U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon issued an order Thursday calling for an evidentiary hearing on the justifications for the infamous Mar-a-Lago raid in August 2022 and on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s piercing of attorney-client privilege.
The investigation into Donald Trump was “irreparably tainted by government misconduct”, said former Trump defence lawyer Timothy Parlatore.
Timothy Parlatore, who until recently worked as a criminal defense attorney for former President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the Special Counsel investigating Trump crossed a “red line” at the grand jury.
A judge ruled that an attorney to Donald Trump must testify in the probe into Trump’s handling of documents and turned over his private notes to the DOJ.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump “more likely than not” tried to obstruct Congress on January 6, 2021, and that therefore lawyer John Eastman must hand over emails to a House inquiry.
A New York judge ordered the New York Times Friday to return and destroy all copies it possessed of legal memoranda prepared for James O’Keefe’s investigative journalism company, Project Veritas, saying it had violated his rights.
The Michigan Press Association and three media outlets filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in response to the Michigan redistricting commission’s refusal to release records from a meeting it had in October, as well as legal documents the commission claims are protected by “attorney-client privilege.”
Special master Barbara S. Jones has ruled that nearly two-thirds of the documents that Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for President Donald Trump, has said were covered by attorney-client privilege should remain confidential and should not go to the government.
Unnamed sources told the Chicago Tribune they are worried President Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, might have recorded his conversations with the president and that federal prosecutors now have them.
It is hard to know how to react to the search warrant that was executed by federal authorities on Monday at, according to media sources, Michael Cohen’s office, home, and hotel room, other than to note that it is a dramatic and extraordinary move, with all sorts of potentially ominous implications for Mr. Cohen and for President Trump.