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DOJ Charges 2 Ex-FBI Officials Over Hunter Biden Laptop Case

Pair are charged with lying to Congress ahead of 2020 election

(Newser) - Two former FBI intelligence officials who specialized in foreign election interference were charged Friday with making false statements to Congress about their roles in investigating Hunter Biden's laptop in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides surrendered Friday and made their first appearance...

Smith Hearing Gets Testy Over Alleged Basketball Texts

Ex-special counsel defends election probe to Congress, says he's not cowed by Trump threats

(Newser) - Jack Smith had a blunt message for senators on Tuesday: Threats won't shut him up. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the former special counsel defended his since-dismissed federal criminal cases against Donald Trump and said he wouldn't be cowed "by continued threats of prosecution" over his...

Judge Throws Out 2020 Elector Fraud Case

Similar prosecutions are going nowhere in other states

(Newser) - The yearslong case against six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting a bogus certificate that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the state's 2020 presidential election has been dismissed, a judge ruled Thursday. The dismissal is the latest setback in swing states' efforts to prosecute fake electors...

Some Republicans Are Worried About Trump's Speech

They'd like him focus on the cost of living instead of the 2020 election

(Newser) - President Trump is teeing up a primetime address expected to focus on election security, and Politico reports that plenty of Republicans wish he'd pick a different topic. With gas prices climbing again amid tensions with Iran, GOP strategists say voters are fixated on the cost of living, and they'...

Trump to Give Primetime Address Thursday Night

President is expected to make 2020 election conspiracies a focus of his national address

(Newser) - President Trump is set to address the nation on Thursday night on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he is likely to revisit some of the unproven claims he has previously made about Republican losses, particularly his own in 2020. Trump has offered only vague details...

Federal Judge Tosses 2020 Election Subpoena

He says grand jury process is being misused in Georgia investigation

(Newser) - A federal judge in Georgia has shut down a Justice Department push to dig back into the 2020 vote in Atlanta's Fulton County, ruling that a subpoena for information on local election workers went too far and wasn't justified. US District Judge William Ray called the request's...

FBI Field Offices Ordered to Put Staff on 2020 Vote

New surge focuses on Georgia investigation

(Newser) - Federal agents are flooding into one of the most scrutinized battlegrounds of the 2020 election. CNN reports the FBI has labeled its Georgia election probe a priority in an internal memo. It instructs field offices around the country to assign analysts to the effort, while calling for a total of...

Judge Lets FBI Keep Seized 2020 Georgia Ballots

Court agrees with Fulton County that warrant process was problematic

(Newser) - A federal judge has declined to order the FBI to return more than 600 boxes of 2020 election materials it seized from Fulton County, Georgia, ruling that federal agents may keep the ballots as part of an ongoing investigation. US District Judge JP Boulee wrote that while certain portions of...

It's Both Good News and Bad News for Tina Peters

Colorado appeals court orders redo of ex-election clerk's sentence but upholds her convictions

(Newser) - A Colorado court says a high-profile election case needs a do-over on punishment, not guilt. The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday tossed out the nine-year sentence for former Mesa County elections clerk Tina Peters, ruling that the trial judge improperly relied in part on her political speech when deciding...

FBI Just Expanded Its Inquiry Into the 2020 Vote

Agency subpoenas voting records in Maricopa County

(Newser) - The Justice Department is staying aggressive in investigating President Trump's claims of a stolen election in 2020. Federal investigators have issued a subpoena for records related to voting in Maricopa County, reports Politico . As the New York Times notes, Maricopa is the state's biggest county and a "...

Here's How the FBI Justified the 2020 Georgia Ballot Seizure

Affidavit references possible 'deficiencies' that have already been thoroughly investigated

(Newser) - The FBI relied on years-old claims of fraud, many of them thoroughly investigated, to obtain a search warrant to seize ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday that shows the investigation began with a referral from an administration official who tried to help...

Fulton County Wants the FBI to Return Seized 2020 Ballots

Georgia county asks court to unseal search affidavit

(Newser) - Fulton County officials want their 2020 election materials back, and a look at why the FBI took them in the first place. On Wednesday, the Georgia county asked a federal court to order the return of all files confiscated by the FBI last week, a county spokesperson said, per ABC...

Gabbard Coordinated Call Between Trump, FBI Agents

National intelligence director defends her presence at a raid of Fulton County elections hub

(Newser) - Tulsi Gabbard's surprise presence at an FBI raid of an election center in Georgia has drawn the criticism of Democrats, but the director of national intelligence is defending herself in a letter to lawmakers. Key points:
  • Trump directive: Gabbard says President Trump himself asked her to attend the raid
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Take Control of Elections From States, Trump Tells Congress

Repeating fraud claims, president says Republicans should 'nationalize the voting'

(Newser) - President Trump on Monday called on Republicans in Congress to seize control of elections, which would conflict with how the Constitution assigns that authority. In an interview Monday with podcaster Dan Bongino, Trump again asserted without evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him and said the GOP...

Spy Chief's New Mission: Find 2020 Election Fraud

Democratic senator had wondered why the director of national intelligence was at an FBI election office raid in Georgia

(Newser) - The US director of national intelligence, a job that usually focuses on foreign and national security threats, has been assigned to a priority of President Trump's: Investigate the 2020 election for evidence of fraud. Tulsi Gabbard has been devoting much of her time to reexamining the presidential election won...

FBI Executes Search Warrant at Georgia Elections Office

Sources say Fulton County search is linked to 2020 election

(Newser) - FBI agents were executing a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta on Wednesday, an agency spokesperson confirmed. An FBI spokesperson said agents were "executing a court authorized law enforcement action" at the county's main election office in Union City, just south of Atlanta, the...

Trump 'Undermined Democracy,' Smith Tells Heated Hearing

Former special counsel rejects partisan claims, defends indictments to House panel

(Newser) - Jack Smith walked into a congressional hearing on Thursday for what may be his only public opportunity to explain why he twice charged Donald Trump with federal crimes—and to insist politics had nothing to do with those decisions. "No one should be above the law in this country,...

Smith: There Was 'Powerful Evidence' Against Trump

He says there was 'proof beyond a reasonable doubt' of conspiracy to overturn 2020 election

(Newser) - Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview on Wednesday that his team of investigators "developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that President Trump had criminally conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to portions of his opening statement obtained by...

FBI Couldn't Read Data Pointing to Pipe Bomb Suspect

WSJ reports cellphone location data held for 4 years was only recently deciphered

(Newser) - Cellphone data that proved crucial in the arrest of the suspect accused of planting pipe bombs on the eve of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot sat disregarded for four years, the Wall Street Journal reports, "because investigators couldn't figure out how to read it." That changed only...

2 Trump Aides Will Face Trial in Fake Elector Scheme

Wisconsin case is moving forward as those in other states have faltered

(Newser) - A Wisconsin judge ruled Monday there is enough evidence to proceed to trial in a felony forgery case against an attorney and an aide to President Trump for their role in the 2020 fake elector scheme. The charges relate to attempts by the former aides to present a slate of...

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