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MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade said Thursday on “Chris Jansing Reports” that she believed former President Donald Trump is more likely to get criminally charged because Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed former U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert Hur as special counsel to oversee the investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents. McQuade said, “They both begin with the idea that classified information is supposed to be handled in appropriate ways. There are rules about those things, and failure to do so can violate a number of different statutes. So I imagine in those ways, they...

MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade said Monday on “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump could be charged with manslaughter for his role in the January 6 Capitol riot. Discussing Liz Cheney’s comments, Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “Let me ask you, I think what they’re saying is that even if you were that deluded, quote, ‘You may not send an armed mob to the Capitol or sit for 87 minutes and refuse to stop the attack. You may not send out a tweet that incites further violence.’ It sounds like around the violence. She’s looking at what the committee talks about...

HONOLULU (AP) - Renowned San Francisco lawyer George T. Davis, whose storied career took him to the U.S. Supreme Court, the post-World War II Nuremberg trials and the Vietnam War-era My Lai trials, has died. He was 98. Davis died Feb. 4 of heart failure on Hawaii's Big Island, where he had lived since 1980, his wife, Ginger, said Thursday. Davis, who had connections and clients around the world and once played himself in a movie, tried cases that made headlines across four decades, placing him among America's most famous trial attorneys. He ran the Northern California presidential campaigns of...