Folks, it’s Kacee. One story on the site since last night’s recap, and it’s a courtroom fight worth your time. Let’s walk through it.
A judge throws out the DOJ’s unsigned charge against two ex-FBI officials. U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui on Tuesday struck a new obstruction complaint the Justice Department posted to the public docket shortly after midnight against former FBI officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, saying prosecutors skipped the step of getting a judge to approve it first. The original false-statement charges, which accuse the pair of lying to the House Judiciary Committee in 2023 about the Hunter Biden investigations, remain pending. Faruqui asked why the department had “changed the entire history of how you charge cases” for this one case, according to CNBC, and UPI reported he said prosecutors could still pursue new charges through standard procedures.
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