When the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately rules on Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity from prosecution, a third of those deciding the matter will be justices he appointed to their lifetime posts. Those three - Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch - posed questions from various angles as the nation's top judicial body heard arguments on Thursday in a case that provides a vital test of the power of the presidency. A key question, Gorsuch said, is "how to segregate private...
The third day of testimony in Trump’s hush-money trial is also taking place today.
The alleged incident had spawned a new nickname for the 77-year-old former president online: ‘Sleepy Don’
Donald Trump’s campaign has furiously denied that the former president fell asleep during the first day of his historic criminal trial in New York, blasting the claims as “100% fake news”.
Justices appeared unlikely to grant request for absolute immunity from criminal prosecution to former presidentKey takeaways from Trump immunity caseSign up for our free Trump on Trial newsletterThe US supreme court on Thursday expressed interest in returning Donald Trump’s criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election back to a lower court to decide whether certain parts of the indictment were “official acts” that were protected by presidential immunity.During oral arguments, the...
By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ALI SWENSON (Associated Press) McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A humanitarian organization in northeastern Mexico said it did not create flyers urging migrants to vote for President Joe Biden that were filmed at its shelter in a viral video that sparked a firestorm of conservative outrage this week. Accusations that Resource Center […]
Republican former congresswoman writes in New York Times that 2020 election interference case must go to trial before NovemberThe former congresswoman and co-chair of the House January 6 committee Liz Cheney is urging the US supreme court to rule quickly on Donald Trump’s claim that he has immunity from prosecution for acts he committed while president – so that his 2020 election interference trial can begin before the 2024 election this November.“If delay prevents this Trump case from being...
Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder explained the meaning behind the band's politically-themed song off their album "Dark Matter."The song titled "Wreckage" is purportedly about Donald Trump, Vedder told the Times, calling the former president and candidate "desperate to win" and only looking to avoid imprisonment."There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election," he told the British outlet. "And people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed that former President Donald Trump's "emissaries" asked him to serve as Trump's running mate."President Trump calls me an ultra-left radical. I'm soooo liberal that his emissaries asked me to be his VP. I respectfully declined the offer," Kennedy tweeted. — (@) Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign senior advisor, claimed that nobody from Trump's campaign has reached out to Kennedy about serving as...
A second US soldier has been caught smuggling illegal immigrants in two weeks in Texas. Cartels are luring service members with the promise of easy money.
President Joe Biden traveled to Florida to take on Donald Trump on his home turf - ridiculing comments the Republican made about abortion and the Bibles the ex-president is hawking.
It hadn’t fully occurred to me until opening statements yesterday that Donald Trump was going to stick with his claim that he never had sex with Stormy Daniels.