• Trump hush-money trial delayed for 30 days as lawyers review new evidence

    Judge agrees to month-long postponement after Trump lawyers say they need more time to sift through newly released documentsA judge on Friday delayed Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial until at least mid-April after the former president’s lawyers said they needed more time to sift through a profusion of evidence they only recently obtained from a previous federal investigation into the matter.Judge Juan Manuel Merchan agreed to a 30-day postponement and scheduled a hearing for 25 March to...

  • DOJ antitrust lawsuit complains that iPhones are cool, says lawyer

    One element of the DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Apple addresses iMessage, and Apple’s decision to keep the app exclusive to iPhone. But it goes further than arguing that this is anti-competitive, and attacks the use of green chat bubbles for Android users as creating “social stigma.” A lawyer commenting on this claim says that it effectively amounts to the Department of Justice complaining that people think the iPhone is cooler than Android phones more

    • MSNBC

    Asked about foreign bond money, Trump’s lawyer fails to reassure

    Donald Trump has faced financial difficulties throughout his adult life. In May 2019, The New York Times shined a light on the Republican’s finances from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, when the future president went from one failed venture to another, losing money at an extraordinary pace. At one point, the report noted, Trump “appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer.” That said, conditions now are significantly worse. In fact, in the wake of a $464...

    • CNN

    Trump lawyer asked if team is taking foreign money to pay legal fees

    Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba faced questions about the possibility of him taking loans or donations from foreign governments or parties to help pay his mounting legal fees as he faces a $464 million bond in his New York civil fraud case. CNN’s Jake Tapper and his political panel discuss the dangerous implications of that happening.

  • Cannon tells lawyers to weigh if Trump conduct can’t be reviewed by courts

    In Donald Trump’s classified documents case, Judge Aileen Cannon’s order about jury instructions seems to take precedence over numerous other pretrial issues.

  • DOJ compares AAPL share buybacks with R&D spend as ‘evidence’ of lack of competition

    A new report highlights what probably amounts the most most absurd stretch in the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit. A section notes that Apple last year spent half as much on research and development (R&D) as it did on AAPL share buybacks, presenting this as ‘evidence’ of the lack of competition faced by the company. It contrasts this with Google, whose R&D spend matched that of its share buybacks, suggesting this means the search giant faces greater competition more

  • Lawmakers ask DOJ why it declined to prosecute illegal immigrants previously deported with criminal conviction

    Four California House Republicans are demanding to know why federal prosecutions of illegal immigrants with a criminal conviction and deportation declined significantly in one Justice Department office, after they were caught illegally re-entering the U.S.  In a letter dated Tuesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the congressional lawmakers noted that more than 7 million people have crossed the southern border illegally into the U.S. since President Biden took office.  "Some of these...

    • CP24

    City reviewing use of force by security guard against individual sleeping outside Toronto shelter

    The city is reviewing the use of force by one of its security guards who was captured on video tackling an individual to the ground outside a shelter in Toronto last week. The altercation took place on March 12 at the Peter Street referral centre, which operates as the central intake centre for the city-run shelter system. In the video, shared to TikTok last week, two individuals can be seen sleeping outside the shelter while security guards work to relocate them elsewhere. The video...

  • DOJ asks court to toss whistleblower lawsuit alleging Pfizer defrauded US government

    The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday asked to intervene in a lawsuit alleging Pfizer committed fraud during clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine. The DOJ also asked the court to dismiss whistleblower Brook Jackson’s lawsuit against Pfizer.

    • People

    Prince Harry's Lawyers Seek to Include New Evidence on Tabloids Intercepting Princess Diana's Phone Calls

    In his lawsuit against News Group Newspaper, Prince Harry's lawyers are seeking to include evidence that outlets intercepted phone calls by Princess Diana, then-Prince Charles and Camilla when Harry was just a child.

  • Ahead of Israeli Lawyer's Return to Berkeley, WFB Editor in Chief Asks: Do the Adults or the Mob Run the Show?

    Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson appeared Saturday on CNN, where she previewed Israeli lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat's return to the University of California, Berkeley. Bar-Yoshafat's first appearance on campus was shut down last month by an anti-Semitic mob, and protesters are again planning to target his Monday speech.

  • Rudy Giuliani backing Trump's election fraud will 'help him in heaven' as he admits he will be disbarred as a lawyer in Washington

    Rudy Giuliani claimed in an interview Sunday that backing former President Donald Trump 's 2020 election fraud lies will 'help me in heaven'. Giuliani taped a St. Patrick's Day episode of his Uncovering the Truth podcast with Dr. Maria Ryan. The former New York City mayor predicted he would end up being disbarred in New York, where he's suspended, and Washington, D.C. over Trump's cause