Trump suffers twin setbacks as judges reject calls to dismiss charges

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump suffered a pair of legal setbacks on Thursday as judges spurned his calls to dismiss criminal charges over the former U.S. president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in Georgia and his keeping classified records after leaving office. Separately, one of the Republican presidential candidate’s allies, former Justice…

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Judge denies New York county’s request to let it enforce trans sports restrictions

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by New York’s Nassau County to let it enforce new restrictions on transgender athletes at county sports venues without facing legal action by the state’s attorney general for violations of anti-discrimination laws. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, issued an…

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Trump Georgia election subversion judge dismisses some charges

(Reuters) -The judge in Donald Trump’s Georgia election subversion trial on Wednesday dismissed three criminal counts against the former U.S. president and three others against co-defendants, a court filing showed on Wednesday, while letting the overall case proceed. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee decided that allegations by state prosecutors that Trump and his co-defendants tried…

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Hunter Biden rejects House Republicans’ call for public testimony

By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden rejected a request to testify to an open hearing before a Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives committee conducting an impeachment probe of his father, his lawyer said on Wednesday. “Your blatant planned-for-media event is not a proper proceeding but an obvious attempt to…

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