Thursday’s argument in Trump v. United States was a disaster for Special Counsel Jack Smith, and for anyone who believes that the president of the United States should be subject to prosecution if they commit a crime. At least five of the Court’s Republicans seemed eager to, at the very least, permit Trump to delay his federal criminal trial for attempting to steal the 2020 election until after this November’s election. And the one GOP appointee who seemed to hedge the most, Chief Justice John...
Opinion by Joey Jackson, CNN (CNN) — It was a little more than a year ago, on April 3, 2023, that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg announced a 34-count criminal indictment against former President Donald J. Trump. Now the trial against Trump is set to begin, with opening statements scheduled to get underway Monday
Donald Trump lost it with his lawyers once the group returned from the lunch recess, according to a report.The lawyers were fighting over Trump's team's failure to produce documents under New York's reciprocal discovery laws. "Justice [Juan] Merchan tells Trump’s attorneys they have 24 hours to do so, or such evidence will be precluded from use," reported Law360's Stewart Bishop. "Trump counsel Todd Blanche complains, says that’s not enough time, what with jury selection and all."That is the...
The lawyers tasked with swaying a jury in Donald Trump's favor during the second week of the historic criminal hush money trial in New York City are going down a "hard road." That's according to former federal prosecutor Harry Litman. He believes the defense is hamstrung because the 45th president won't let his reputation be tarnished. Even as sordid details of his conduct are slowly fogging the air in the trial that is expected to last six to eight weeks before a jury deliberates.ALSO...
Former President Donald Trump won against New York Attorney General Letitia James in court on Monday regarding a question surrounding the $175 million bond Trump posted in the civil fraud case.
Former President Trump’s attorney and New York prosecutors have settled their differences over his bond in the state’s civil fraud case against the former president and his business. The deal
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin Monday revealed one major reason that Donald Trump's lawyers are fighting so hard to keep certain tweets he sent as president out of his criminal hush money trial.Rubin stood outside the Manhattan court where Trump stands accused of covering up money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels through his then-attorney Michael Cohen. She discussed one of many legal battles the former president will face in the weeks ahead. "Trump himself has tweeted that he repaid...
Jed Handelsman Shugerman, a law professor at Boston University, thinks Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of Donald Trump is a "historic mistake."Shugerman made that conclusion after witnessing opening arguments on Monday in which prosecutors alleged Trump "orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election." In short, prosecutors claim Trump falsified business records to interfere in the 2016 election.The problems with their thesis, Shugerman wrote in...
Donald Trump lost a bid Thursday to pause a string of lawsuits accusing him of inciting the U.S. Capitol attack, while the former president fights his 2020 election interference criminal case in Washington. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington denied defense lawyers’ request to put the civil cases seeking to hold Trump responsible for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2024 “We’re going to win in the biggest landslide in history, because we’re the ones who are fighting to save our democracy and Joe Biden is a demented tyrant,” former President Donald Trump said at a campaign rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania on Saturday. Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes are the most […]
Donald Trump lost a bid Thursday to pause a string of lawsuits accusing him of inciting the U.S. Capitol attack, while the former president fights his 2020 election interference criminal case in Washington. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington denied defense lawyers' request to put the civil cases seeking to hold Trump
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington denied defense lawyers’ request to put the civil cases seeking to hold Trump responsible for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on hold while the criminal case accusing him of conspiring to overturn his election defeat to President Joe Biden plays out.