Woman accused of trying to sell Pelosi laptop to Russians arrested

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 04:16:43 GMT

A woman who the FBI says took a laptop belonging to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and tried to sell it to Russians has been arrested. Riley June Williams was arrested on Monday in the Middle District of...

FBI investigating whether woman took Pelosi laptop, tried to sell it to Russians

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:49:40 GMT

The FBI is investigating whether a woman who took a laptop belonging to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol tried to sell it to Russians. Bureau investigators said in a court filing on Sunday that it received a tip...

Missouri woman seen with Pelosi sign charged in connection with Capitol riots

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 04:26:34 GMT

A Missouri woman seen with a fractured sign belonging to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. Emily Hernandez was hit with five charges on Friday in connection to the...

Mother and son charged with conspiracy following Capitol riots

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 02:00:03 GMT

A mother-son duo has been charged with conspiracy following the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, according to a Saturday legal filing. Lisa Eisenhart and her son Eric Muchel are charged with "knowingly and willfully conspiring with persons known and...

Far-right media personality 'Baked Alaska' arrested over alleged involvement in Capitol riots

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 21:37:00 GMT

Far-right media personality Anthime Joseph Gionet, known as “Baked Alaska,” has been arrested over his alleged involvement in last week's riot at the U.S. Capitol. Gionet was arrested in Houston on Friday, according to an entry on the Justice...

Sotomayor dissents to latest federal execution, calling it 'justice on the fly'

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 19:18:10 GMT

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a sharp rebuke of the court's decision to clear the way for a federal execution on Friday, panning what she described as "justice on the fly."Sotomayor joined others from the court's...

Police seized alarming number of weapons on Capitol rioters, court documents show

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:49:51 GMT

Police have seized an alarming amount of guns from President Trump's supporters who descended on Washington, D.C., last week and stormed the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress's certification of the 2020 election results.The details revealed in...