The Washington, D.C., federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's election interference case declined to recuse herself Wednesday, saying statements she made at previous Jan. 6 sentencing hearings "do not manifest a deep-seated prejudice" that would prevent her from making a fair judgment in the former president's case.
Stefan Passantino, a former Trump administration attorney who represented former aide Cassidy Hutchinson during the House select committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection, on Friday accused former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann of defamation for posting a tweet claiming Passantino coached Hutchinson to lie during her congressional testimony.
Ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black urged a New York federal judge Wednesday to sanction employment boutique Wigdor LLP in a lawsuit accusing him of raping an autistic teenager at Jeffrey Epstein's town house in 2002, saying the plaintiff "concocted the entire story" and the firm is aiding her "delusions."
Two women who brought allegations of sexual misconduct against former George Mason University law professor Joshua Wright told a Virginia judge on Tuesday that Wright is pursuing a $108 million defamation lawsuit to punish them for speaking out and to expose them to "public ridicule, harassment and professional consequences."
The Virginia federal judge overseeing the U.S. Department of Justice's ad tech monopolization case against Google released a written opinion on Monday detailing her decision to grant the federal government's bid to nix the tech giant's bias prosecution defense, saying Google hasn't presented adequate evidence of government bias.