Smith also filed a motion for expedited review in the D.C. Circuit to prevent delay of Trump’s Jan. 6 trial

The appeals court kept the parts of the order regarding protection of witnesses and court personnel, but vacated the rest. 

A UN secretary-general has not explicitly invoked Article 99, described as the secretary-general’s “most powerful tool,” since 1989.

The petitioners are represented by counsel for Free Speech For People, a non-profit that has filed similar challenges in Minnesota and Michigan. 

The indictment alleges that the two defendants released information collected from targeted accounts to the press before the 2019 elections in the United Kingdom.

The six Nevadans were each charged with one count of offering false instrument for filing or record and one count of forgery.

The Justice Department unsealed an indictment of four members of the Russian military and/or affiliated forces for the abduction and torture of a U.S. national. 

Judge Wallace added in a footnote that the correct interpretation of Section 3 was “not for this court to decide.”

Victor Manuel Rocha is indicted with charges of having acted as an agent of the government of Cuba for over four decades.

District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan rejected two of Trump’s motions to dismiss the Jan. 6 case.

The preliminary injunction stated that the ban was “unlikely to even pass intermediate scrutiny.”

 In Blassingame, the court found that Trump is not protected under absolute immunity from civil claims for damages incurred during the Jan. 6 riot.