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US President Donald Trump issued Thursday an executive order targeting big law firm WilmerHale for their employment of individuals involved in the Mueller special counsel investigation, employment practices, and the nature of the firm’s pro-bono work. The order criticized the firm’s employment of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and top aides to the Russian election [...]

The US Senate on Thursday confirmed President Donald Trump’s appointee Kash Patel as the new director of the FBI with a party-line vote of 51-49. Only two Republican senators voted against confirmation. Arkansas Senator Lisa Murkowski and Maine Senator Susan Collins both voted nay, following through on vows to reject the nomination based on Patel’s partisan [...]

On December 1, President Joseph Biden announced a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, on charges of gun and tax violations, reversing his pledge not to pardon him if convicted. In his statement, the president wrote: Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter … The charges in his cases came about only after [...]

The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that charges have been filed against Dimitri Simes, a Russian-born US citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Simes is accused of working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds from his involvement. The first indictment alleges that Simes and [...]

A US appeals court ruled on Friday that Georgian-American businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze can proceed with a defamation lawsuit against former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller was appointed in 2017 to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. A final report detailing the investigation’s findings was released to the public in 2019. Rtskhiladze claims [...]

A state judge in Florida ruled on Saturday in favor of Donald Trump by allowing his libel lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board to proceed. This decision, issued by Senior Judge Robert Pegg of the state’s Nineteenth Circuit, ensures that Trump’s case will move forward to the discovery phase. The lawsuit centers on a statement [...]

The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal (1950) (Principle [...]

“So far from it being unjust to punish him, it would be unjust if his wrongs were allowed to go unpunished.” Nuremberg Tribunal (1946) At the beginning of 2024, former President Donald J. Trump’s most conspicuously unsupportable legal claim has been his personal immunity from criminal prosecution. With this claim, Mr. Trump and his lead [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit heard oral arguments from federal prosecutors and former President Donald Trump’s legal team on the issue of presidential immunity earlier this week. Trump argued that he is shielded from criminal liability in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against him, which alleges that Trump interfered in the [...]

“Each state is expected, perpetually, to aid and enforce the law of nations, as part of the common law, by inflicting an adequate punishment upon the offenses against that universal law.” William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law of England (Book 4) After January 6, 2021, it was disclosed by the special investigating committee of the [...]