Federal judge Dabney Friedrich oversees cases in Washington, applying the law with an emphasis on procedure and precedence.
A federal hearing in Washington has postponed jury selection for Abu Agila Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi’s trial over the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing, amid newly discovered evidence. Defence teams are reviewing materials as prosecutors provide details; a status hearing is set for September. The case remains the first US trial linked to the attack.
A U.S. judge has ruled the public interest in previously recorded conversations outweighs Biden’s privacy concerns. The recordings and transcripts, obtained during probes into classified documents, have been released to a conservative staffer, with appeals ahead. The decision highlights ongoing scrutiny of Biden’s age and memory, and follows a string of related political and legal developments.
The Oversight Project has released roughly three hours of audio and 117 pages of heavily redacted transcripts of Joe Biden’s 2016–17 interviews with his ghostwriter for Promise Me, Dad. The recordings, obtained during Special Counsel Robert Hur’s documents probe, show Biden discussing retained notes and at times struggling with dates and details; Republicans say the tapes prove decline, Biden calls the release political.