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WASHINGTON — The attorney general's appointment of a special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe creates a fresh headache for the re-election campaign of President Joe Biden, distracting from his message and potentially drawing attention away from likely GOP opponent Donald Trump’s mounting legal problems. The president's allies worry that Republicans…

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office wants to put former President Donald Trump on trial for his attempted coup in January next year—a move that, if approved by a judge, could brand him a felon before the biggest GOP presidential primaries. In a filing on Thursday, the special counsel’s office proposed…

Special Counsel Jack Smith is proposing that the trial for Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case begin on Jan. 2, 2024 — a proposal that, if granted by the judge, could mean that it would be the first of Trump’s three current criminal cases to go to trial.  The proposed trial…

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The latest federal charges against former President Donald Trump accused him of working to subvert the 2020 election by pushing officials in seven states to create a fraudulent slate of electors to force then-Vice President Mike Pence to block Congress from certifying Joseph R. Biden’s victory. The charge against Mr.…

All of the focus on Special Counsel Jack Smith of late has, of course, been in relation to the indictments brought against former President Donald Trump in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (the classified documents case) and, more recently, in the U.S. District Court in…

The special counsel leading two investigations of Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for records related to the former president’s Twitter account in January, according to an appeals court opinion released Wednesday. The revelation comes a week after Trump was arraigned on four federal charges related to his effort to…

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Three indictments, 78 charges, three trials. What might Donald Trump’s defence be in court and which of the three cases will be hardest for him to win? The former president stands accused of a litany of crimes. Conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Undermining Americans’ right to vote. Hoarding…

CNN  —  A whirl of developments in a quartet of cases in four separate cities encapsulate the vast legal quagmire swamping Donald Trump and threatening to overwhelm the entire 2024 presidential campaign. But Monday’s hectic lawyering was just a tame preview of next year when the ex-president and current Republican…