UPDATE: A spokesman for Arizona AG Kris Mayes says Trump's pardons "will have no impact" on how she decides to pursue her ongoing criminal case against Trump's allies in the 2020 election effort. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The pardons are primarily symbolic: No one on the list has been charged with federal crimes, and Trump can't pardon those facing state charges in GA, AZ, NV and WI.

But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

MORE: The pardon language is extremely broad and could apply to many others too, since it covers anyone who advocates for the false elector slates or who investigated 2020 election fraud.

One person the pardon explicitly excludes: Trump himself.

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"It’s likely that SNAP recipients are hungry as we sit here," McConnell says.

He also says Trump and his allies have admitted to withholding SNAP benefits for "political reasons" rather than to preserve child nutrition programs, which the judge said was a pretext."

McCONNELL said Trump's Truth Social post was essentially an admission of his "intent to defy the court order when he said 'SNAP payments will be given only when the government opens.' As a result "people will go hungry, food pantries will be burdened and … suffering will occur."

NEW: New warning signs abound for the "highly unusual" criminal case against James Comey, as a magistrate judge scolded prosecutors and ordered them to turn over a massive trove of records by tomorrow afternoon.

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SCHOENING's testimony, at a federal trial on the legality of Trump's guard deployment in Portland, describes federal officails as repeatedly using "indiscriminate" force against protesters despite no signs of threat from protesters.

NEW: For the third time, a judge has ruled that one of the Trump administration's temporary U.S. attorney picks was unlawfully appointed and disqualified from the job. This time, it was Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in L.A.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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NOTABLE: The judge says the indictment sEssayli presided over are not dismissed bc they were signed by other lawfully appointed prosecutors. That reasoning, if adopted in other courts, bodes poorly for Lindsey Halligan, who was the only person to sign Comey/James indictments.