Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, reporters Lawrence Hurley and Ryan J. Reilly break down what happened in the Supreme Court arguments over Donald Trump's claim of absolute immunity from prosecution for things that happened during his presidency. Plus, reporters Alexandra Marquez and Bridget Bowman...
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has long argued for absolute immunity in his federal election interference case, but his lawyer struck a different tone Thursday during arguments at the Supreme Court. With the justices appeared largely skeptical of the argument that the entire indictment against Trump should be dismissed, attorney D. John Sauer made some concessions. Sauer appeared to agree with special counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the prosecution, that there are some allegations...
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial on Tuesday warned that Trump's lawyer was "losing all credibility" in his arguments that the former president should not be punished for violating a gag order in the case. Justice Juan Merchan said he would not immediately rule on prosecutors' request
Democrats, including President Biden’s campaign, have been eager to promote reports that former president Donald Trump has apparently fallen asleep during his hush-money trial in New York.
April 25 (UPI) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments on former President Donald Trump‘s claims of presidential immunity from the election interference case against him. Much of the three-hour hearing focused on whether there is a distinction between official presidential acts and private conduct regarding Trump’s alleged attempts to overturn the […] The post Supreme Court weighs Trump’s immunity claims in election interference case first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
Former president is asking the Supreme Court to award him broad immunity from all criminal prosecution
Alina Habba, an attorney and spokesperson for former President Trump, said in a Tuesday interview that it was “unlikely” that Trump fell asleep in the courtroom during the first two days of jury selection for his hush money case in Manhattan, despite reports indicating otherwise. “If anything, he's probably brutally bored,” Habba told Fox News’s
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...
Former President Trump argued in a Supreme Court brief filed Monday that the Constitution’s framers would have supported his position that a president can’t face criminal prosecution for official acts.
Former President Donald Trump has been the focus of several legal stories across the country over the past day as he is also the center of two separate court proceedings. The former president is seeking to win another term in the White House in November, but while his name has been in the headlines, it […]
Prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial made an interesting case, saying the billionaire is actually a 'penny pincher' who paid Michael Cohen double to cover up his 'affairs.'
Many things about Donald Trump’s Supreme Court immunity appeal are incredible (in a bad way). There’s the alleged scheme that prompted the election subversion charges at issue. There’s the former president’s equally subversive bid to avoid those charges. There’s the high court’s leisurely scheduling of the appeal, which could function as its own form of immunity by preventing a pre-election trial. The list goes on. But when the justices take the bench Thursday morning for their last scheduled...