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Trump legal team accused of ‘judge shopping’ in taking extraordinary steps to land favourite judge

Low chance of landing specific judge has some crying foul

The Independent UK

Trump's lawyers lack detail in their claims about some records, special master says

The special master reviewing documents seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate warned the former president’s lawyers that their initial efforts to claim certain records were personal and not presidential might be lacking enough detail.

Tribune News Service

French firm charged in US with Islamic State group payments

French cement company Lafarge has pleaded guilty to paying $17 million to the Islamic State group so that a plant in Syria could remain open, in a case the Justice Department describes as the first of its kind

The Independent UK

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French construction giant Lafarge pleads guilty to funding Isis and is ordered to pay almost $800m

Lafarge Cement paid the terror group $17m to protect its plant in Syria, Justice Department says

The Independent UK

Can Congress buy in to digital dollar without legislation? - Roll Call

The Fed says it needs congressional support to issue a digital currency, but it's unclear whether it has to be in the form of legislation.

Roll Call

Jackie Calmes: The Jan. 6 committee did the country proud but it hasn't changed our calcified politics

Senate Minority Leader Mitch "Party over Country" McConnell was wrong, again.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Are Jan. 6 investigators hot on the trail of 'all the president's people'?

The Jan. 6 committee preceded its dramatic Trump subpoena vote last week with a montage of former administration insiders repeatedly invoking the 5th Amendment. It was characteristically clever storytelling, driving home the stark contrast between the holdouts and the many other witnesses — most of them also administration insiders —…

Los Angeles Times

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Former US Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti dies at 87

A U.S. attorney general during President Jimmy Carter’s administration, Benjamin R

The Independent UK

Justice Department Inspector General Launches Investigation Into Inmate Death Following Judge's Contempt Order

Reason first reported last week on the scathing contempt order, which said the Bureau of Prisons should be "deeply ashamed" of its conduct.

Reason

Justice Department Takes Aim at Judge Cannon

In its latest filing, the Department of Justice seeks to put an end to Judge Cannon's interference with the federal government's investigation documents kept at Mar-a-Lago.

Reason

Justice Department requests prison sentence for Steve Bannon

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department recommended a sentence of six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for Steve Bannon on charges that he defied a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Tribune News Service

DOJ calls for six-month sentence for Trump ally Steve Bannon

The Justice Department said in a court filing it wants to see the former Trump adviser sentenced to six months in prison for not complying with the Jan. 6 committee's investigation.

WEKU

Government says Steve Bannon should get 6-month sentence

The Justice Department is arguing that Steve Bannon should serve six months in prison and pay a $200,000 fine for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

The Independent UK

Experts predict Cannon's order is doomed

DOJ aims to end special master review after appeals court, Supreme Court rebuke Cannon's intervention

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Roll Call

Justice Department requests prison sentence for Steve Bannon - Roll Call

The government seeks a sentence of six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for Steve Bannon on charges of defying a congressional subpoena.

Salon

Trump attorney speaks out against DOJ

The attorney complained that no other former president has been charged over the mishandling of government records

The Independent UK

Trump claims that National Archives ‘lost’ nuclear secrets but they ‘don’t care’

Amid worsening legal perils, former president posts 2012 story concerning ‘more than 1,500 boxes of classified documents’ going missing at records centre

The Independent UK

Biden turning to Trump-era rule to expel Venezuelan migrants

When Joe Biden was running for the White House, he denounced then-President Donald Trump's immigration policies

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Salon

Trump's "self-incriminating" response

Trump's rambling 14-page response to Jan. 6 subpoena is "powerfully incriminating evidence," says one expert

Los Angeles Times

Will Trump comply with Jan. 6 committee subpoena? What's next after Thursday's hearing

WASHINGTON — After closing out what could be the final installment in a series of high-profile hearings, the House's Jan. 6 select committee is left with decisions to make in its remaining weeks that could have profound effects for years to come.

WEKU

So Donald Trump has been subpoenaed. Here's what comes next

Trump is not known for cooperating with investigations that target him. So now that the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack has subpoenaed him, what comes next?

The Guardian - US

Could Trump testify? Subpoena sets up prospect of dramatic political spectacle

The former president is considering granting the Capitol attack committee’s demand to appear – but would such a move be wise?

Los Angeles Times

Justice Department appeal contends special master review of Mar-a-Lago search records is unnecessary

WASHINGTON — A special master review of documents taken from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate should not have been approved, the Department of Justice argued in its first filing in the appeal to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

The Independent UK

Justice Department asks appeals court to toss Trump special master order

‘Most fundamentally, the district court erred in exercising equitable jurisdiction to entertain [Mr Trump’s] action in the first place’

The Independent UK

Justice Dept. seeks end to arbiter's review of Trump docs

The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s appointment of an independent arbiter to review documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate

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