Trump decries ‘political judges’ amid court setbacks as he attempts to upend federal government – live
Democrats and scholars fear Trump will create a constitutional crisis by defying the courts blocking the administration’s efforts to upend federal governmentA federal court has approved a request by prosecutors to drop charges against two co-defendants indicted alongside Donald Trump for allegedly hiding classified documents, marking the end of the unprecedented, and ultimately fruitless, effort to convict the president prior to his return to the White House.After Trump won the November election, special counsel Jack Smith dropped charges against Trump over the documents, and in a separate case involving attempting to stop Joe Biden from entering the White House. However, Smith allowed the prosecutions of the co-defendants in the documents case, Carlos De Oliveira and Walt Nauta, to continue.The U.S. Court of the Appeals for the 11th Circuit approved dropping the case against Trump valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos De Oliveira, who were charged alongside Trump in a case accusing Trump of illegally retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home and social club. All three pleaded not guilty.A lawyer for Nauta, Richard Klugh, said the decision “closes out a prosecution that was misguided and which should never have been filed.” Continue reading...
Democrats and scholars fear Trump will create a constitutional crisis by defying the courts blocking the administration’s efforts to upend federal government
A federal court has approved a request by prosecutors to drop charges against two co-defendants indicted alongside Donald Trump for allegedly hiding classified documents, marking the end of the unprecedented, and ultimately fruitless, effort to convict the president prior to his return to the White House.
After Trump won the November election, special counsel Jack Smith dropped charges against Trump over the documents, and in a separate case involving attempting to stop Joe Biden from entering the White House. However, Smith allowed the prosecutions of the co-defendants in the documents case, Carlos De Oliveira and Walt Nauta, to continue.
The U.S. Court of the Appeals for the 11th Circuit approved dropping the case against Trump valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos De Oliveira, who were charged alongside Trump in a case accusing Trump of illegally retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home and social club. All three pleaded not guilty.
A lawyer for Nauta, Richard Klugh, said the decision “closes out a prosecution that was misguided and which should never have been filed.” Continue reading...
