Ashley Oliver is a Justice Department reporter for the Washington Examiner. She previously covered Congress and campaigns for Breitbart News. Originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia, she graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in classics and philosophy before spending six years in Massachusetts working in the real estate industry.
Former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge to excise references to violence during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot from an indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith in Washington related to the 2020 election.
In the indictment, Smith at one point described, for example, how a"large and angry crowd — including many individuals whom had deceived into believing the Vice President could and might change the election results — violently attacked the Capitol and halted the proceeding." Such language, Trump's attorneys argued, had no relevance to Trump's charges and related"to a high-profile issue on which the public has high awareness and strong opinions." They said it therefore unfairly created prejudice against Trump in the case.
Smith's indictment focused heavily on the accusation that Trump illegally worked to arrange alternate electors in battleground states to vote for Trump in the election based on unproven claims of widespread election fraud.
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