The Georgia Court of Appeals removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the election interference case against president-elect Donald Trump and 18 others on Thursday over Willis’ previously undisclosed relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. The appeals court agreed with the trial court that the relationship created an “appearance of impropriety,” and found that [...]

Special prosecutor Jack Smith dropped two criminal cases against US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday, including his 2020 election interference case and an appeal in his classified documents case, which had been dismissed in July. According to Smith’s court filing, the Department of Justice (DOJ) determined it would be unconstitutional to prosecute Trump because of [...]

William Hibbitts is JURIST’s Deputy Editorial Director, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He filed this dispatch from Halifax.  The atmosphere in Halifax was marked by contrasts Saturday. On the one hand, Canada’s largest east coast city and longtime Atlantic naval base was yet again hosting the Halifax International Security Forum, an annual conference attended [...]

New York Judge Juan Merchan indefinitely postponed president-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money case Friday following a joint motion from prosecutors and Trump’s defense team. Sentencing was scheduled for November 26, after the US presidential election, but Trump’s victory has thrown the four criminal cases against him into uncharted territory. Merchan’s order also allowed [...]

US president-elect Donald Trump nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to head the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday, hours after controversial former congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination to the post. Bondi previously joined President Trump’s defense in his 2019 impeachment trial. Announcing his new pick, Trump touted Bondi as being “very tough [...]

Former US President Donald Trump is safe after US Secret Service agents shot at a man pointing an AK-47-style rifle through a fence while the ex-president was golfing at his course in West Palm Beach, Florida, authorities confirmed during a press conference Sunday. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said that his office received a [...]

A judge in Georgia’s Fulton County dismissed three charges in the state’s election interference case against Donald Trump and others on Thursday, citing a conflict with federal law. Judge Scott McAfee found that Counts 14, 15, and 27 in the state’s indictment must be dropped because an 1890 US Supreme Court ruling preempts states from [...]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced Friday that it had arrested a 20-year-old Pakistani man residing in Canada over an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at a New York City Jewish center on or around October 7, 2024, one year after the Hamas attack on Israel that killed nearly 800 civilians. [...]

New York Judge Juan Merchan on Friday delayed former US president Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money criminal case to November 26, with the new date scheduled three weeks after the US presidential election. Trump’s attorneys requested the postponement in August to prepare a potential appeal and avoid a “politically prejudicial” effect on the [...]

The US Department of Justice has unsealed criminal charges against Hamas political leader Yahya Sinwar over his participation in the October 7 attacks on Israel. The criminal complaint charges Sinwar, as well as the deceased Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Mohemmed Deif, with a variety of terrorism offenses including: Conspiracy to provide material support for [...]