The Plateau state police command has denied reports of fresh attacks on a community in the state. In a statement released today December 31. The state police command Public Relations Officer, DSP Alfred Alabo, says contrary to the news making the round on some news and social media platforms …
Read More »Jamie Raskin Calls On Clarence Thomas To Recuse Himself In Trump Immunity Case
Constitutional scholar and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) called on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself when the Supreme Court hears Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution. Jamie Raskin Calls On Clarence Thomas To Recuse Himself Raskin said when asked about recusal …
Read More »South Africa files genocide case against Israel at International Court of Justice over Gaza war
South Africa has filed an application at the International Court of Justice to begin proceedings over allegations of genocide against Israel for its war against Hamas in Gaza, the ICJ said. Over 21,507 people have been killed in Gaza since October 7, according to the enclave’s Hamas-controlled Health Ministry. Among …
Read More »Trump Asks Appeals Court to Toss Election Case on Immunity Grounds
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump asked an appeals court in Washington on Saturday night to toss a federal indictment accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, arguing that he was immune to the charges because they arose from actions he had taken while he was in …
Read More »Mark Meadows Expected To Lose Appeal To Get RICO Case Moved To Federal Court
It looks like former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is going to lose his appeal to have his Georgia RICO case moved to federal court. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on the chief judge’s comments, which did not sound encouraging for Meadows: During the arguments, Pryor pointed to …
Read More »Prince Harry’s Phone Was Hacked by U.K. Tabloid, Judge Rules in Landmark Case
A London court on Friday found in favor of Prince Harry in a lawsuit that he had pursued against a British tabloid publisher, a major victory in the royal’s long-running battle with Britain’s news media over its intrusion into his life. The judge found there was sufficient proof that Mirror …
Read More »Justices to Decide Scope of Obstruction Charge Central to Trump’s Jan. 6 Case
The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to decide a question at the heart of the federal election-interference case against former President Donald J. Trump and hundreds of prosecutions arising from the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Can the government charge defendants in those cases under a federal …
Read More »Pakistan court indicts jailed ex-PM Imran Khan in state secrets case
Guilty verdict could bring up to 10 years in prison in a case that reduces Khan’s chances of being released in time to campaign before elections next year. Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has pleaded not guilty to charges of leaking state secrets under an indictment that deals a …
Read More »Prosecutors Ask Judge to Deny Trump’s Request to Freeze Election Case
Federal prosecutors on Sunday asked the judge handling former President Donald J. Trump’s trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election to reject his request to freeze the case in its entirety as Mr. Trump appeals her recent ruling that he is not immune from prosecution. The prosecutors …
Read More »Appeals court partially upholds Trump gag order in Jan. 6 case
A federal appeals court panel has preserved most of a gag order on former US President Donald Trump in his federal election interference case in Washington, D.C. The three-judge panel concluded that some of Trump’s remarks “pose a significant and imminent threat to the orderly adjudication” of justice but …
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