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Trump federal election interference case sent back to trial court after SCOTUS ruling

Following the Supreme Court’s historic decision on former President Trump’s immunity claim in the federal election interference case, the matter has been officially returned for a trial. This is standard court procedure. A month after the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision, the case has been formally remanded to the appeals court, which will then return it to Judge Tanya Chutkan. “ORDERED, on the court’s own motion, that this case be remanded to the District Court for further proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court’s opinion,” the Aug. 2 filing reads. JUSTICE ALITO QUESTIONS WHETHER PRESIDENTS WILL HAVE TO FEAR ‘BITTER POLITICAL OPPONENT’ THROWING THEM IN JAIL In the coming days, Judge Chutkan is expected to establish a schedule for the parties to discuss the application of the SCOTUS ruling in the ongoing prosecution. Open court hearings are anticipated, after which the judge will determine the extent to which the Special Counsel’s evidence can be used in the trial. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States that a former president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, but not for unofficial acts. SCOTUS WEIGHS MONUMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL FIGHT OVER TRUMP IMMUNITY CLAIM In a 6-3 decision, the Court sent the matter back down to a lower court, as the justices did not apply the ruling to whether or not former President Trump is immune from prosecution regarding actions related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The ruling came shortly after a New York jury found Trump guilty on all counts of falsifying business records in the first degree stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation.  Special Counsel Jack Smith charged the former president with conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights. Those charges stemmed from Smith’s investigation into whether Trump was involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and any alleged interference in the 2020 election result. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges last summer. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.  This is a developing story. Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report. 

Ex-Obama campaign manager joins Harris team; VP keeps rest of Biden’s squad intact

The former campaign manager for former President Obama, David Plouffe, has joined Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, and the newly minted Democratic nominee has retained the entire leadership team of President Biden’s re-election effort.  Harris on Friday secured the Democratic presidential nomination, weeks before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago begins on Aug. 19.  The vice president’s campaign, now in full swing, will include the members of President Biden’s suspended re-election campaign and a number of experienced Democratic operatives who will aid in her effort to beat former President Trump in November.  Jen O’Malley Dillon, who worked as Biden’s campaign chair, has agreed to stay in the top role, reporting directly to Harris. Dillon is expected to run the campaign from the original Biden campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware. IT’S OFFICIAL: VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS GOES OVER THE TOP AND CLINCHES DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION Julie Chávez Rodriguez will remain campaign manager, with Rob Flaherty continuing his role as deputy campaign manager. Quentin Fulks will continue his role as principal deputy campaign manager, and Michael Tyler is continuing his role as communications director.  Harris’ campaign has also brought on Liz Allen, who will serve as chief of staff for Harris’ yet-to-be-named running mate, and Megan Rooney as head speechwriter.  HARRIS IS ‘BIDEN’S CO-PILOT’ ON ‘BIDENOMICS’ POLICIES THAT PROMPTED WOEFUL JOBS NUMBERS: TRUMP CAMP Brian Fallon, who was previously the director of public affairs for Obama’s Justice Department, a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 national press secretary, will also join the Harris campaign as a senior adviser for communications.  Plouffe, Obama’s former campaign manager, will serve as the senior adviser on the “Path to 270” and the strategy moving forward. Plouffe will suspend his consulting work for TikTok and his podcast while advising the campaign, according to a source.  Jen Palmieri, who ran communications for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and served as Obama’s White House communications director, will also join the Harris campaign as an adviser for second gentleman Doug Emhoff.  BIDEN TOP ADVISER ANITA DUNN LEAVES WHITE HOUSE FOR SUPER PAC SUPPORTING HARRIS Other senior-level consultants joining the team include Mitch Stewart, who will serve as a senior adviser for battleground states, and Terrance Woodbury, who will watch polling.  The top consultants are not expected to work out of Wilmington.  David Binder is also expected to take a leading role in polling and research with the existing team.  The Harris campaign has also added a new paid media strategy and will continue its work with Blue Sky, Conexion and Truxton and expects to work with GMMB. Fulks is expected to oversee that program.  Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge came onboard as a campaign co-chair and will expand her role to include outreach and strategy, while her co-chair, Rep. Cedric Richmond, will continue his work as a longtime adviser to Harris.  Sources close to the campaign said the team is in place to “scale and manage what is coming” in terms of the intensity of the volume and work that comes with a general election season.  Sources said the moves also reflect an “all-hands-on-deck” approach to the final stretch before the November election. They said the Democratic Party is “united.”  The built-out team was named after Harris secured the nomination Friday.  “I am so proud to confirm that Vice President Harris has earned more than a majority of votes from all convention delegates and will be the nominee of the Democratic Party following the close of voting on Monday,” DNC Chair Jaime Harrison said in a statement. Harris, on a call Friday with supporters, said, “I am honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States.” She emphasized that “the tireless work of our delegates, our state leaders and staff has been pivotal in making this moment possible.” The news came amid a virtual roll call for the nomination, which the DNC kicked off Thursday and lasts through Monday. And while the nomination of Harris was never in doubt, the vice president was the only candidate to qualify for the presidential nomination roll call. It marks a historic milestone in the nation’s history with Harris becoming the first woman of color to lead a major political party’s national ticket. Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report. 

Hunter Biden’s sentencing date in gun case set for week after election

First son Hunter Biden will be sentenced on Nov. 13, the week after the general election, after he was found guilty on charges in the criminal case focused on his purchase of a handgun in 2018. Judge Maryellen Noreika, in a court order Friday, set the sentencing date for Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 10:00 a.m. at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware. President Biden’s son will learn his fate 8 days after the 2020 presidential election.  Hunter Biden was found guilty in June of making a false statement in the purchase of a gun, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federally licensed gun dealer, and possession of a gun by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance. He faces a total maximum prison time of 25 years for the three charges. Each count also carries a maximum fine of $250,000 and three years of supervised release. Hunter Biden, however, is a first-time offender, making it unlikely he will face maximum penalties. JURY LIKELY CONSIDERED HUNTER BIDEN’S OWN WORDS IN MEMOIR AS ‘POWERFUL’ EVIDENCE TO CONVICT: EXPERTS “I am more grateful today for the love and support I experienced this last week from Melissa, my family, my friends, and my community than I am disappointed by the outcome. Recovery is possible by the grace of God, and I am blessed to experience that gift one day at a time,” Hunter Biden said in a statement following the verdict.  Hunter Biden’s trial last month lasted about six and a half days and included emotional testimony from members of his family, including daughter Naomi Biden, ex-wife Kathleen Buhle and sister-in-law-turned-girlfriend Hallie Biden. HUNTER BIDEN ‘DISAPPOINTED’ BY GUILTY VERDICT, TRUMP CAMPAIGN CALLS GUN TRIAL A ‘DISTRACTION’ Prosecutors worked to prove that Hunter Biden lied on a federal firearm form, known as ATF Form 4473, in October 2018 when he ticked a box labeled “No” when asked if he is an unlawful user of a firearm or addicted to controlled substances. Hunter Biden purchased the gun from a store called StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply in Wilmington. Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, whose office prosecuted the case, addressed the media after the verdict and said the trial revolved around Hunter Biden’s “illegal choices,” not just the first son’s drug addiction. ‘LIKE A SON’: FORMER TOP BIDEN ADVISER WITH DEEP BUSINESS TIES TO CHINA SPOTTED INSIDE HUNTER BIDEN GUN TRIAL  “Ultimately, this case was not just about addiction, a disease that haunts families across the United States, including Hunter Biden’s family. This case was about the illegal choices the defendant made while in the throes of addiction. His choice to lie on a government form when he bought a gun and the choice to then possess that gun, it was these choices and the combination of guns and drugs that made his conduct dangerous,” Weiss said. Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton and Brooke Singman and Fox News’ Bill Mears contributed to this report. 

Trump-aligned group targets Harris on key issue haunting her vice presidency: ‘Fails that test’

EXCLUSIVE: A deep-pocketed outside political committee that supports former President Trump’s White House campaign is taking aim at Vice President Kamala Harris over the issue of border security. “America needs a commander-in-chief who’s tough on illegal immigration. Kamala Harris fails that test,” National Border Patrol Council vice president Art Del Cueto charges in a new ad from the Preserve America super PAC. The spot, shared first with Fox News Digital on Friday, is the latest by either the Trump campaign or aligned super PACs that target Harris for being weak on border security, which many Republicans see as the vice president’s political Achilles’ heel. HARRIS LEANS IN ON BORDER SECURITY AND TRUMP RELISHES THE FIGHT Trump and his allies have repeatedly criticized Harris for nearly two weeks — since she replaced President Biden at the top of the Democrats’ national ticket — over the surge of migrants across the nation’s southern border during the Biden administration. Harris was tasked by Biden in 2021 with leading the diplomatic outreach to tackle the “root causes” of migration in Central American countries. It led to her being dubbed the “border czar” both by the media and Republican opponents, although the White House has rejected that description. 2024 AD WARS: TRUMP, HARRIS RACE TO DEFINE VICE PRESIDENT Del Cueto — who has endorsed the former president and who joined Trump running mate Sen. J.D. Vance at a campaign event Thursday along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona — calls Harris “Biden’s border czar” in the ad, which was filmed along the southern border. “She supported sanctuary cities and taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants. And she created the worst border crisis in American history. Kamala Harris is dangerous,” he argued.  The spot also includes a Harris interview on “The View” from August 2019 — when she was running unsucessfully for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — in which she said, “We are not going to treat people who are undocumented cross the border as criminals. That is correct.” The ad is the second straight one from Preserve America to criticize Harris over border security. The group tells Fox News that it is spending at least $10 million to run the spots from the Olympics through Labor Day as part of an ad blitz in the key battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Preserve America was set up during Trump’s unsuccessful 2020 re-election bid and was re-launched this spring to help the former president try to win back the White House in 2024. REPUBLICAN MEGA DONOR BANKROLLING TRUMP-ALIGNED GROUP Multi-billionaire Miriam Adelson, the controlling shareholder of the Las Vegas Sands gambling empire, is helping to bankroll the super PAC’s efforts, a source with knowledge of her plans confirmed to Fox News a couple of months ago. Adelson and her late husband, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, shelled out roughly $90 million to Preserve America four years ago. Sources indicated that the super PAC plans to increase its expenditures from what it spent in 2020 on behalf of Trump. Harris has been pushing back on the border security attacks as she leans in on the issue. “In this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his,” Harris said at a rally in Atlanta on Tuesday before highlighting her border security efforts as California attorney general. The vice president argued that Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, “has been talking a big game about securing our border, but he does not walk the walk.” She pointed to a border security bill with some bipartisan support that had been making its way through Congress earlier this year before Republicans turned against the measure after prompting from Trump. “It was all set to pass, but at the last minute Trump directed his allies in the Senate to vote it down,” Harris said.  She charged that the former president “tanked the bipartisan deal because he thought it would help him win an election” and pledged that “as the president, I will bring back the border security bill that Donald Trump killed.” The Trump campaign quickly took to social media to respond to the comments by the vice president at her rally. “Kamala is actually *BRAGGING* about her record on immigration. HERE ARE THE FACTS: As Border Czar, Kamala ferried 15+ million illegals directly into our communities. She thinks illegal immigration “is NOT a crime.” She wants to abolish ICE. She thinks you’re stupid,” the Trump campaign claimed. Hours earlier, the Trump campaign — in its first major ad blitz of the general election — charged that Harris had “failed us” in securing the border. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

‘Moderate’ Harris VP contender sought left-wing ‘mercenaries’ to thwart rust belt energy industry

FIRST ON FOX: Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is rumored to be on the short list of vice-presidential candidates for presumptive nominee Kamala Harris, applied as state attorney general to be part of a Michael Bloomberg-sponsored program to appoint special climate prosecutors to go after the energy industry in his state. During the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal reported that climate activists began “placing employees in Attorneys General offices in dubious private-public condominiums” highlighted a “remarkable arrangement” by the NYU Law School’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center. The effort was launched in 2017 as part of a $6 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to “advance a liberal climate and energy agenda.” The program, which is legal, has placed Bloomberg-funded oil and gas attorneys in several jurisdictions, including in Connecticut, Illinois, New Mexico, and Washington, D.C., where they focus on climate issues and litigating against oil and gas companies. GOP SENATE CANDIDATE IN PA TOURS NATURAL GAS PLANT AS VP HARRIS PIVOTS FROM ANTI-FRACKING COMMENTS “The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at NYU Law studies and supports the work of state attorneys general in defending, enforcing, and promoting strong laws and policies in the areas of climate, environmental justice, environmental protection, and clean energy,” the program’s website states. In his 2018 application for the program, Shapiro’s office said that Pennsylvania was a “state whose own energy production remains largely based on the burning of coal. This ‘Pennsylvania perspective’ provides a unique and powerful platform from which to create progressive environmental legal and policy change – from within.” “Put otherwise, while many states can and do fight for progressive environmental legal change, when that fighter is a coal-burning, Marcellus Shale gas-extracting, ozone-suffering state where environmental action may not always be politically palatable, the impact of an environmental leader like Attorney General Josh Shapiro is simply more powerful,” his office continued. VP HARRIS FACES BACKLASH IN CRUCIAL SWING STATE AFTER HER ‘DISASTROUS’ ANTI-FRACKING POSITION RESURFACES “State attorneys general should describe the particular scope of needs within their offices related to the advancement and defense of progressive clean energy, climate change, and environmental matters,” the prompt for the application states. “Relevant details include the extent to which funding or other capacity constraints have limited the ability to work on these issues or how additional dedicated support could help advance the work of the state attorney general on behalf of his or her constituents.” “Priority consideration will be given to state attorneys general who demonstrate a commitment to and acute need for additional support on clean energy, climate change, and environmental issues of regional or national importance, such as those matters that cross jurisdictional boundaries or raise legal questions or conflicts that have nationwide applicability.” Shapiro’s office wrote that he needs more “economic resources” to continue being a leader of “progressive” climate efforts. “Being a leader of these efforts, however, requires economic resources. Perhaps because of its unique position, previous Pennsylvania attorneys general did not focus on environmental protection efforts,” Shapiro wrote.  “Therefore, the environmental section Attorney General Shapiro inherited was notably smaller than those found in attorney general offices of other environmental leaders. As such, granting Pennsylvania’s application will be particularly significant. It will allow the PA OAG not just to join other states in lawsuits challenging the Trump Administration’s efforts to weaken environmental regulations, but to hire one or more SAAGs so it can be more proactive across-the-board and serve as the lead plaintiff in future such actions.” In a statement to Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for the State Impact Center confirmed that Shapiro had applied and been denied but said the group does “not have a record of why the application did not move forward.” “To clarify how the State Impact Center’s SAAG program works: it adds capacity for attorneys general, providing them with additional resources to be deployed at their discretion,” the spokesperson said. “Attorneys general direct the work of the SAAGs. The SAAG’s sole duty of loyalty is to the office in which they work.” BILLIONAIRE OIL CEO SAYS DEMOCRATS ARE ‘STARTING TO RECOGNIZE’ THE GREEN ENERGY PUSH IS ‘ALL A FALLACY’ Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Guy Reschenthaler told Fox News Digital that Shapiro recruiting a “Bloomberg-funded, unaccountable prosecutor to specifically target energy producers and job creators in Pennsylvania is despicable.” “Pennsylvania ranks second in natural gas production, third in coal production, and third in electricity production. It is an understatement to say that our commonwealth powers the nation. But Democrats here at home led by Governor Josh Shapiro and Vice President Harris relentlessly attack our energy industry and the 130,000 good-paying, union jobs it supports. Vice President Harris even said, ‘There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” Reschenthaler continued, “Our communities depend on making America energy independent again and must reject any attempts by far-left influences to destroy their livelihoods with a Green New Deal agenda.” The Wall Street Journal wrote that “ethical problems” with SAAGs should be obvious.” “This is a fundamental question of ethics and who’s running our government,” West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, one of a handful of Republican attorneys general who have raised concerns about the Bloomberg-funded program, said in 2020. “When you actually get to place someone in under a specific agenda and then pay them, and they’re within the office, that starts to call into question whether there are multiple masters within an attorney general office, and that starts to really stink.” Shapiro, who is reported to have recently met with VP Harris as her search for a vice president comes to a close, has been referred to as a “moderate” and “practical” since becoming governor and was referred to in Politico as having “struck a middle” ground on the issue that directly affects hundreds of thousands of energy workers in the commonwealth, but his past rhetoric could come back to haunt him. Bloomberg has made his position on climate change clear in many statements over the years, including calling for the elimination of all coal-fired

BSF DG Nitin Agarwal, special DG Yogesh Khurania’s tenure cut short; repatriated to state cadres

Agrawal had taken charge as the Border Security Force chief in June last year. Khurania, as the special DG (West), was heading the formation of the force along the Pakistan border.

DNA TV Show: 16 arrested for harassing woman amid rain in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar area

In today’s DNA, Anant Tyagi discusses on woman on a bike harassed by men in Lucknow.

It’s official: Vice President Kamala Harris goes over the top and clinches Democratic presidential nomination

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday officially clinched her party’s 2024 presidential nomination, and the Democratic National Committee announced that the vice president had secured the votes of a majority of pledged delegates to the Democrats’ upcoming national convention. “I am so proud to confirm that Vice President Harris has earned more than a majority of votes from all convention delegates and will be the nominee of the Democratic Party following the close of voting on Monday,” DNC chair Jaime Harrison said in a statement. And Harris, on a call Friday with supporters, said that “I am honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States.” She emphasized that “the tireless work of our delegates, our state leaders and staff has been pivotal in making this moment possible.” 2024 CASH DASH: HARRIS LAPS TRUMP IN LATEST FUNDRAISING FIGURES The news came amid a virtual roll call for the nomination that the DNC kicked off on Thursday, which lasts through Monday. And while the nomination of Harris was never in doubt, the vice president was the only candidate to qualify for the presidential nomination roll call – it marks an historic milestone in the nation’s history, as Harris becomes the first woman of color to lead a major political party’s national ticket. 1 OF THESE 5 DEMOCRATS COULD BE HARRIS’ RUNNING MATE While the official nomination vote by the delegates is being held remotely, the DNC says a ceremonial roll call will be held at the Democratic National Convention, which kicks off on Aug. 19 in Chicago. Harris’ clinching of the nomination comes less than two weeks after President Biden’s blockbuster announcement that he was ending his 2024 re-election campaign against former President Trump, the GOP’s nominee. Biden’s stunning news came amid mounting pressure from within the Democratic Party for him to drop out after a disastrous performance in last month’s first presidential debate with Trump. The 81-year-old Biden’s halting and stumbling delivery fueled questions about his physical and mental abilities to serve another four years in the White House. But Biden’s immediate backing of Harris ignited a surge of endorsements for the vice president by Democratic governors, senators, House members and other party leaders. Within 36 hours, Harris announced that she had locked up her party’s nomination by landing the verbal backing of a majority of the nearly 4,000 convention delegates. With Harris’ nomination now cleared of any doubt, speculation has soared in the past week and a half over whom the vice president will choose as her running mate. The Harris campaign announced that the vice president and her soon-to-be-named running mate will embark on a swing through all seven key battleground states starting Tuesday in Pennsylvania. After the presidential nomination virtual roll call concludes at 6 p.m. ET on Monday, DNC rules will allow for Harris to place the name of her running mate into nomination.  According to the DNC, the convention chair would then declare that candidate to be the party’s vice presidential nominee. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Harris is ‘Biden’s co-pilot’ on ‘Bidenomics’ policies that prompted woeful jobs numbers: Trump camp

The Trump campaign is calling Vice President Kamala Harris President Biden’s “co-pilot” in the “Bidenomics” that led to the poor July jobs numbers, which brought the unemployment rate in the U.S. to the highest level in nearly three years.  The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday reported that employers added 114,000 jobs in July, missing the 175,000 gain forecast by LSEG economists. The unemployment rate also unexpectedly inched higher to 4.3% against expectations that it would hold steady at 4.1%.  US JOB GROWTH SLOWS TO 114K IN JULY WHILE UNEMPLOYMENT UNEXPECTEDLY JUMPS It marked the highest level for the jobless rate since October 2021. “Kamala Harris has proudly and repeatedly celebrated her role as Joe Biden’s co-pilot on ‘Bidenomics,’” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday. “She cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate for spending that put inflation on steroids, and despite the evidence that America’s working families are hurting, she tells us these failed plans are working.”  Leavitt added: “The basic necessities of food, gas and housing are less affordable, unemployment is rising, and Kamala doesn’t seem to care.” Friday’s report adds to mounting evidence that the economy is weakening in the face of ongoing inflation and high interest rates. Stock futures plunged as the report reignited fears of an impending recession, with Dow futures shedding more than 500 points.  The weaker-than-expected data also raised questions about whether the Federal Reserve waited too long to cut interest rates. Policymakers voted at the conclusion of their two-day meeting on Wednesday to hold rates steady at a 23-year high, but signaled that they could start loosening policy as soon as September.  ONE OF THESE FIVE DEMOCRATS COULD BE HARRIS’ RUNNING MATE Health care continued to lead the way in job creation, onboarding 55,000 new workers in July. Other sectors showing notable growth included construction (25,000), the government (17,000) and transportation and warehousing (14,000).  However, there were some notable job losses last month. Information employment declined by 20,000, while financial activities shed 4,000 employees. The report also showed modest revisions. Job gains for June were revised down by a total of 27,000 jobs to 179,000, the government said, while May’s gain also came in slightly lower at 216,000 jobs. But Harris’ campaign is blaming former President Donald Trump for the latest negative jobs report—nearly a full term after he left office.  “Donald Trump failed Americans as president, costing our economy millions of jobs, and bringing us to the brink of recession,” Harris for President spokesperson James Singer said in a statement. “Now, he’s promising even more damage with a Project 2025 agenda that will decimate the middle class and increase taxes on working families, while ripping away health care, raising prescription drug costs, and cutting Social Security and Medicare – all while making his billionaire donors richer.”  Singer added: “We’ve made significant progress, but Vice President Harris knows there’s more work to do to lower costs for families.”  Fox Business’ Megan Henney contributed to this report. 

Voting Rights Act doesn’t protect coalitions of racial or ethnic groups challenging political maps, appeals court rules

In a lawsuit challenging redistricting in Galveston County, the 5th Circuit said the protections afforded to a single racial group don’t apply to multiple groups who collectively claim voting rights violations.