Over the past 40 years, I’ve prosecuted and overseen the prosecution of scores of gun cases and white-collar cases. In total, many thousands of cases in federal and state court – including some later in my career as a defense attorney. From those cases and what I recall of the Department of Justice’s standards, I’m one […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says in a new interview it should be left to the states whether to prosecute women for abortions or whether to monitor women’s pregnancies. He declined to comment on access to the abortion pill mifepristone, which has been embroiled in an intense legal battle. In an interview published […]
TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A Travis County judge issued an order Friday appointing a prosecuting attorney to represent the state in a petition to remove Travis County District Attorney José Garza. In the order, Judge Dip Waldrip appointed the Office of the Bell County Attorney and the Honorable Jim Nichols to represent the state. […]
NEW YORK — Five days before his criminal trial against former President Donald Trump, the top prosecutor in Manhattan sat across from the liberal Rev. Al Sharpton in a hotel conference room packed with fellow Democrats. For 12 minutes, they talked — about growing up in Harlem, about teaching Sunday school and about fighting gun […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican prosecutor of Arizona’s most populous county took a thinly veiled swipe at a Democratic counterpart in the East on Wednesday, saying it would be more secure to hold a man accused of stabbing two women in Arizona than to extradite him to New York City, where he is wanted in […]
OPINION: While Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis clearly showed poor judgment in engaging in a romantic relationship with a prosecutor, America needs to remain focused on Trump’s conduct and the threat to democracy that he represents. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a special prosecutor she hired for the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump have been issued subpoenas by a defense attorney who has alleged Willis and the prosecutor had an inappropriate romantic relationship. Lawyer Ashleigh Merchant, who represents Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Accusations that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had an inappropriate relationship with a special prosecutor she hired to seek convictions of Donald Trump and others for interfering in Georgia’s 2020 election have led to renewed calls to remove Willis from the case. Willis has defended her hiring of Nathan Wade, who […]
This article was originally published in Wisconsin Examiner. One day, teachers and library staff across Wisconsin may find that they could be prosecuted for allowing K-12 students to view certain books or other materials. A new Republican legislative proposal to penalize educators for exposing children to obscene materials comes out of a wider effort to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military on Thursday opened a new chapter in how it investigates and prosecutes cases of sexual assault and other major crimes, putting independent lawyers in charge of those decisions and sidelining commanders after years of pressure from Congress. The change, long resisted by Pentagon leaders, was finally forced by frustrated […]