After the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump last month—in which the bullet missed achieving lethality by less than an inch—Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was called on the carpet by the House Oversight Committee. On July 22, she took full responsibility for the failure to protect Trump, whose ear was nicked by the bullet. In a spasm of self-contradiction, however, she then declared that she would stay on the job “and be responsible to the agency, to this committee, to the former president and to the American public.”

The return of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 prosecution to District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan has ignited a flurry of activity in the once-dormant case, reviving a high stakes court battle after a series of legal wins for the former president.

The case is back in Chutkan’s hands after the Supreme Court formally sent the case back to the lower courts after handing Trump a victory in determining that as a former president he maintains broad immunity from criminal prosecution. 

President Joe Biden plans to focus on Supreme Court reform in his final months in office, he announced in a televised address on Wednesday night.

On Sunday, Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement as the Democratic nominee in November's election.

FBI director Christopher Wray revealed several new details about the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump during a Wednesday hearing, including the fact that the would-be assassin researched the Oswald-Kennedy assassination ahead of his attempt on Trump’s life.

The top House leaders from both parties are setting up a bipartisan task force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the stunning security failures that allowed it to happen. 

July 19 (Reuters) - Over its past two terms, the U.S. Supreme Court has put an end to five high-profile and politically sensitive cases emerging from one particular federal appeals court on the same basis, declaring that the litigation should not have been allowed in the first place.

In all five cases - involving abortion rights, online free speech, federal student loans, immigration and Native American child welfare - the justices overturned rulings by the staunchly conservative New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals or judges within that circuit.

The Justice Department dropped a felony obstruction charge against five Proud Boys, who are facing a criminal trial in September over their actions at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Biden administration’s decision to drop the charge comes after the Supreme Court ruled that federal prosecutors can’t use an obstruction statute originally aimed at the destruction of evidence to nab Jan. 6 rioters who disrupted Congress’ certification of the 2020 election results.

Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to one charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States for its role in two fatal 737 Max crashes, the Justice Department said in a court filing Sunday evening.

It represents yet another black eye for the company after a series of embarrassing safety blunders, but the agreement avoids what could have been more serious consequences.