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Cole Allen's lawyers seek to disqualify D.C. attorneys from correspondents' dinner shooting case
The lawyers for the man accused of attacking the White House Correspondents' Dinner are seeking to disqualify top prosecutor Jeanine Pirro, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and other U.S. attorneys in the Washington, D.C. office from the case. CBS News' Jake Rosen has more.
What happened
According to CBS News’s source item, Cole Allen’s lawyers seek to disqualify D.C. attorneys from correspondents’ dinner shooting case, The lawyers for the man accused of attacking the White House Correspondents’ Dinner are seeking to disqualify top prosecutor Jeanine Pirro, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and other U.S. attorneys in the Washington, D.C. office from the case. CBS News’ Jake Rosen has more.
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