President Obama's influence couldn't translate to wins in Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races. Jon Stewart suggests that the president should follow in Gov. Sarah Palin's footsteps by quitting his job and writing a book.
This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast Nov. 4, 2009.
The judge initially assigned to oversee the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump will likely be subject to a recusal request from the Department of Justice, an expert said Friday.
Judge Aileen Cannon was initially assigned, ABC reported. She's a Trump appointee who was previously humiliated by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals for her earlier actions around the case when she tried to block the FBI from reviewing documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
Daniel Uhlfelder, who ran an unsuccessful race for Florida attorney general in 2022, said he expects the recusal request was inevitable given her previous involvement.
Cannon appointed a special master last year to review materials seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago last year, then tried to block the FBI from reviewing documents saying, "A future indictment, based to any degree on property that ought to be returned, would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude."
She was overturned by Florida's Court of Appeals.
“The law is clear,” Judge William Pryor wrote for the unanimous panel from the Eleventh Circuit. “We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so. Either approach would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts’ involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations.”
Uhlfelder asked if the Justice Department prosecutors would move to have Cannon recused.
"If it does and is successful, case will likely be transferred to Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, who is also in [West Palm Beach]. Trump unsuccessfully tried to recuse him before," he tweeted Friday.
The Department of Justice is investigating a conservative-backed effort in Wyoming to infiltrate the Democratic National Committee before the 2020 election, CNN reported.
Former British intelligence officials Richard Seddon and Susan Gore, along with others, were subpoenaed in the investigation that was apparently triggered by a 2021 New York Times article that detailed “an undercover operation by conservatives to infiltrate progressive groups, political campaigns, and the offices of Democratic as well as moderate Republican elected officials during the 2020 election cycle.”
The investigation is looking into whether any campaign finance laws have been broken and is being handled by the public corruption unit of the US attorney’s office in D.C.
Also subpoenaed were Erik Prince, the security contractor and brother to former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and James O’Keefe, the former head of Project Veritas.
Read the full report over at CNN.
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney (UT) added his name to the list of leaders commenting on Donald Trump's indictment for theft of documents and conspiracy to obstruct justice Friday.
In a statement, Romney clarified that this is more significant than other legal woes Trump faces.
"Mr. Trump brought these charges upon himself by not only taking classified documents, but by refusing to simply return them when given numerous opportunities to do so," said Romney.
In a previous statement, Romney attacked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his charges against Trump that he felt were an overreach. In this case, Romney said things are different.
“By all appearances, the Justice Department and special counsel have exercised due care," Romney said.
Romney was the only Senate Republican to vote to remove Trump from office. He did so twice.
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