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DC reporter for Reuters on crime, justice and investigations. Data, documents and "convoluted KGB style back-door" stuff. Lawyer, but not yours. 202-527-9709, [email protected]
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UPDATE: More than two months after they were ordered to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return, DOJ’s Yaakov Roth, Drew Ensign, and others proclaim that the Trump administration defendants “have complied with the Court's order.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Four leaders of the Proud Boys who were pardoned after being found guilty of trying to keep President Donald Trump in power on Jan. 6, 2021 after he lost the election to Joe Biden filed a lawsuit seeking $100 million from the government reut.rs/440nwEh
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And an issue that I haven't seen come up before: Trump says CBS' conduct is so bad that the federal government has had to look into it. Unsaid is that he, the plaintiff, controls the executive branch and appointed the person who is doing the investigating.
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President Trump's lawyers also go out of their way to say that CBS' decision to edit is interview of Kamala Harris the way it did was not because it was biased or had an opinion, but was instead a "for-profit scheme to deceive the American people."
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The upshot of President Trump's argument is that if a news program airs footage in its advertisement that it then does not include in its news broadcast, that is deceptive commercial speech that is not protected by the First Amendment.
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President Trump's lawyers also told a judge that the fact that 60 Minutes' interview of Kamala Harris did not include some footage that was also in one of its ads for the segment caused him both confusion and "mental anguish."
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Some of Paramount's directors are worried that settling giving President Trump $15 million to settle his lawsuit and maybe smooth the way to his administration's approval of their merger could expose them to criminal liability for bribing a public official.
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