A former Virginia police officer who took part in the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021, received a reduced sentence on Sept. 4. Thomas Robertson was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington to six years in prison, down from seven years and three months. Robertson, who has been imprisoned for more […]
Will Trachman, general counsel for Mountain States Legal Foundation, and Curtis Hill, former attorney general for the state of Indiana, joined NTD for legal analysis of Hunter Biden’s surprise change of plea in his alleged tax evasion case in Los Angeles, and the alleged election interference case against former President Donald Trump resuming Thursday in […]
Newly revealed footage shows then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s reactions to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. The footage was recorded by Pelosi’s daughter Alexandra Pelosi and handed over to the U.S. Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight by HBO, the distributor of the documentary film “Pelosi in the House.”
Former President Donald Trump faced a revised federal indictment on Tuesday accusing him of trying to overturn the 2020 election. U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained the superseding indictment. NTD speaks to Mark Miller, senior attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, to hear his analysis of the new indictment.
In the wake of a crucial Supreme Court decision, U.S. prosecutors have started dropping obstruction charges against defendants alleged to have been involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. Government prosecutors informed defendants and the judge overseeing the defendants’ cases that it will drop charges brought under federal law Section 1512(c)(2) […]
Peter Navarro, who was part of former President Donald Trump’s administration, has been released from prison after serving a four-month sentence for a contempt of Congress conviction. Mr. Navarro, 75, was released on July 17, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email. Mr. Navarro is now headed to the Republican […]
The Supreme Court announced July 11 that on Sept. 30 it will formally consider whether to hear Jan. 6 defendant Russell Dean Alford’s appeal. Mr. Alford, of Hokes Bluff, Alabama, argues that he should not have been convicted of two counts of federal disorderly conduct because he remained passive during the brief time he was […]
Jim Burling, vice president of legal affairs at the Pacific Legal Foundation, joined NTD to discuss two U.S. Supreme Court decisions that came out on Friday.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that the federal government should not have used an accounting law to charge Joseph Fischer with obstruction of an official proceeding for briefly entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will affect prosecutions involving other Jan. 6 defendants, lawyers told The Epoch Times. Lawyers said those defendants who have not […]
