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Judge Cannon on Tuesday held a final day of hearings on Jack Smith’s classified documents case against President Trump. President Trump’s lawyers filed a flurry of motions to dismiss Jack Smith’s case. Judge Cannon scheduled an expanded hearing to allow both sides to present their cases. Cannon did not issue any rulings after Tuesday’s hearing concluded. One of Jack Smith’s prosecutors threw a tantrum and accused Trump’s attorneys of “hijacking” the hearing. Judge Cannon interrupted Smith’s prosecutor David Harbach and put him in his place. “There is no hijacking going on — it’s about to end,” Judge Aileen Cannon responded,...

Rep. William Jefferson, as Ricky Ricardo would say, “has some ’splainin’ ta do”… mostly to members of Congress whose nerves he’s rattled like maracas on a trampoline. First the Louisiana Democrat was videotaped accepting a $100,000 bribe from an FBI informant, his home was raided, $90,000 was found in his freezer, then his congressional office was raided. Until we reached the latter, everything was business-as-usual with how Congress viewed all this. For the first time in history, a lawmaker’s office was raided. Yes, the first time in history. This has to be causing some members of Congress to have a...

The Search for Tre Arrow, Ecoterrorist FBI searches for activist some call an ecoterrorist, others call a hero Apolitical Florida teen transforms himself into NW forest champion BY BEN JACKLET Tre Arrow burst into Portland like Bob Dylan blew into Greenwich Village 40 years ago. A gifted performer with a self-invented moniker, he arrived from parts unknown, embraced an underground scene and quickly climbed into the spotlight. Arrow has since crashed to earth in more ways than one. Two years after he gained rock star status by spontaneously free-climbing and occupying a ledge on a downtown building, and one year...