A former attorney for President Donald Trump who has been charged in the Georgia election interference investigation is now facing similar charges in Arizona. John Eastman pleaded not guilty on Friday to conspiracy, fraud, and forgery charges for his role in the effort to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in Arizona to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. […]
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Former Trump attorney John Eastman pleads not guilty in Arizona election interference case
John Eastman, a former attorney for former president Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges related to a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona. Eastman is among over a dozen Trump allies who were charged in the state last month, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former […]
Georgia will allow Trump to challenge order keeping Fani Willis on election interference case
The Georgia state court of appeals on Wednesday said it would consider an appeal from Donald Trump of an order allowing Fani Willis, the district attorney, to continue prosecuting his election interference case in Fulton county. In a one page order, the appeals court said it would allow Trump to challenge the decision not to […]
Estonian minister blames Russia for GPS interference over Baltic
Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna laid the blame for the jamming of GPS signals over the Baltic squarely with Russia on Thursday, following weeks of interference that has disrupted air travel in the region. Estonia has been seeing an increase in targeted disruptions to GPS satellite navigation recently. The authorities of the Baltic Sea state […]
Finnish carrier suspends Estonia flights after GPS interference prevents 2 landings
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland’s national carrier Finnair said Monday it is temporarily suspending flights to Estonia’s second largest city for a month after two of its planes were prevented from landing in Tartu because of GPS disruptions. The cause of the GPS interference that forced the two flights to return to Helsinki last Thursday […]
Judge upholds disqualification of challenger to judge in Trump’s Georgia election interference case
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A judge upheld the disqualification of a candidate who had had planned to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case. Tiffani Johnson is one of two people who filed paperwork to challenge Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee. An administrative law judge […]
Supreme Court tackles Trump’s broad claim of presidential immunity in election interference case
WASHINGTON — Tackling an unprecedented and politically fraught issue, the Supreme Court on Thursday considers former President Donald Trump’s assertion of total immunity from criminal charges over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. The court will take on the novel legal question of whether a former president can be prosecuted for what Trump’s […]
Giuliani, Meadows, and more indicted in Arizona election interference case
Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows are among those indicted in an Arizona election interference case. Multiple Trump allies and Arizona GOPers were charged with felony counts, including conspiracy. The indictment also appeared to list former President Donald Trump as “Unindicted Coconspirator 1.” Prosecutors charged Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and a slate of Arizona Republicans with […]
Arizona indicts 18 for 2020 election interference including Rudy Giuliani
An Arizona grand jury has indicted Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, the ex-president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani and 16 others in an election interference case. The indictment released on Wednesday names 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential […]
Trump, RNC promise ‘aggressive’ election interference in battleground states
Pro-Trump protesters at TCF Center in Detroit | Ken Coleman photo Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee on Friday announced a “100,000 person strong” program designed to harass election officials and their employees and discredit democracy in Nevada and a dozen other states. In a statement announcing its Orwellian named “election integrity program,” the […]
Cheyenne woman whose nephew was arrested taken to jail on interference warrant
Apr. 19—CHEYENNE — The aunt of a man whose arrest was filmed and published online, and later featured in body camera footage released by the Cheyenne Police Department last week, was arrested at the Laramie County Governmental Complex Wednesday afternoon. Nadia Gauna was arrested at 2 p.m. in the courthouse, at the same time her […]
How a Jan. 6 case at the Supreme Court could affect Trump’s election interference case
Eyes are on Manhattan this week as jury selection in Donald Trump’s first criminal trial gets underway. But if you’re also interested in the fate of Trump’s federal election interference case in Washington, D.C., then you’ll want to follow an appeal being argued at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as well. That’s the case of […]