#Appeals panel weighs whether government overreached in its social media requests

#Appeals panel weighs whether government overreached in its social media requests

Lawyers for the Biden administration and two Republican attorneys general presented arguments to an appeals panel Thursday over whether a district judge overreached by barring government officials from communicating with social media companies about controversial posts.  During oral arguments, a three-judge panel in Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeals asked whether the government acted in…

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#Alarm grows as Ukraine’s counteroffensive falters

#Alarm grows as Ukraine’s counteroffensive falters

There is growing alarm about the pace and prospects of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, with few signs of progress in recent weeks and Russian lines holding strong.  Those concerns picked up steam in the past week after Ukraine launched a second push in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and has still come up mostly empty in the eyes…

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#House GOP will subpoena Biden family, says Republican chairman

#House GOP will subpoena Biden family, says Republican chairman

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said that his committee, which has been investigating the foreign business dealings of President Biden’s family members, will eventually move to subpoena the Biden family — a move Comer hinted could include the president himself. “This is always going to end with the Bidens coming in…

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#Trump, Nauta plead not guilty to additional Mar-a-Lago charges

#Trump, Nauta plead not guilty to additional Mar-a-Lago charges

Donald Trump pleaded not guilty through his attorneys Thursday in a second court appearance after Justice Department lawyers brought additional charges in the Mar-a-Lago case accusing the former president of leading an effort to delete security camera footage from his Florida home. Trump’s co-defendant in the case Walt Nauta, Trump’s valet, pleaded not guilty. Another…

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#Trump faces uphill battle in moving case from DC

#Trump faces uphill battle in moving case from DC

Legal experts have cast doubts that former President Trump and his legal team will succeed in attempting to move his case on Jan. 6 charges out of Washington, D.C., especially before jury selection is even conducted. Trump has floated the idea of moving his case to nearby West Virginia in the hopes he might face…

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