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Justice

Legal system, courts, and law enforcement

69w ago
Justice•20q•30 min

Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders got commutations not pardons, legal difference matters

Trump gave full pardons to most Jan. 6 defendants — including Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, whose 22-year seditious conspiracy conviction was erased — but only commuted the sentences of Stewart Rhodes and about a dozen other militia leaders, leaving those felony convictions on the books

69w ago
Justice•22q•33 min

Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon blocked the public from reading Smith's classified documents report

Judge Aileen Cannon — who dismissed Trump's classified documents case in July 2024 — barred the Justice Department from releasing Volume 2 of Jack Smith's final report, keeping secret the evidence about Trump's retention of national security documents at Mar-a-Lago

70w ago

Idaho law criminalizes helping pregnant minors cross state lines for abortion

Appeals court allows Idaho to prosecute adults who help minors access legal abortions in other states

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70w ago
Justice•21q•32 min

Jack Smith evidence sufficient to convict Trump but election blocked prosecution

Special Counsel Jack Smith released his 137-page final report on January 14, 2025, concluding his office had enough evidence to convict Trump at trial — but that Trump's re-election made prosecution constitutionally impossible under DOJ policy

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70w ago
Justice•22q•33 min

Jack Smith's final report says Trump would have been convicted if he hadn't won

Special Counsel Jack Smith released Volume 1 of his final report on January 14, 2025, documenting the evidence against Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election and concluding that the evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial had Trump not won re-election

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71w ago
Justice•22q•33 min

Judge Merchan sentences Trump to unconditional discharge on 34 felony counts

Judge Juan Merchan gave Trump the only sentence he said does not encroach on the presidency — no jail, no fine, no probation — but left 34 felony convictions permanently on his record

71w ago
Justice•28q•42 min

Judge Merchan sentences Trump to unconditional discharge with no jail, fine, or probation

On January 10, 2025, Judge Juan Merchan sentenced president-elect Donald Trump to an unconditional discharge on all 34 felony counts, saying any custodial sentence would encroach on the presidency — leaving Trump the first convicted felon to take the oath of office ten days later

312 topics in 'Justice'

Sep 15

Justice

Billionaire lawfare weaponizes courts to silence critics and eliminate competition

Secret funding weaponizes courts against media critics

14q · 21 min

Sep 15

Justice

How Corporate Donors Captured Conservative Think Tanks (2000–2024)

Silicon Valley money shapes lifetime court appointments

22q · 33 min

Aug 23

Justice

Biden DOJ Sues RealPage for Algorithmic Rent Price-Fixing

DOJ sues RealPage for enabling landlords to coordinate rent increases through shared pricing algorithms

24q · 36 min

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Jul 15

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Cannon dismissed the Trump classified documents case using an Appointments Clause argument no court had accepted before

Judge Aileen Cannon threw out a 40-count federal indictment against Donald Trump on July 15, 2024, ruling that Attorney General Merrick Garland lacked the constitutional authority to appoint Jack Smith as special counsel

22q · 33 min

Jul 1

Justice

Sotomayor and Jackson say the Supreme Court made the president a king above the law

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan issued dissents warning that the 6-3 immunity ruling removed criminal accountability for any president who commits crimes through official channels

22q · 33 min

Jun 20

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Prosecutors let Epstein walk while questioning victims like criminals

Grand jury transcripts reveal prosecutorial failures that protected a predator

20q · 30 min

Jun 11

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Hunter Biden convicted on three federal felony counts in Delaware gun trial

First presidential child convicted of federal felony

20q · 30 min

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May 30

Justice

New York jury convicts Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg convicted Donald Trump on May 30, 2024 by proving Trump falsified Trump Organization payment records to hide a $130,000 hush money payment that Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels 11 days before the 2016 election

22q · 33 min

Dec 18

Justice

Federal judge denies Mark Meadows motion to move Georgia RICO case, citing lack of federal jurisdiction

Mark Meadows tried to move Georgia's RICO charges against him into federal court, arguing his participation in Trump's effort to overturn the election was part of his official White House duties — and the 11th Circuit rejected that argument in December 2023

20q · 30 min

Oct 24

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Four Georgia RICO defendants take plea deals, agree to testify against Trump

Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, and Scott Hall each pleaded guilty in fall 2023, dodging RICO convictions in exchange for probation, restitution, and sworn cooperation with Fulton County prosecutors

20q · 30 min

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