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Jordan smear campaign against Jack Smith

Jordan is already planning to investigate the DOJ prosecutor investigating Trump

Salon · Nov 21, 2022

There's No Constitutional Right To Own a Pit Bull, Federal Court Says

Plus: A flawed study on marijuana risks, the collapsing publishing-house merger, and more...

Reason · Nov 21, 2022

City elections board misses deadline to make all polling places accessible, 30 years after ADA became law

Board of Election Commissioners says it’s working on making more sites accessible and letting voters know which ones are not before February’s municipal election.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 21, 2022

Ticketmaster’s parent company reportedly probed by DOJ even before Taylor Swift concert sales debacle

The U.S. Justice Department has reportedly opened an antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster’s parent company — a probe that predates the recent Taylor Swift ticket sales debacle.

Tribune News Service · Nov 19, 2022

EXPLAINER: What are special counsels and what do they do?

The appointment of a special counsel to oversee the remainder of two significant investigations related to former President Donald Trump focuses fresh attention on the role such prosecutors have played in modern American history

The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2022

New special counsel has long career confronting corruption

The prosecutor named as special counsel to oversee investigations related to former President Donald Trump has a long career confronting public corruption and war crimes

The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2022

Mike Pence calls special counsel’s Trump probe ‘very troubling’ and blames lawyers for Mar-a-Lago papers

‘I am not sure it’s against the law to take bad advice from your lawyers’

The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2022

House GOP pushes Hunter Biden probe despite thin majority

Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president’s son

The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2022

Trump attacks ‘super radical left special counsel’ now handling criminal investigations

Former president made comments just hours after Jack Smith handed control over probes

The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2022

Bill Barr says ‘increasingly likely’ Trump will be ‘legitimately’ indicted on criminal charges

Prosecutor Jack Smith appointed to oversee probes into one-term president

The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2022