A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana. The Trump administration immediately appealed to a higher court, asking that the executions move forward.
“I do not consider the investigation to be corrupt, but I understand the president’s frustration given the outcome that there was no evidence” of a conspiracy between the campaign and Russia, he said.
Recommendations came in an 85-page report issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has been investigating Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
But the report found that none of the information shared by the former FBI director or his attorneys was classified, and the Justice Department has declined to prosecute Comey.
FBI agents collected four memos from James Comey's house one month after he was fired, according to court documents made public this week as part of a lawsuit by the organization Judicial Watch.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, halted a bipartisan effort to beef up state election systems ahead of the 2018 election and on Thursday blocked Democrats from pushing forward a House-passed bill to authorize funding for the states.
Robert Mueller's report on Russia's interference in the 2016 election describes how Kremlin-backed spies installed malware on the network of an unnamed company that "developed software used by numerous U.S. counties to manage voter rolls."
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security analysis of laptops used in Durham County is the first known federal probe of voting technology that malfunctioned during the 2016 election, when Russian hackers infiltrated election systems in several states.
The special counsel’s remarks, made May 29 in his first in public since being tasked two years ago with investigating Russian interference to help Trump win the 2016 presidential election, stood as a strong rebuttal to Trump’s repeated claims that he was exonerated and that the inquiry was a “witch hunt” that found no crime.
Meeting by meeting, questions of competence, generational change, #MeToo politics, special counsel Robert Mueller's report and the 2020 elections are animating the fight for power.
When Trump wanted to fire then-FBI Director James Comey, who was overseeing the Russia probe, Rosenstein wrote the memo that the White House used to justify the dismissal. But eight days later, Rosenstein took a step that Trump feared would end his presidency: appointing Robert Mueller as special counsel.
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