Keeping up with Donald Trump’s court schedule is a dizzying task, since he faces two federal trials, a criminal trial in Georgia, and two separate civil and criminal trials in New York. * That’s because last week New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan postponed the hush money trial, brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, until mid-April and it …
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CNN — President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly withdrew the nomination for Jessie Liu, the former US attorney who headed the office that oversaw Roger Stone’s prosecution, to serve in a top Treasury Department position, three sources told CNN. On Tuesday afternoon, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he didn’t ask the Justice Department to change the sentencing …
Washington CNN — In an extraordinary move, all four federal prosecutors who took the case against longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone to trial withdrew Tuesday after top Justice Department officials undercut them and disavowed the government’s recommended sentence against Stone. In a new filing Tuesday, the US Attorney’s Office in Washington revised the sentencing recommendation to be “far less” …