PoliticsA federal grand jury in Washington on Tuesday refused to return the Justice Department's proposed indictment of a person prosecutors had brought before it. A DOJ lawyer told a magistrate judge in open court that the jurors did not concur, without naming anyone. Officials and people briefed on the case told four news organizations it was former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, whose 2022 testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee Republicans have called false. She was never charged, and a no-bill does not stop prosecutors from trying again.
PoliticsTrump-appointed U.S. District Judge David Barlow ruled Oct. 23 that the Civil Rights Act of 1960 does not reach Utah's statewide voter list and dismissed the Justice Department's suit with prejudice. Of 31 DOJ voter-roll suits, 27 have now been dismissed, Oklahoma settled, and suits against Delaware, Hawaii and Idaho remain pending. Most dismissals are on appeal.
PoliticsTwo weeks before the midterms, a Georgia county commissioner and Utah's Republican lieutenant governor told Lesley Stahl that federal investigations are shaking confidence in elections. The Justice Department's civil rights chief says the distrust was already there, and that noncitizen voting is being prosecuted.
