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Chaos marks start of Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing in U.S. Senate
Quarreling and confusion marked the Senate hearing Tuesday for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, with politically charged arguments about White House documents and confirmation rules getting as much attention as the role the conservative judge will likely play in shaping rulings on abortion, executive ...
What deadline? Robert Mueller's Russia probe can go past Nov. 6 midterms
Deadlines? What deadlines? For months, President Donald Trump and his allies have said the special counsel needs to wrap up his Russia investigation within 60 days of the midterm elections in November, citing a Justice Department policy. But in fact, special counsel Robert Mueller faces no ...
Trump top court pick, who endorsed presidential immunity, faces tough hearings in Congress
President Donald Trump's newest Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, is expected to face punishing questioning from Democrats this week over his endorsement of presidential immunity and his opposition to abortion. Some two dozen witnesses are lined up to argue for and against confirming Kavanaugh, who ...
U.S. investigators tried to cultivate Russian oligarchs since 2014, had Paul Manafort on radar: NYT
U.S. justice officials secretly sought cooperation from a few of Russia's richest men as they investigated Russian organized crime and possible aid from Moscow to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, The New York Times has reported. Nearly all the half-dozen Russian oligarchs approached between 2014 ...
Democrats blast Trump move to withhold 100,000 pages of Brett Kavanaugh's records
Senate Democrats criticized the withholding of documents ahead of Tuesday's start of confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, even as a top Republican predicted he would be approved by a healthy margin. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York ...
John Dean of Nixon fame to testify at Brett Kavanaugh hearing
The Senate Judiciary Committee has added former Solicitor General Theodore Olson and former White House counsel John Dean to the list of witnesses who will testify next week in the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court. Olson served as solicitor ...
Trump says Jeff Sessions is safe on job at least until November elections
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was safe in his job at least until the November congressional elections, Bloomberg News reported after interviewing the U.S. leader. "I just would love to have him do a great job," Bloomberg quoted Trump ...
Trump calls Robert Mueller's Russia probe 'illegal' as it nears his inner circle
President Donald Trump on Thursday said the Russia collusion investigation headed by special counsel Robert Mueller is "illegal" as the probe continues to hone in on his inner circle. Trump told Bloomberg News in an interview that Mueller's appointment last year to investigate his 2016 ...
White House counsel Don McGahn, who has maintained a front row seat in Trump administration controversies and accomplishments, will be leaving in the fall after the expected Senate confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. The departure of Trump's ...
Paul Manafort asks to move upcoming trial from Washington, cites 'intensely negative news coverage'
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort asked Wednesday to move his upcoming trial out of the nation's capital, with his lawyers citing "intensely negative news coverage" and potential juror bias against him. "While federal courts often address issues of pretrial publicity in high-profile cases, it ...
Bruce Ohr was a relatively anonymous lawyer at the Justice Department for more than 25 years. But he's now caught up in a Republican maelstrom of criticism toward the department, with some of President Donald Trump's allies implying that he helped conspire against Trump's ...
U.S. judge gives partial win to prosecution ahead of Paul Manafort's second trial
A judge overseeing the upcoming second trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on Tuesday approved the prosecution's request to allow evidence about a Justice Department inspection of Manafort's lobbying activities in the 1980s but limited the scope of what it can show. The ...
