Trump investigation: special counsel Jack Smith obtained search warrant for Twitter account – live

Here’s a recap of today’s developments:

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• The US special counsel who is investigating Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for the former president’s Twitter account, and the social media platform delayed complying, a court filing on Wednesday showed. The delay in compliance prompted a federal judge to hold Twitter in contempt and fine it $350,000, the filing showed.

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• A previously unseen internal memo from the 2020 Trump campaign describes in detail the plot by Donald Trump and his lawyers to subvert election results in six states, according to a copy obtained by The New York Times. The memo describes a three-pronged plan to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory on 6 January 2020, that involved coordinating with Republican electors and campaign attorneys in six states, as well as Mike Pence.

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• The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia is expected to seek more than a dozen indictments when she presents her case before a grand jury next week, according to a report. The prosecutors in the office of district attorney Fani Willis completed its internal reviews for criminal charges in the Trump case weeks ago, and could present evidence to a grand jury and ask it to return indictments as early as next Tuesday, the Guardian reported on Tuesday.

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• The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s election subversion case, US district judge Tanya Chutkan, has set a date for a hearing on a proposed protective order by prosecutors. The protective order, if granted, will govern how evidence is handled in the case. The order, requested last Friday by special counsel Jack Smith’s team, asks for Trump to be prohibited from publicly sharing evidence in the case during the discovery phase.

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• The California US senator Dianne Feinstein, 90, was hospitalized on Tuesday evening after suffering a fall in her home, a spokesperson said. “Senator Feinstein briefly went to the hospital yesterday afternoon as a precaution after a minor fall in her home,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “All of her scans were clear and she returned home.” At 90, Feinstein is the oldest serving US senator.

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• Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, suspended the top prosecutor in Orlando on Wednesday, claiming “dereliction of duty” on crime. In return, the prosecutor said DeSantis, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, was a “weak dictator” acting undemocratically and for political reasons.

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• A respected conservative judge who advised the former Republican vice-president Mike Pence not to attempt to overturn the 2020 election believes Donald Trump has destroyed the Republican party. “American democracy simply cannot function without two equally healthy and equally strong political parties,” J Michael Luttigtold CNN on Wednesday. “So today, in my view, there is no Republican party to counter the Democratic party in the country.

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The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia is expected to seek more than a dozen indictments when she presents her case before a grand jury next week, according to a report.

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The prosecutors in the office of district attorney Fani Willis completed its internal reviews for criminal charges in the Trump case weeks ago, and could present evidence to a grand jury and ask it to return indictments as early as next Tuesday, the Guardian reported on Tuesday.

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Willis has been eyeing conspiracy and racketeering charges, which would allow her to bring more than a dozen indictments against multiple defendants, CNN reported, citing sources.

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In the Trump investigation, prosecutors have developed evidence to pursue a sprawling racketeering case that is predicated on a statute about influencing witnesses and computer trespass by Trump operatives in Coffee county, the Guardian has previously reported.

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The extent of Trump’s legal jeopardy remains unclear. But the racketeering statute in Georgia is especially expansive and attempts to solicit or coerce certain activity – for instance, Trump’s call to the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger – could be included in the indictment.

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The district attorney’s office has also weighed several state election law charges, including: criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud, as well as solicitation of a public or political officer to fail to perform their duties and solicitation to destroy, deface or remove ballots.

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The district attorney’s office has spent more than two years investigating whether Trump and his allies interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia, including impaneling a special grand jury that made it more straightforward to compel evidence from recalcitrant witnesses.

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Special counsel Jack Smith sought and obtained a search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account as part of his criminal investigation of the former president, according to newly revealed court documents.

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Twitter, now known as X, initially delayed production of the materials required by the search warrant, which resulted in a federal judge holding the company in contempt and levying a $350,000 fine.

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A voting machine company behind a $2.7bn defamation lawsuit over lies about the 2020 election said Rudy Giuliani was using excuses like “the dog ate my homework” to avoid the discovery process.

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Lawyers for Smartmartic wrote:

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The dog ate my homework.’ ‘I have to wash my hair.’ ‘I can’t go out, I’m sick.’ Since the dawn of time, people have made up excuses to avoid doing things they do not want to do.

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This is exactly what Giuliani has done here.

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The former New York mayor turned personal attorney to Donald Trump, 79, is named alongside Fox News in the lawsuit, which follows a defamation suit Fox News settled for $787.5m with Dominion Voting Systems.

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In the Smartmatic case, in Monday court filings first reported by CNN, lawyers expressed frustration over trying to get Giuliani to turn over relevant records.

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They said:

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For months, Giuliani has made up excuses to get out of his discovery obligations … To date, Giuliani has not produced a single non-public document responsive to the discovery requests Smartmatic issued 14 months ago.

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The company asked a New York judge to force Giuliani to turn over materials.

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Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected a proposal that would have made it considerably harder to amend the state constitution in a major win for reproductive rights and democracy advocates in the state.

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The result means that Ohio will keep its current process for amending the state constitution in place. The procedure first requires voters to collect a certain number of signatures from at least 44 of the state’s 88 counties to send an amendment proposal to the ballot and then a simple majority to pass it.

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Issue 1, the proposal under consideration, would have made both of those steps harder. It would have required voters to collect signatures in all 88 counties and then required a supermajority of 60% to pass it.

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US president Joe Biden said of the result: “democracy won”.

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It was the first time since 1926 that Ohio voters cast ballots on a proposed constitutional amendment in August. Republicans, who control the state legislature, rushed the measure to the ballot in an effort to make it harder to pass a referendum to protect abortion rights that’s set for this fall.

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With a little over half of the vote counted, the “no” vote led 59% to 41%. A majority vote would have been needed to approve the amendment, which was not possible given votes left to be counted, the Associated Press projected.

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis suspended the Orlando-area state attorney, Monique Worrell, accusing her of under-prosecuting criminals in her jurisdiction.

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Worrell, a Democratic elected official who took office in 2021, was suspended for “dereliction of duty” on crime, DeSantis announced at a press conference in Tallahassee.

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An executive order signed by DeSantis and secretary of state Cord Byrd accused Worrell of “systematically” allowing criminals to evade incarceration and pursuing lenient sentences and declining to prosecute certain charges.

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“Prosecutors do have a certain amount of discretion about what cases to bring and which cases to not,” DeSantis said.

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But what this state attorney has done is abuse that discretion and effectively nullified certain laws in the state of Florida that breaches her duties that she owes to the people of Florida under our state constitution, and provides the basis for the suspension.

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The decision marks the second time DeSantis has suspended a democratically elected prosecutor from office. Both have been Democrats.

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Last year, the Florida governor suspended Hillsborough county state attorney, Andrew Warren, after Warren said he would not enforce state restrictions on abortion or gender-related surgery.

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An internal Trump campaign memo by Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer allied with Donald Trump, reveals new details about how the former president and his team initiated the plan to interfere with the electoral college process and install fake GOP electors in multiple states after losing the 2020 presidential election.

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The 6 December 2020 memo, made public on Tuesday by the New York Times, shows how Chesebro laid out the plan to put forth slates of Republican electors in seven key swing states that Trump had lost.

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The document, which federal prosecutors described as a “fraudulent elector memo”, revealed that Chesebro proposed the appointment of fake electors, and detailed a “messaging” strategy to portray them as evidence if legislatures later concluded Trump as the victor in those states.

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In the memo, Chesebro acknowledges that he is suggesting a “bold, controversial strategy” that the supreme court would “likely” ultimately reject. He argues that the plan would focus attention on claims of voter fraud and “buy the Trump campaign more time to win litigation that would deprive Biden of electoral votes and/or add to Trump’s column”.

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The memo was referenced in the four-count indictment against Trump by a Washington DC grand jury last month. The indictment identifies, but does not name, Chesebro as a co-conspirator in Trump’s alleged conspiracy to obstruct certification of the 2020 election.

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In separate, previously seen emails, Chesebro had also suggested having then-vice president Mike Pence open and count the electoral votes alone. Pence would then certify the fake electors’ votes, even though Biden would have won the state, according to the plan.

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Senator Dianne Feinstein was hospitalized after tripping and falling in her San Francisco home, according to multiple reports.

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The 90-year-old Democratic senator was taken to a nearby hospital and returned home on Tuesday night, TMZ reported.

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Feinstein’s spokesperson told the San Francisco Chronicle that she spent an hour or two in the hospital. Her scans were clear, he added.

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Feinstein has struggled with her health in recent years. She was absent from the Senate for two-and-a-half-months due to shingles and other medical complications.

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The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s election subversion case, US district judge Tanya Chutkan, has set a date for a hearing on a proposed protective order by prosecutors.

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The protective order, if granted, will govern how evidence is handled in the case. The order, requested last Friday by special counsel Jack Smith’s team, asks for Trump to be prohibited from publicly sharing evidence in the case during the discovery phase.

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The decision to schedule the hearing for Friday morning comes a day after the special counsel’s office and Trump’s legal team filed dueling motions over the proposed protective order.

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Trump is not required to be present at the Friday hearing in Washington DC, Chutkan said.

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The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia is expected to present evidence to a grand jury and ask it to return indictments as early as next Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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The prosecutors in the office of district attorney Fani Willis completed its internal reviews for criminal charges in the Trump case weeks ago, the people said. The review process, to identify any weakness with the case, is typically seen as the final step before charges are filed.

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Willis has also privately indicated to her senior staff that the prosecutors on the Trump case were sufficiently prepared that they could go to trial tomorrow, the people said.

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In the Trump investigation, prosecutors have developed evidence to pursue a sprawling racketeering case that is predicated on a statute about influencing witnesses and computer trespass by Trump operatives in Coffee county, the Guardian has previously reported.

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The extent of Trump’s legal jeopardy remains unclear. But the racketeering statute in Georgia is especially expansive and attempts to solicit or coerce certain activity – for instance, Trump’s call to the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger – could be included in the indictment.

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The district attorney’s office has also weighed several state election law charges, including: criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud, as well as solicitation of a public or political officer to fail to perform their duties and solicitation to destroy, deface or remove ballots.

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Willis originally suggested charging decisions were “imminent” in January, but the timetable has been repeatedly delayed after a number of Republicans who sought to help Trump stay in power as so-called fake electors accepted immunity deals as the investigation neared its end.

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. A lawyer allied with former president Donald Trump initially pitched the now-infamous plan to use fake electors in swing states to subvert the 2020 election results as “a bold, controversial strategy” that the supreme court would “likely” reject, according to a secret memo.

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Federal prosecutors are portraying the memo, dated 6 December 2020 and written by Kenneth Chesebro, as a crucial link in how the Trump team’s efforts to keep him in power evolved into a criminal conspiracy, according to a New York Times report. The existence of the memo came to light in last week’s indictment of Trump.

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Chesebro, identified as “co-conspirator 5” in the federal indictment of Trump, reportedly argued that the plan would focus attention on claims of voter fraud and “buy the Trump campaign more time to win litigation that would deprive Biden of electoral votes and/or add to Trump’s column”. He wrote in the memo:

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I recognize that what I suggest is a bold, controversial strategy, and that there are many reasons why it might not end up being executed on Jan. 6. But as long as it is one possible option, to preserve it as a possibility it is important that the Trump-Pence electors cast their electoral votes on Dec. 14.

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The document, described by prosecutors as the “fraudulent elector memo”, provides new details about how the plan originated and was discussed behind the scenes. The memo show the plan was a criminal plot to engineer “a fake controversy that would derail the proper certification of Biden as president-elect”, prosecutors said.

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Here’s what else we’re watching today:

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• 3pm EST: President Joe Biden will speak about his administration’s clean energy and manufacturing investments in Albuquerque.

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• 5.55pm EST: Biden will fly to Salt Lake city.

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• The House and Senate are out.

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Right here’s a recap of right now’s developments:

• The US particular counsel who’s investigating Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for the previous president’s Twitter account, and the social media platform delayed complying, a court docket submitting on Wednesday confirmed. The delay in compliance prompted a federal choose to carry Twitter in contempt and high-quality it $350,000, the submitting confirmed.

• A beforehand unseen inside memo from the 2020 Trump marketing campaign describes intimately the plot by Donald Trump and his legal professionals to subvert election ends in six states, according to a copy obtained by The New York Instances. The memo describes a three-pronged plan to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory on 6 January 2020, that concerned coordinating with Republican electors and marketing campaign attorneys in six states, in addition to Mike Pence.

• The Fulton county district lawyer investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election ends in the state of Georgia is anticipated to hunt greater than a dozen indictments when she presents her case earlier than a grand jury subsequent week, in line with a report. The prosecutors within the workplace of district lawyer Fani Willis accomplished its inside opinions for legal costs within the Trump case weeks in the past, and will current proof to a grand jury and ask it to return indictments as early as subsequent Tuesday, the Guardian reported on Tuesday.

• The choose presiding over Donald Trump’s election subversion case, US district choose Tanya Chutkan, has set a date for a listening to on a proposed protecting order by prosecutors. The protecting order, if granted, will govern how proof is dealt with within the case. The order, requested final Friday by particular counsel Jack Smith’s staff, asks for Trump to be prohibited from publicly sharing proof within the case through the discovery section.

• The California US senator Dianne Feinstein, 90, was hospitalized on Tuesday night after struggling a fall in her dwelling, a spokesperson mentioned. “Senator Feinstein briefly went to the hospital yesterday afternoon as a precaution after a minor fall in her dwelling,” a spokesperson mentioned in a press release. “All of her scans have been clear and she or he returned dwelling.” At 90, Feinstein is the oldest serving US senator.

• Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, suspended the highest prosecutor in Orlando on Wednesday, claiming “dereliction of responsibility” on crime. In return, the prosecutor mentioned DeSantis, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, was a “weak dictator” appearing undemocratically and for political causes.

• A revered conservative choose who suggested the previous Republican vice-president Mike Pence to not try to overturn the 2020 election believes Donald Trump has destroyed the Republican social gathering. “American democracy merely can not perform with out two equally wholesome and equally sturdy political events,” J Michael Luttigtold CNN on Wednesday. “So right now, for my part, there is no such thing as a Republican social gathering to counter the Democratic social gathering within the nation.

Martin Pengelly

J Michael Luttig told CNN:

A political social gathering is a group and assemblage of people who share a set of beliefs and ideas and coverage views about the US of America. At present, there is no such thing as a such shared set of beliefs and values and ideas and even coverage views as throughout the Republican social gathering for America.

Donald Trump, he mentioned, was a hazard “extra so right now” than final yr, when Luttig testified to the Home January 6 committee.

A revered conservative choose who was considered for the supreme court docket below George W Bush, Luttig made an incredible impression along with his January 6 testimony.

Talking on primetime tv, Luttig mentioned:

I imagine that had Vice-President Pence obeyed the orders from his president … and declared Donald Trump the subsequent president of the US … [he] would have plunged America into what I imagine would have been tantamount to a revolution, inside a constitutional disaster.

On Wednesday, Luttig also told CNN he didn’t assume Trump might keep away from conviction for election subversion.

“The proof is overwhelming that the previous president knew full effectively that he had misplaced the election,” he mentioned.

Martin Pengelly

A revered conservative choose who suggested the previous Republican vice-president Mike Pence to not try to overturn the 2020 election believes Donald Trump has destroyed the Republican social gathering.

“American democracy merely can not perform with out two equally wholesome and equally sturdy political events,” J Michael Luttigtold CNN on Wednesday. “So right now, for my part, there is no such thing as a Republican social gathering to counter the Democratic social gathering within the nation.

And for that purpose, American democracy is in grave peril.

American democracy has by most measures been in grave peril since 6 January 2021, the day Pence, as vice-president, took Luttig’s recommendation and refused to try to dam congressional certification of Joe Biden’s election win.

A mob Trump informed to “battle like hell” attacked the Capitol, some chanting for Pence to be hanged. The trouble failed however 9 deaths have been linked to the riot, together with regulation enforcement suicides. Greater than a thousand individuals have been charged and lots of convicted, some with seditious conspiracy.

A cousin of Elvis Presley is the Democratic candidate for governor in Mississippi, after profitable his major unopposed on Tuesday.

The overall election shall be held on 7 November. The Democrat, Brandon Presley, mentioned he would advocate for individuals who battle to make ends meet. He’ll face the present Republican governor, Tate Reeves, who defeated two first-time candidates, John Witcher, a doctor, and David Hardigree, a army veteran.

Mississippi is certainly one of three states holding races for governor this yr. Regardless of Republicans holding all statewide workplaces for 20 years, the Democratic Governors Affiliation chair, Phil Murphy of New Jersey, has predicted a Democrat might win.

In his hometown, Nettleton, Presley took the stage at his victory social gathering to See See Rider, a music Elvis Presley typically used as walk-on music. The candidate mentioned he wouldn’t sing, although.

“We’re making an attempt to get votes,” Presley mentioned. “We’re not making an attempt to lose them.”

Learn the total story right here.

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The US particular counsel who’s investigating Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for the previous president’s Twitter account, and the social media platform delayed complying, a court docket submitting on Wednesday confirmed.

The delay in compliance prompted a federal choose to carry Twitter in contempt and high-quality it $350,000, the submitting confirmed.

The submitting says the staff of US particular counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant in January directing Twitter, which lately rebranded to X, to supply “knowledge and information” associated to Trump’s Twitter account in addition to a non-disclosure settlement prohibiting Twitter from disclosing the search warrant.

The submitting says prosecutors obtained the search warrant after a court docket “discovered possible trigger to go looking the Twitter account for proof of legal offenses”. The court docket discovered that disclosing the warrant might threat that Trump would “would significantly jeopardize the continuing investigation” by giving him “a chance to destroy proof, change patterns of conduct”, in line with the submitting.

Twitter objected to the non-disclosure settlement, saying 4 days after the compliance deadline that it will not produce any of the account info, in line with the ruling. The judges wrote that Twitter “didn’t query the validity of the search warrant” however argued that the non-disclosure settlement was a violation of the primary modification and wished the court docket to evaluate the legality of the settlement earlier than it handed any info over.

The delay in compliance prompted a decrease court docket to Twitter in contempt, and on Wednesday, the federal court docket in Washington upheld that call.

Fulton county prosecutors to hunt greater than a dozen indictments in Trump case – report

The Fulton county district lawyer investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election ends in the state of Georgia is anticipated to hunt greater than a dozen indictments when she presents her case earlier than a grand jury subsequent week, in line with a report.

The prosecutors within the workplace of district lawyer Fani Willis accomplished its inside opinions for legal costs within the Trump case weeks in the past, and will current proof to a grand jury and ask it to return indictments as early as subsequent Tuesday, the Guardian reported on Tuesday.

Willis has been eyeing conspiracy and racketeering costs, which might enable her to deliver greater than a dozen indictments towards a number of defendants, CNN reported, citing sources.

Within the Trump investigation, prosecutors have developed proof to pursue a sprawling racketeering case that’s predicated on a statute about influencing witnesses and laptop trespass by Trump operatives in Espresso county, the Guardian has beforehand reported.

The extent of Trump’s authorized jeopardy stays unclear. However the racketeering statute in Georgia is very expansive and makes an attempt to solicit or coerce sure exercise – for example, Trump’s name to the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger – might be included within the indictment.

The district lawyer’s workplace has additionally weighed a number of state election regulation costs, together with: legal solicitation to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit election fraud, in addition to solicitation of a public or political officer to fail to carry out their duties and solicitation to destroy, deface or take away ballots.

The district lawyer’s workplace has spent greater than two years investigating whether or not Trump and his allies interfered within the 2020 election in Georgia, together with impaneling a particular grand jury that made it extra easy to compel proof from recalcitrant witnesses.

A bunch of LGBTQ+ veterans have filed a lawsuit towards the protection division and protection secretary Lloyd Austin over its failure to discharge them with rankings under Honorable in addition to paperwork language that “identifies their precise or perceived sexual orientation as the explanation for his or her discharge.”

The category motion lawsuit was filed on Tuesday on behalf of 5 veterans within the US district court docket of the northern district of California.

“LGBTQ+ veterans are entitled to aid from the federal government’s ongoing discrimination via the removing of separation narratives and codes that establish their sexual orientation, modification of codes that forestall re-enlistment, and upgrades to their discharge statuses as wanted,” the lawsuit mentioned.

“Requiring LGBTQ+ veterans to first bear the stigma and discriminatory results of carrying indicators of sexual orientation on their [discharge papers] after which navigate a damaged document correction course of to hunt decision violates their constitutional rights to equal safety, informational privateness, property, and due course of protected by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendments to the US Structure,” it added.

The lawsuit comes 13 years after the repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t inform” within the army.

Regardless of its repeal, the lawsuit alleges that the federal government has taken no steps to “appropriate this discrimination systematically.”

“As an alternative, it directs LGBTQ+ veterans to a pre-existing document correction and discharge improve course of to individually request modification of their information. This extensively criticized course of requires veterans to provoke prolonged particular person actions (together with the prolonged means of acquiring army information) and calls for that veterans show discrimination occurred, although the federal government has already conceded each the discriminatory nature of its insurance policies and the pernicious results,” it mentioned.

J. Michael Luttig, a outstanding retired choose and adviser to former vice chairman Mike Pence mentioned that “there is no such thing as a Republican social gathering.”

In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Luttig, who has issued harsh criticisms in direction of Donald Trump over his alleged involvement within the 2021 Capitol Hill riots and suggested Pence to not overturn the 2020 election outcomes, mentioned:

“American democracy merely can not perform with out two equally wholesome and equally sturdy political events. So right now, for my part, there is no such thing as a Republican social gathering to counter the Democratic social gathering within the nation…And for that purpose, American democracy is in grave peril.”

Luttig, who in June printed an op-ed within the New York Instances and criticized “Republican’s’ spineless assist” in direction of Trump, went on to criticize the Republican social gathering, saying:

“A political social gathering is a group and assemblage of people who share a set of beliefs and ideas and coverage views about the US of America. At present, there is no such thing as a such shared set of beliefs and values and ideas and even coverage views as throughout the Republican Social gathering for America.”

Luttig was a the previous choose on the 4th US circuit court docket of appeals and was a key witness within the January 6 hearings.

Final yr, throughout his testimony, he mentioned efforts to overturn the election outcomes have been “tantamount to a revolution.”

Former GOP operative Anton Lazzaro has been sentenced to 21 years in jail following his conviction of giving teenage women items, alcohol and cash in return for intercourse.

Lazzaro was handed the sentencing on Wednesday after he was discovered responsible in March of seven counts involving “business intercourse acts” with 5 15 to 16-year outdated women in 2020. Lazzaro was 30 years outdated on the time.

The Related Press experiences US district choose Patrick Schiltz saying that Lazzaro solely confirmed sympathy to 2 people all through the trial – “to himself and Jeffrey Epstein,” the late disgraced financier and convicted intercourse offender.

“It’s nearly as if Mr. Lazzaro arrange a intercourse trafficking meeting line,” Schiltz mentioned, including that he was struck by the “soulless, nearly mechanical nature” of how he took benefit of the women.

On Wednesday, one of many victims spoke in court docket, saying, “I nonetheless see him in my nightmares, in my panic assaults, in males of their thirties. … Placing Tony behind bars will save so many women.”

A mom of one other totally different sufferer informed Lazzaro, “The injury you induced my daughter, mentally and emotionally, you didn’t simply trigger that injury to her. You induced it to me and my household and all these victims and all of their households,” she mentioned. “You get up right here and also you don’t even care. You’re justifying your actions. … I hope you rot in hell,” the Related Press experiences.

Prosecutors in search of to acquire a search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account “confronted difficulties” when it first tried to serve Twitter with the warrant and nondisclosure order, in line with the court documents.

The submitting says that Twitter objected to producing any of the account info on 1 February 2023, 4 days after the compliance deadline. The submitting states:

Twitter knowledgeable the federal government that it will not adjust to the warrant till the district court docket assessed the legality of the nondisclosure order.

A day later, Twitter filed a movement to vacate or modify the nondisclosure order, it says.

In its movement difficult the nondisclosure order, Twitter argued that the order violated the corporate’s First Modification proper to speak with its subscriber, former President Trump. The corporate asserted that compliance with the warrant earlier than decision of the movement to vacate or modify the nondisclosure order would preclude the previous President from asserting govt privilege to defend communications made utilizing his Twitter account.

Based on newly revealed court documents, Twitter was barred from notifying anybody {that a} search warrant had been obtained for Donald Trump’s Twitter account.

The particular counsel’s workplace sought the warrant in January 2023 as a part of its investigation into the previous president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

The submitting says particular counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant directing Twitter to supply “knowledge and information” associated to Trump’s Twitter account. The submitting says the court docket “discovered possible trigger to go looking the Twitter account for proof of legal offenses”.

The court docket “discovered that there have been ‘affordable grounds to imagine’ that disclosing the warrant to former President Trump ‘would significantly jeopardize the continuing investigation’ by giving him ‘a chance to destroy proof, change patterns of conduct, [or] notify confederates’”, the submitting writes.

The district court docket additionally concluded the non-disclosure order was needed as a result of it “discovered purpose to imagine that the previous President would ‘flee from prosecution’”, it says.