The Republican National Committee has hired two new lawyers to lead its legal efforts, a source familiar with the hires told NBC News.

The move comes as the organization focuses on voting and election-related concerns following the Trump campaign's effective take-over of its leadership.

Republican lawyer Charlie Spies will serve as RNC's chief counsel, the source said. Spies recently worked for Michigan Republican Rep. John James and previously served in Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign. He notably rejected the prevalent election denialism in the party while speaking on a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2021, drawing shouts from the crowd.

Christina Bobb, who has served on the Trump campaign’s legal team and is a prominent figure in pushing the GOP's unfounded claims of a stolen 2020 election, will serve as senior counsel for election integrity, the source said. Bobb confirmed she joined the RNC in a post to X.
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ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case has dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump, but others remain.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote Wednesday in an order that six of the charges in the indictment must be quashed, including three against Trump. But the order leave intact many other charges in the indictment and the judge wrote that prosecutors could seek a new indictment on the charges he dismissed.
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Jim Jordan blows up CNN's narrative that Trump isn't victim of a two-tiered justice system 🔥

“Hillary Clinton took a hammer to cell phones, took bleachbit to laptops and computers. You gotta be kidding me. The idea that there's not a double standard and the Justice Department isn't going after President Trump I think is laughable to disagree with that.” 🔥

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🚨COMER STATEMENT🚨

The Oversight Committee has called Hunter Biden’s bluff. For months he wanted a public hearing, but now that one has been offered alongside his business associates, he is refusing to come.

Next week’s hearing is moving forward and we fully expect Hunter to participate.👇

https://x.com/repjamescomer/status/1767940075269025892?s=46

UPDATE: McAfee’s order leaves Meadows facing only a RICO charge. Jim Durham, a lawyer for Meadows, declined to comment. The order quashed three of 13 counts against Giuliani.

“There simply was not enough detail to put the defendants on notice of what to defend against,” Giuliani’s attorney Allyn Stockton said, adding that the ruling “effectively removes nearly 25% of the charges” against his client.

McAfee wrote that prosecutors could seek a reindictment to supplement the six dismissed counts. Even if the statute of limitations has expired, the judge gave the state six months to resubmit the case to a grand jury. Prosecutors could also ask for permission to appeal the ruling. The case has yet to be scheduled for trial.
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Musk yeeted Lemon’s program. Bwaaaaahahahahahahahaha 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

BREAKING: Judicial Watch received 88 pages of ATF records from the DOJ in a lawsuit that show the CIA deployed personnel to Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.

Judicial Watch forced the release of the records through a June 5, 2023, lawsuit that was filed after the Justice Department failed to respond to an August 10, 2023, FOIA request for records and communications regarding shots being fired inside the U.S. Capitol, as well as requests for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Response Team assistance on January 6, 2021 (Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01608)).

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) records include a series of text messages under the heading “January 7 Intel Chain” in which two separate references to participation by the CIA are made. One states that “two CIA bomb techs” are assisting with “a pipe bomb scene on New Jersey and D ST SE.” Another references “several CIA dog teams on standby.”
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