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Lawyers for correspondents' dinner shooting suspect seek to disqualify Pirro, Blanche from case
Cole Allen, the suspected White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter, pleaded not guilty to all charges on Monday. Allen's lawyers are seeking to disqualify all U.S. attorneys in the Washington, D.C., office from the case, including the District of Columbia's Jeanine Pirro and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. CBS News' Nicole Sganga has more.
What happened
According to CBS News’s source item, Lawyers for correspondents’ dinner shooting suspect seek to disqualify Pirro, Blanche from case, Cole Allen, the suspected White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooter, pleaded not guilty to all charges on Monday. Allen’s lawyers are seeking to disqualify all U.S. attorneys in the Washington, D.C., office from the case, including the District of Columbia’s Jeanine Pirro and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. CBS News’ Nicole Sganga has more.
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