Romanian prosecutors searched for devices in the Andrew Tate case

BUCHAREST, Romania — Andrew Tate, the divisive internet personality who is under house arrest in Romania on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, appeared at prosecutors’ offices on Monday for forensic searches of electronic equipment confiscated during investigations, his lawyer said. Tate, 36, a British-US citizen who has six million Twitter followers, was initially […]

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How a Trump Lawyer Is ‘Fishing’ for Info on Other Probes With the New York AG Case

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Getty As Donald Trump prepares for an indictment that could come any minute now, one of his top lawyers is apparently trying to use another case to siphon information about every possible pending investigation into the former president—including ones that Trump might not even know about yet. That covert […]

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Military justice reforms still leave some criminal cases to commanders with no legal expertise

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. More than a year has passed since Congress adopted reforms that promised to overhaul the US military justice system. Lawmakers stripped military commanders of their authority to prosecute certain serious cases but […]

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Jane Roberts’ legal recruiting work involved officials whose agencies had cases before the Supreme Court

Jane Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, acknowledged having represented a wide variety of public officials — including senior Justice Department officials and Cabinet members — as they transitioned to jobs in the private sector, according to testimony in an arbitration hearing to resolve a lawsuit filed by an ex-colleague against her former […]

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Federal appeals court strikes down domestic violence gun law

(AP) – A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the government can’t stop people who have domestic violence restraining orders against them from owning guns — the latest domino to fall after the US Supreme Court’s conservative majority set new standards for reviewing the nation’s gun laws. Police in Texas found a rifle and a […]

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Attorney in Tire Nichols’ case says unreleased footage could help ‘connect all the dots’

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said on Thursday that additional, unreleased footage related to Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols could “connect all the dots” related to the incident. Memphis officials last week released a graphic video of a group of law enforcement officers beating Nichols during a traffic stop earlier this month. The video […]

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