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Judge Emmet Sullivan of the DC District Court on Tuesday dismissed Michael Flynn’s criminal case as moot, following Flynn’s pardon by President Donald Trump, ending a tortured three-year-long proceeding. In his 43-page opinion, Sullivan critiqued Trump’s pardon of Flynn, however, calling it “extraordinarily broad.” He noted that the pardon does not make Flynn innocent. Flynn

Judge Emmet Sullivan of the DC District Court on Tuesday dismissed Michael Flynn’s criminal case as moot, following Flynn’s pardon by President Donald Trump. Read Sullivan’s opinion here: cnn.com/2020/12/08/politics/read-michael-flynn-emmet-sullivan-opinion/index.html

Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who has been leading the Trump campaign’s legal efforts to dispute the results of the 2020 presidential election, has contracted the coronavirus, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to CNN. The source said White House aides have been informed that she has contracted the virus, but that Ellis has not

House Majority Whip James Clyburn lambasted Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday over his repeated efforts to undermine the election results in Georgia, saying his fellow South Carolinian has “lost grip on reality.” Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, argued Monday on Fox News that Georgia needs to conduct an audit of the

First lady Melania Trump’s office announced Monday the finalization of the White House Tennis Pavilion — a tone deaf accomplishment to trumpet amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and as the federal government remains locked on providing further economic relief to millions of suffering Americans. The project has been in the works since October 2019, when

President-elect Joe Biden has selected retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, the former commander of US Central Command, to be his secretary of defense, two sources familiar with the decision told CNN on Monday. If confirmed by the Senate, Austin would be the first Black man to lead the Department of Defense. Biden reached out to

President-elect Joe Biden will likely announce retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin as his nominee for defense secretary on Tuesday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, and is now expected to announce some domestic Cabinet picks on Friday. Biden, asked by reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, earlier Monday when he would announce his selections for

The Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Adam Smith, offered a full-throated endorsement of Michele Flournoy to be President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for Defense Secretary on Monday, just hours before news broke that Biden selected retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin for the job. While Smith told reporters he had communicated his support

Face masks have become the new normal on Capitol Hill, and one Republican congressman is calling out some lawmakers for the messages they have chosen to put on their masks. US Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week saying face masks worn by some members diminish “the

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will deliver remarks in Georgia on Wednesday, less than a month before the state’s Senate runoff elections. According to a notice from the State Department, Pompeo’s address to Georgia Tech will focus “on the China challenge to U.S. national security and academic freedom.” Pompeo has pursued a hardline approach to

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aimed at prioritizing the shipment of the coronavirus vaccine to Americans before other nations, according to senior administration officials. The signing is slated to take place during a vaccine summit at the White House, with the hope that the order will allay fears

President-elect Joe Biden could return to the nation’s capital for his inauguration ceremony the way he long bridged his life at home and his job in politics: On an Amtrak train from Wilmington, Delaware, to Washington, DC. It would be a fitting moment for the man who took roughly 8,000 round trips on that same

It was a tale of two realities in Georgia this weekend. Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, a young, ambitious Republican, told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday that “mountains of misinformation” from allies of President Donald Trump alleging large-scale voter fraud in the presidential election were hurting GOP efforts in the runoff elections for US Senate. Hours later

President Donald Trump‘s staunchest defenders on Capitol Hill are urging him not to concede even after President-elect Joe Biden wins the Electoral College vote next week, calling on their party’s leader to battle it out all the way to the House floor in January as he makes unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud. The view

Where President Donald Trump decides to spend the final weeks of his presidency has become a matter of internal speculation as aides wonder whether he’ll leave the White House for the holidays — and never return. At this stage, there are plans for Trump to remain at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach over Christmas

The House and Senate will vote this week to keep the government open until December 18, giving negotiators an extra week to strike a deal on a massive government spending package and pandemic relief. Congress is up against the clock. Unless it passes additional legislation, the federal government will run out of money on December

Georgia recertified its presidential election results on Monday, again finding Joe Biden as the winner following three counts of ballots, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said. The recertification is a yet another blow to President Donald Trump, who has for weeks baselessly claimed a “rigged” election in the state and attacked election officials for not

The Supreme Court on Monday delved into atrocities committed during World War II and heard two cases brought by victims and their family members who are seeking compensation for property they say was stolen from them during the Holocaust. The justices will ultimately decide whether the cases against Germany and Hungary can proceed in US

There is a sense developing within Donald Trump’s legal team and what remains of his campaign staff that their efforts to overturn or delay the results of the election are coming to an end, multiple sources tell CNN, despite what the President has said publicly. Trump said in a 46-minute video released last week that