Donald Trump has been indicted for a third time. Special counsel Jack Smith has charged the former president with four counts of conspiracy and obstruction for his actions leading up to the events of January 6, 2021. This indictment follows Alvin Bragg’s in New York—pertaining to Trump’s alleged campaign-finance violations in 2015 and 2016, as he arranged to settle a dispute with Stormy Daniels—and Smith’s first indictment in June, a collection of federal charges relating to Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and his subsequent obstruction of the inquiry thereof.
In other legal news, Delaware district judge Maryellen Noreika declined to ratify Hunter Biden’s plea deal with the Justice Department, observing that the deal favored “form over substance” and was, in other words, too sweet. The first son had previously pled guilty to two misdemeanor tax-fraud charges and entered a pretrial diversion agreement on one felony firearms charge after failing to disclose his ongoing substance abuse when purchasing a handgun. The younger Biden recently made his first court appearance since the DOJ began investigating him in 2018, under Trump-appointed prosecutor David Weiss’s supervision.
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