Judges deny Trump's bid to have two cases tossed

WASHINGTON — Former US president Donald Trump suffered a pair of legal setbacks on Thursday, as judges spurned his calls to dismiss criminal charges over his efforts to overturn the 2020 loss in Georgia and his keeping of classified records after leaving office.

Separately, one of the Republican presidential candidate's allies, former Justice Department official attorney Jeffrey Clark, faced the risk of disbarment after a Washington panel found he violated some attorney ethics rules in his attempts to enlist the agency to help overturn Trump's loss.

Those cases represent just some of the legal entanglements facing Trump, who has been criminally charged in four cases as he challenges President Joe Biden in the Nov 5 election, with the first-ever trial of a sitting of former US president due to get underway in New York on April 15.