juries
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Prosecutors in Trump’s classified documents case sharply rebuke judge’s unusual and ‘flawed’ order
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal prosecutors chided the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Florida, warning her off potential jury instructions that they said rest on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise.” In an order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had asked prosecutors and defense lawyers to file proposed jury instructions for…
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Judge expands Trump’s gag order after ex-president’s social media posts about judge’s daughter
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NEW YORK (AP) – The judge in Donald Trump’s April 15 hush-money criminal trial declared his family off-limits to the former president’s rancor on Monday, expanding a gag order days after Trump assailed his daughter and made false claims about her on social media. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan amended a week-old ban on Trump…
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Biden says he never meant to keep classified documents. Hur stands by report on president’s memory
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Over five hours of interviews, President Joe Biden repeatedly told a special counsel that he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency, but he was at times fuzzy about dates and said he was unfamiliar with the paper trail for some of the sensitive documents he handled.…
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Nicolais: Race and justice
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The 7-1 Supreme Court decision in Foster v. Chatman shed light on underlying and pervasive racial tensions that plague our justice system. Nearly 20 years after Timothy Foster’s conviction and death sentence, prosecutors’ recently released notes reveal race played a part in his jury selection. Foster is African-American, and prosecutors systematically challenged potential voters who…
