Judge Neomi Rao’s opinion in In re: Michael T. Flynn is simply astonishing. It involves the Justice Department’s surprising decision to drop charges against one of President Trump’s former top aides — nearly three years after that aide plead guilty to lying to the FBI. And Rao’s opinion takes extraordinary liberties with the law. Her…
The collapse of the Obama administration’s dogged pursuit of retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has come to represent a broader assault on the Trump campaign, transition and presidency that Attorney General William Barr has concluded amounted to FBI “sabotage.” From July 31, 2016, to deep into the Trump presidency, the FBI littered its investigative…
A federal appeals court Wednesday dismissed the government’s case against President Trump’s first national security adviser, Micheal Flynn, who was ensnared in the Russia collusion probe. A three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted a request by Flynn and the Justice Department in a 2-1 decision. The court also…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…