Tina Peters, former Mesa County Clerk in Colorado, was sentenced to nine years in prison today, handed down by District Judge Matthew Barrett in a packed Colorado court room. Peters was convicted by a jury in MORE
Markenzy Lapointe, the Justice Department’s top prosecutor for South Florida, has taken charge of the case of the alleged Trump golf course attempted assassin. Lapointe was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and immigrated to the U.S. MORE
A federal judge has thrown out major felony charges against two former Louisville police officers accused of falsifying a no-knock warrant that led to the killing of Breonna Taylor. U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson ruled MORE
Expelled former Congressman George Santos, facing nearly two dozen criminal charges, reached a plea deal on Monday with federal prosecutors in New York on two federal counts. Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated MORE
A US federal judge has refused prosecutors’ request to prohibit the maker of the 1990s rap classic Bling Bling “from promoting and glorifying future gun violence/murder” in songs and at concerts while on supervised release from prison, MORE
The MAGA warrior general is reporting to prison, and carrying out one more podcast before he disappears for four months. That means it’s finally bath day for Steve Bannon. As one last act of defiance MORE
Trump is scheduled to sit for a virtual interview from Mar-a-Lago on Monday with a New York City probation officer, while his attorney Todd Blanche is allowed to hold his hand at his side. The MORE
Trump-appointed Federal Judge Carl Nichols ordered Steve Bannon to report to jail by July 1 to begin serving his four-month sentence for his Contempt of Congress conviction, after refusing to comply with a January 6 MORE
Hunter Biden, 54, is facing charges for lying on a federal form when he bought a gun in 2018. He wrote on the form that he was not a drug user, despite being addicted to cocaine at MORE
While the House Ethics Committee has been investigating allegations that Matt Gaetz slept with a 17-year old girl, an unlikely obstruction has been raised — the Department of Justice. The DOJ is refusing to turn MORE
In an Oakland County, Michigan, court, Judge Cheryl Matthews sentenced James and Jennifer Crumbley to 10-15 years in prison each for their roles in the 2021 Oxford High School mass shooting that was committed by MORE
During phone calls from jail over a seven month period, James Crumbley, the Oxford shooter’s dad, repeatedly threatened the Oakland County Prosecutor, Karen McDonald. A 52-page memorandum detailing his behavior “showed a complete lack of MORE
Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who worked closely with Trump in a bid to subvert the 2020 election, should face professional consequences — including the potential loss of his license to practice law MORE
The scandal-scarred Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, on the heels of surviving an impeachment push from his own party mates, may soon get rid of another headache. Citing sources, the Austin American-Statesman reported Friday that MORE
The Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of former New Mexico county commissioner Couy Griffin, Cowboys for Trump founder and convicted Capitol rioter. Griffin was removed from office in 2022 for his role MORE
UPDATE: Fani Willis Accepts Nathan Wade’s Resignation Judge Scott McAfee released a 23-page ruling that found insufficient evidence of impropriety in Fani Willis’s case against Mike Roman, Trump and other co-defendants. McAfee finds that Willis MORE
A jury has found James Crumbley, the father of the Oxford High School shooter, guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter, drawing to a close the nationally watched trial that raised questions about access to MORE
Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro has been ordered to report to a Miami prison on March 19 to begin serving a four-month sentence for defying the January 6 House Committee’s subpoena. Navarro is MORE
A New York jury has found the National Rifle Association and its former CEO Wayne LaPierre liable for corruption and misappropriating the organization’s funds to pay for lavish personal expenses including family vacations and luxury MORE
A New York judge on Friday handed Donald J. Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case, finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a MORE
Donald Trump has been ordered by the jury to pay E. Jean Carroll $18.3 million for his lies about her while president and for the statements he made about her after the verdict in their MORE
Fox Corp. must face Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation suit, a New York judge ruled on Wednesday, denying a motion to dismiss defamation claims against Fox News’ parent company. But Smartmatic must also face Fox’s counterclaims MORE
A state judge overseeing the election-interference case against former president Donald Trump in Georgia has scheduled a hearing for Feb. 15 to hear evidence regarding accusations that Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) MORE
US District Judge Amit Mehta on Tuesday declined Peter Navarro a do-over of his criminal contempt of Congress trial based on his claim that the jurors may have been influenced by political protesters when they MORE
A grand jury in Ohio on Thursday declined to indict a woman who had miscarried a nonviable fetus at home on a felony charge of abuse of a corpse, ending a case that had drawn MORE