Donald Trump will be allowed to skip court in May for Barron Trump’s high school graduation, a judge ruled on Tuesday, April 30, after the former president petitioned the judge to take a leave of absence for the occasion.
On the first day of his criminal fraud trial in New York, former President Donald Trump requested that the judge not hold court proceedings on May 17 -- the day of his youngest son's high school graduation. The judge did not rule on the request, saying he preferred to wait to see how the trial unfolds.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan gave former President Donald Trump an update on attending his son, Barron's graduation.On Tuesday, Newsweek's Katherine Fung, who is inside the New York courthouse where Trump's criminal hush-money trial is taking place, reported that Merchan is allowing the former president to attend his son's graduation."Trump will be allowed to attend Barron's graduation on May 17, Merchan rules. He says that with the trial moving per schedule, it will 'not be a...
Donald Trump has allegedly violated the gag order in his New York criminal trial more than a dozen times. Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti shares how the judge may be delaying any penalties for Trump to leave the threat "hanging over" his lawyers so they rein in their client.
Juan Merchan reserves judgment on prosecutors' request for maximum fine but
University of Pennsylvania law professor Kate Shaw said the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to create a presidential immunity doctrine just to protect former President Donald Trump. Shaw spoke out on ABC's This Week on Sunday following arguments before the high court in Trump's election interference case. ABC host George Stephanopoulos observed that the court "is ready to carve out some immunity for presidents." "So I'm a constitutional law professor," Shaw explained. "I have never...
President Biden is scrambling to finish a slew of federal regulations by the end of April, fearing that a second Trump presidency will reverse his legacy.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was subjected to an online roasting Monday night after former President Donald Trump announced his former election year foe had pledged him "enthusiastic support." Among the naysayers was MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown, who argued DeSantis' "tightening embrace of Trump" showed he was not "clinging to any sort of principle" but expressing "a need to be in proximity to power." Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has been busy shoring up support for his run for...
The Biden administration is bolstering health care protections against discrimination for gay and transgender people, reversing a Trump administration rule that gutted the protections. In a wide-ranging final rule released Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) strengthened the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) rules that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, including on
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to restore the policy of net neutrality, a set of rules that requires broadband internet providers to treat all internet traffic more or less equally. The move is a continuation of a battle that has raged for 20 years, with competing visions about what an open and efficient internet should look like. The vote was 3-2, with the FCC’s Democratic majority in favor and the Republican minority opposed. The vote largely restores a policy that was...
Alina Habba, lawyer for ex-President Donald Trump, denounced the U.S. justice system, specifically calling out judges presiding over the various cases against her boss."I have never been treated the way I'm treated when I walk into court and I say I represent President Trump," Habba, currently Trump's legal spokesperson for his criminal hush-money trial in New York City, told Newsweek in a phone interview on Tuesday night.Habba earlier on Tuesday during an interview with Newsmax host Carl Higbie...
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.