A federal appeals panel on Tuesday declined to issue a broad order blocking special counsel Jack Smith’s team from accessing data from Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry’s cell phone that was seized by the FBI, and sent the case back to a lower court for further litigation over what material investigators can examine.
Former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio is scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge Tuesday for leading a failed plot to forcibly prevent the peaceful transfer of power from then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.
The impeachment trial of Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general who faces accusations of repeatedly abusing his office to help a donor, is set to begin Tuesday in the Republican-controlled state Senate.
Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine said Sunday “there’s a powerful argument to be made” for barring Donald Trump from the presidential ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists holding public office.