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 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.
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 drops criminal proceedings against Trump co-defendants in classified records case
Trump valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira were charged with conspiring with President Trump to obstruct an FBI investigation.
Justice Dept. abandons criminal proceedings against 2 Trump co-defendants in classified records case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday abandoned all criminal proceedings against the two co-defendants of President Donald Trump in the classified documents case, wiping out any legal peril the pair could have faced.
'Voluntary dismissal': DOJ officially drops charges against 2 Trump co-defendants in classified docs case
After Donald Trump narrowly won the United States' 2024 presidential election, then-special counsel Jack Smith announced that he would no longer pursue his two federal cases against him. Smith, citing the U.
DOJ ditches bid to reinstate charges against Trump’s former co-defendants in Florida case
Trump appointee Aileen Cannon had dismissed the classified documents case against the now-president and two co-defendants. The DOJ under special counsel Jack Smith had appealed.
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?
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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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...