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Legal experts say of all the charges filed against the former president and his aide, obstruction is one of the most serious. Of all of the federal charges that former president Donald Trump and his aide Walter Nauta face in the investigation into the alleged mishandling of top secret government documents, obstruction is one of the most serious, according to legal experts. Claire Finkelstein, the founder and faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, noted that the obstruction charges in the indictment against Trump and his aide carry as much serious weight as the charges related to keeping the top secret documents, with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Finkelstein told ABC News this was not surprising, as the federal government has always treated allegations of interfering with any investigation seriously and often spearhead these kind of probes. The Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United Sta...

Jack Teixeira, the member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard accused of leaking classified documents online, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Jack Teixeira, the member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard accused of leaking classified documents online, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. He is facing six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information relation to the national defense, according to the Justice Department. Teixeira, 21, is accused of abusing his security clearance to take classified documents and post them on social media sites, according to the Department of Justice. Teixeira revealed the kinds of military hardware the U.S. was prepared to deliver to Ukraine to assist in its defense of Russia’s invasion and put the supply line in potential jeopardy, the indictment said. MORE: Jack Teixeira: What we know about document leak suspect "The unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified information jeopard...

Officials revealed preliminary findings regarding the Surfside collapse, but a victim's father says it feels like there is an "excessive delay" with the investigation. Federal investigators looking into the Surfside, Florida, condo collapse that killed 98 people in 2021 said Thursday the structure did not meet building codes when it was erected 42 years ago. "Our preliminary analysis of the original structural design of CTS shows that the building did not meet building codes in effect at the time, nor today’s building codes," National Institute of Standards and Technology project leader James Harris said at a public hearing. "Furthermore, there’s evidence of errors in construction and renovations that compounded those deficiencies." NIST cautioned that these updates are preliminary. Investigators are placing a particular emphasis on the pool deck, with NIST's Glenn Bell saying there were pervasive concerns with the deck's design and misplac...

Robert Bowers has been convicted in the killing of 11 worshippers in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Robert Bowers was found guilty on Friday on all counts in the 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 worshippers. Bowers was convicted on all 63 charges, including 11 counts of hate crimes resulting in death . Bowers offered to plead guilty if the death penalty was taken off the table, but prosecutors turned him down. The bullet damaged doors of the Tree of Life synagogue building in Pittsburgh, was entered June 1, 2023, as a court exhibit by prosecutors in the federal trial of Robert Bowers. U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania via AP MORE: Pittsburgh synagogue massacre: Remembering the 11 victims The jury deliberated for less than one day. Jurors will next weigh if Bowers should be sentenced to death . Bowers stormed the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, gunning down 11 people in the deadliest antisemitic attack in Amer...

Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty in February to dozens of federal hate crimes and firearms charges. The El Paso Walmart gunman was formally sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences for the racist 2019 massacre that killed 23 people and injured nearly two dozen others, according to El Paso ABC affiliate KVIA. Judge David Guaderrama handed down the sentence on Friday after hearing two days of emotional impact statements from victims and the family members of victims. The gunman , 24-year-old Patrick Crusius, pleaded guilty in February to dozens of federal hate crimes and firearms charges. El Paso Walmart shooting suspect Patrick Crusius pleads not guilty during his arraignment in El Paso, Texas, Oct. 10, 2019. Briana Sanchez/AP Crusius allegedly told investigators following his arrest that he set out to kill as many Mexicans as he could after driving from his home in Allen, Texas, about 650 miles east of El Paso, officials said. Twenty-two shooting victims died within days of the ...

Attorneys for former President Trump have notified Georgia state court in Fulton County that they may seek to remove his case to federal court, according to a new filing. Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have notified Georgia state court in Fulton County that they may seek to remove his election interference case to federal court , according to a court filing. If Trump seeks removal to federal court, he would be the sixth defendant in District Attorney Fani Willis' sweeping racketeering case to do so, joining former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former DOJ official, Jeffrey Clark, former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham, current Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still, and former Georgia GOP chair David Shafer. Meadows' motion for removal, filed on Aug. 15 by his attorney George Terwilliger and Atlanta-based attorney Joseph Englert, is based on a federal law that they argue requires the removal of criminal proceedings brought in state court to the federal cour...

Former President Trump has filed a motion seeking to have the judge overseeing his federal 2020 election interference case be recused and disqualified. Former President Donald Trump on Monday made his first formal push to have the judge overseeing his federal 2020 election interference case be recused and disqualified , according to a filing from his attorneys. The recusal motion filed by Trump's attorneys cites comments from D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in past cases she oversaw for individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which they argue shows she "suggested that President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned." "Such statements, made before this case began and without due process, are inherently disqualifying," Trump's attorneys said in the motion. "Although Judge Chutkan may genuinely intend to give President Trump a fair trial -- and may believe that she can do so -- her public statements unavoida...

A former Trader Joe’s employee is accusing the grocery chain of pregnancy discrimination and retaliation in a federal suit filed in the ​​U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. A former Trader Joe’s employee is accusing the grocery chain of pregnancy discrimination and retaliation in a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, alleging mistreatment and claiming that a change in the company's health insurance policy led to her coverage being wrongly revoked after she went on maternity leave. Julia Hammer, 42, began her employment as a full-time employee at Trader Joe’s Lower East Side location in Manhattan on October 19, 2018, and was transferred upon her request in April 2021 – shortly before giving birth – to the grocery chain’s Long Island City location in Queens, according to the complaint obtained by ABC News. Hammer claims in the lawsuit that upon returning to work from maternity leave in August 2021, her employer failed to provide her with a...

Lawyers for three Georgia Republicans who falsely claimed that Donald Trump won the state and that they were “duly elected and qualified” electors are set to argue that their criminal charges should be moved from state to federal court ATLANTA -- Lawyers for three Georgia Republicans who falsely claimed that Donald Trump won the state and that they were “duly elected and qualified” electors are set to argue Wednesday that criminal charges against them should be moved from state to federal court. David Shafer, Shawn Still and Cathy Latham were among the 18 people indicted last month along with Trump on charges they participated in a wide-ranging scheme to keep the Republican president in power after his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. All 19 defendants have pleaded not guilty. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones is set to hear arguments Wednesday on why Shafer, Still and Latham believe the case against them should be tried in federal court rather than in Fulton County Superior Cou...

A judge has denied Hunter Biden's effort to avoid appearing in person at his arraignment on federal gun charges, ordering him to appear at a hearing scheduled for Oct. 3. A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday denied Hunter Biden's effort to avoid appearing in person at his arraignment on federal gun charges, ordering him to appear at a hearing scheduled for Oct. 3. Judge Christopher Burke wrote that the president's son "should be treated just as would any other defendant in our court." Hunter Biden's legal team had sought to have him appear virtually, citing "the financial impact on government resources and the logistical burden on the downtown area of Wilmington" as reason enough to avoid an in- person appearance. MORE: Timeline: Hunter Biden under legal, political scrutiny Prosecutors earlier Wednesday rebuffed that effort, arguing that an in- person arraignment is "important to promote the public's confidence that the defendant i...