dismisses

6 Results / Page 1 of 1

News

Judge dismisses indictments against Letitia James and James Comey, citing Trump’s illegal appointment of prosecutor

A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie amount to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to target Trump’s political opponents. It also highlights its legal maneuvering to hastily install a loyalist prosecutor willing to file […]

todayNovember 25, 2025 2

News

Trump’s Republican Party insists there’s no affordability crisis and dismisses election losses

NEW YORK (AP) — Almost two weeks after Republicans lost badly in elections in Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, many GOP leaders insist there is no problem with the party’s policies, its message or President Donald Trump’s leadership. Trump says Democrats and the media are misleading voters who are concerned about high costs and the economy. Republican officials aiming to avoid another defeat in next fall’s midterms are encouraging candidates to embrace the president fully and talk more about his accomplishments. Those are the major takeaways from a […]

todayNovember 16, 2025 1

News

Democrats seize on docs tying Trump to Epstein, as White House dismisses ‘manufactured hoax’

Democrats are seizing on the latest document dump from the FBI files on Jeffrey Epstein, which ties President Donald Trump to the sex trafficking pedophile. The White House slammed the release as done by Democrats in “bad faith” and dismissed emails mentioning Trump as a “fake narrative.” But Democrats say the latest docs provide more justification to release the entire FBI files on Epstein, who was federally charged and died by suicide in 2019 before going to trial. As theGrio […]

todayNovember 12, 2025 1

News

Judge dismisses corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams

A federal judge dismissed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday, acquiescing to the Justice Department’s extraordinary request to set aside criminal charges so the Democrat could help with President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The judge, though, denied prosecutors the ability to potentially bring the criminal case back after the mayoral election. Judge Dale E. Ho’s order to dismiss the case “with prejudice” spares Adams from having to govern in a way that pleases Trump, or potentially risk having the Republican’s […]

todayApril 2, 2025

News

Federal judge dismisses Trump classified documents case over concerns with prosecutor’s appointment

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Florida dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on Monday, siding with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, which is expected to be appealed and may eventually be overturned by a higher court, brings at least for now a stunning and abrupt conclusion to a criminal case that at the time it was […]

todayJuly 15, 2024 1

News

North Carolina justice ends suit against ethics panel after it dismisses complaint

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina Supreme Court justice ended her federal lawsuit against an ethics commission on Wednesday because she said the judicial panel scrutinizing her public comments about the courts, colleagues and race has dismissed a complaint against her. An attorney for Associate Justice Anita Earls, one of two registered Democrats and the only Black jurist on the seven-member court, filed paperwork to end the lawsuit against the state Judicial Standards Commission and its members. The commission […]

todayJanuary 18, 2024