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July 14, 2020

Maryland federal judge allows access to abortion pill without doctor's visit, cites coronavirus pandemic

Citing the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Maryland ruled Monday to suspend a health and safety regulation requiring women to visit a hospital, clinic or medical office to obtain an abortion pill.

July 14, 2020

Andrew McCarthy: Roger Stone commutation — in political move, judge in case makes this demand of Trump

It wouldn’t be the Trump era if a federal judge simply accepted a lawful presidential action that Trump critics found upsetting.

July 13, 2020

Roger Stone hails 'enormously courageous' Trump, says he 'saved my life' after 'most horrible experience'

Longtime Republican operative Roger Stone publicly thanked President Trump for commuting his impending jail sentence Monday, saying the president had shown "enormous courage."

July 13, 2020

Ghislaine Maxwell wrapped her phone in tin foil in bid to evade law enforcement, feds say

Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite arrested earlier this month for allegedly conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls, tried to evade FBI agents before she was taken into custody and wrapped her cellphone in tin foil to avoid detection, federal prosecutors said Monday. 

July 13, 2020

Federal judge blocks imminent execution, last-minute appeals likely

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has stayed all pending federal executions—including one set for Monday afternoon.

July 11, 2020

Ex-prosecutors Tolman & Rizer: Romney wrong to attack Trump commutation of Roger Stone prison sentence

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, on Saturday denounced President Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s prison sentence as “unprecedented, historic corruption.” But as former prosecutors, we believe the Stone prosecution was always a questionable waste of resources, with a shaky factual basis and marked by blatant politicking.

July 11, 2020

Andrew McCarthy: Dems attacking Trump for Roger Stone clemency defended outrageous Clinton and Obama pardons

I can’t get too whipped up over President Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s 40-month sentence for nonviolent criminal obstruction of a bogusly based and ridiculously over-prosecuted investigation.

July 10, 2020

Gregg Jarrett: Trump right to commute Roger Stone’s sentence – Stone committed no crime, was framed by Mueller

By commuting the prison sentence of Roger Stone on Friday, President Trump took a justified step in rectifying an egregious wrong.

July 10, 2020

Tucker Carlson praises Roger Stone sentence commutation, says arrest and trial were a 'set-up'

Tucker Carlson lauded President Trump's commutation of longtime Republican political consultant Roger Stone's prison sentence Friday, saying the 67-year-old had been the victim of a "nakedly political" set-up aimed to put him away for the rest of his "useful and expected life."

July 10, 2020

Gregg Jarrett: Biased anti-Flynn rogue judge exceeds authority by refusing to dismiss wrongful charges

Judge Emmett Sullivan, who presides over what the Justice Department now admits was the wrongful prosecution of President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, refuses to dismiss the case despite an outstanding order from a higher court to do so.