A federal appeals court dismissed criminal charges against two Trump associates accused of helping him mishandle classified ...

Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute ...

Attorney General Bondi’s antagonism toward special counsels underscores the decisiveness of her pivot away from the ...

The request came to the 11th United States Appeals Circuit. President Biden’s Department of Justice had asked that tribunal to overturn Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling that Mr. Smith was unlawfully ...

The Justice Department has halted its appeal, which was aimed at reinstating the criminal charges against Trump's employees.

“The United States of America moves to voluntarily ... U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case, in July, saying that the prosecutor who brought it, special counsel Jack Smith ...

But an appeals court refused to block the report and Attorney General Merrick Garland released it after Trump’s last-ditch emergency request to Cannon. United States District Judge Aileen Cannon ...

Cannon’s ruling stated that Garland, the Department of Justice, Smith, and “all of their officers, agents, and employees, and all persons acting in active concert or participation with such ...