Follow along with us below as we cover the first criminal trial of a former U.S. President.
Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. A Manhattan jury was assembled this week for the first criminal trial against a former U.S. president. The selection process in People v. Donald Trump started off slow, then picked up quickly, then went backward somehow, but ultimately wrapped up with the 12 regular jurors picked Thursday and the alternates finalized Friday. Opening statements await. “We have our jury,” Judge Juan Merchan said at the end of a dramatic Thursday. By then, there...
Yesterday, more than half of the first batch of 96 prospects were excused after signaling they could not be impartial.
The witnesses include a porn actress, a former tabloid publisher and Trump’s former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen.
Conventional political wisdom suggests the first criminal trial of Donald Trump, which got underway in Manhattan last week, will have a minimal effect on the 2024 election. Many political observers see the allegations — covering up hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election — as relatively trifling, and certainly not comparable to the other three indictments Trump faces in Florida, Georgia and Washington, D.C. Even a guilty verdict in the trial would “be unlikely to have a big influence come...
By Lauren del Valle, Annette Choi and Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The second day of Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial concluded Tuesday with the selection of seven jurors. A panel of 12 New Yorkers and likely six alternates will ultimately be chosen. Jury selection for the trial will resume on Thursday. Here’s what we know about the
By Lauren del Valle, Annette Choi and Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The second day of Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial concluded Tuesday with the selection of seven jurors. A panel of 12 New Yorkers and likely six alternates will ultimately be chosen. Jury selection for the trial will resume on Thursday. Here’s what we know about the
By AAMER MADHANI (The Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that he is willing to debate his presumptive Republican opponent, Donald Trump, later this fall – his most definitive comment yet on the issue. The comment came during an interview with the Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern, who asked […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial shifts to opening statements Monday, followed by the start of witness testimony. A jury of seven men and five women, plus six alternates, was picked last week. The trial centers on allegations the former president falsified his company’s internal records to obscure the true nature […]
Donald Trump has arrived at the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan for the second day of his criminal trial over falsifying business records connected to hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. On Monday, Merchan ruled on several motions from each side and set a hearing date of April 23 for the issue of whether Trump is in violation of his gag order. Merchan kept up a brisk pace in the afternoon, bringing in the first 96 potential jurors before dismissing more than...
Late-night talk show hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert tackled Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial, which kicked off on Monday. Kimmel joked that the “trial is expected to last six weeks or until the courtroom sketch artist runs out of orange—whichever comes first.” “The official name of the trial is 'The People of the State of New York vs. Donald Trump.' The People of the State of New York. That's us!” Colbert enthused, before quieting the applauding audience. “I know you're excited,...
NEW YORK >> The first seven jurors for Donald Trump’s hush money trial were seated Tuesday after lawyers grilled the jury pool about their social media posts, political views and personal lives to decide who can sit in fair judgment of the former president.