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...The arrests come at a sensitive time for Maduro, who is running for re-election in July this year....
..., the Ecuadorean attorney-general said on Tuesday....
...In effect, he added, the prosecution will be saying: “Well, they’ve lied in the past, but now they’re not.”...
...“They don’t hold him accountable because they’re worried about losing viewers,” DeSantis told reporters in Iowa....
...“We’re calling on the government of Spain to request extradition or any real information on Rocío’s status,” Minnie Díaz said....
...“We’re not going to be given a fair trial. It’s a very, very sad thing,” he added. Additional reporting by Steff Chávez in Washington...
...Daniel Thomas...
...outside attorney hired by her office....
...Today we’re getting into: Opening arguments in Trump’s “hush money” trial What does it take to win Pennsylvania?...
...Hur was nominated by Trump in 2017 to serve as US attorney for Maryland and confirmed with bipartisan support in the US Senate....
...The mantra at the US attorney’s office in Manhattan, where I once worked, is “thin to win”. Obviously, the two prosecutors struck very different balances....
...The selection process will be arduous — even Trump appeared to nod off in the uncomfortably warm courtroom yesterday — as the judge, prosecutors and defence attorneys question roughly 500 potential jurors...
...“We’re not going to change our approach....
...News-in-depth In March 2021, an investigation into payments allegedly made by Donald Trump to silence porn star Stormy Daniels was abandoned by a former district attorney and federal prosecutors....
...In today’s newsletter we’re talking about: Donald Trump’s legal sagas The Maga machine’s preparation for a second term Why it’s no longer “the economy, stupid” Yesterday was a mixed bag for Donald Trump...
...They’re getting away with, you know, a lot of stuff it seems to be in Dubai and he felt, I think, untouchable. Miles JohnsonEric Montalvo is an attorney in Washington DC....
...We’re also reading . . . America’s transport crisis: The debacle at Boeing and the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge are connected, writes Rana Foroohar, in unexpected ways....
...“[The interrogators] told me: ‘You are a thief, a liar, and you’re going straight to prison,” Meza told the Colombian rightwing weekly Semana in May....
...I will beat Daniel in the lion’s den,’” Madrid said. “And that’s what the bases of both parties want. They don’t have to agree with you on every issue....
...“I don’t think there’s any communication between the sides,” Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli attorney focusing on geopolitics in Jerusalem, said of the open divide in the country....
...‘Hush money’ case Manhattan’s district attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump in March with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records....
...Joe Biden has clearly made the decision that he cannot be seen to be politicising in anyway. It’s his Justice Department and it’s his attorney-general....
...“We’re entitled to understand what the charges are” and “do our own investigation”, he said. The Department of Justice said it would respond in court....
...One 2020 election case would not necessarily throw a wrench in the other, said Daniel Richman, a professor at Columbia Law School....
...“[Trump’s] not worth what we’re doing to our criminal justice system.” joshua.chaffin@ft.com...
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