Nearly three years after his conviction on federal obstruction charges, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was ordered to begin serving his three-year prison sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take his appeal.
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Dusting off a procedure not seen in the House of Representatives for 21 years, lawmakers voted 228-193 to transmit articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate on Wednesday.
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Two months after pleading guilty in California to secretly working as a foreign agent, venture capitalist Imaad Zuberi was charged Tuesday in New York with obstructing an investigation into his nearly $1 million donation to the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
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President Donald Trump abused the power of his office and obstructed congressional oversight into his misconduct, the Democrat-dominated House of Representatives voted after six hours of bitter debate on Wednesday.
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Calling for articles of impeachment to proceed expeditiously for a vote by the full chamber, the House Judiciary Committee detailed its findings from weeks of hearings in a 658-page report Monday.
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Though scarcely left out in the monthslong inquiry of President Donald Trump’s conduct in Ukraine, the word bribery is notably absent from the articles of impeachment leveled against him.
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Donald Trump became the fourth president in U.S. history to face formal impeachment proceedings Tuesday morning as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a resolution charging abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Read moreHouse Democrats are ready to move forward with at least two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Tuesday that will likely include abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Read moreThe impeachment inquiry transformed into a law class Wednesday as four professors testified on the legal basis for bringing charges against President Donald Trump. Here are key takeaways from Day 1 of the hearings before the House Judiciary Committee.
Read moreCalling for grand jury records in the special counsel’s investigation to be made public, a lawyer for House Democrats told the D.C. Circuit on Monday about mounting evidence that the president lied to Robert Mueller.
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Roger Stone can now add convicted felon to the list of colorful monikers he’s collected over decades in Washington, besides dirty trickster, political provocateur and longtime Trump adviser.
Read more“Truth still matters” was the resounding close from the Justice Department in the final moments of Trump confidant Roger Stone’s trial in Washington.
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Steve Bannon testified in D.C. federal court Friday that Roger Stone was the Trump campaign’s only inroad to WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential election.
Read moreThe Justice Department put a comedian on the witness stand Thursday, locking in testimony that colored texts and emails federal prosecutors hope will prove longtime Trump associate Roger Stone engaged in witness tampering.
Read moreAccused of obstructing an investigation and possible prosecution, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is facing a wrongful-death lawsuit from a woman whose son was killed in a gang-related shooting she says is linked to the mayor’s grandson.
Read moreIn a stunning layout of the events federal prosecutors aim to prove transpired at the highest levels of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, the Justice Department told a federal jury that Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone lied to Congress about his communications with WikiLeaks in order to protect the president.
Read moreRoger Stone’s trial kicked off Tuesday in Washington, D.C., with a bizarre turn of events as the Trump associate, who first advised the president to make a run for the White House decades ago, went home sick in the early hours of selecting a jury to decide if he lied to Congress about his communications with WikiLeaks.
Read moreRoger Stone flashed no double V-shaped hand signs on Monday when he arrived at D.C. federal court, a gesture he frequently uses to invoke Richard Nixon’s memory.
Read moreOutgoing U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Saturday that he asked President Donald Trump to make the phone call at the center of the impeachment inquiry because it was “important” for the country’s energy needs and had nothing to do with former Vice President Joe Biden or his son Hunter.
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