New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan could fine former President Donald Trump up to $11,000 for violating a gag order that his legal team argues prevents him from defending himself publicly in a case where a Democrat district attorney is seeking to put him in jail.
Former President Donald Trump has boxed himself into a serious disadvantage in his Manhattan criminal trial with his constant violations of Judge Juan Merchan's orders, former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday.This comes after Trump spoke about the first witness at trial, his former ally and National Enquirer boss David Pecker, who described how he orchestrated "catch and kill" schemes to protect Trump during the 2016 election, similar to the purpose of his...
Though most Americans expect our judges to be neutral arbiters of the law, Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the New York trial against President Trump, is anything but.
It took four days to seat 12 jurors and six alternates to serve on the historic first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. But if New York Judge Juan Merchan decides it necessary to sequester them to protect them and also limit the exposure to the rabid interest on the hush money case — it could be a very involved process. "The logistics of sequestering a jury are really daunting and the expense is high and jurors don't like it, necessarily," retired federal judge John Jones III said...
By KAREN MATTHEWS (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial on Thursday after a jury awarded $83.3 million in damages to a longtime magazine columnist who sued the former president for defamation for calling her claim that he had sexually assaulted her […]
Criminal defense attorney Stacey Schneider says that former President Donald Trump was “rattled” following a Sandoval hearing in the New York hush money trial where he heard a recounting of his criminal history.
Former Trump White House attorney Jim Schultz says that Trump's post about
“THIS SCAM ‘RUSHED’ TRIAL IS BEING PRESIDED OVER BY POSSIBLY THE MOST CONFLICTED JUDGE IN JUDICIAL HISTORY,” former President Donald J. Trump declared with characteristic understatement via Read More
Former President Donald Trump's comments about his longtime ally and former National Enquirer head David Pecker are the most compelling case for witness intimidation, legal expert Lisa Rubin told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday's edition of "The ReidOut."Pecker, who helped Trump in a "catch and kill" scheme to bury stories about his alleged affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal, has been the prosecution's first witness in the criminal hush money trial against Trump in Manhattan. The former...
Former President Donald Trump's trial antics are already starting to hurt him, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman explained to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Friday — and make life hell for his attorneys.The problem is, he explained, Trump's repeated penchant for attacking witnesses and violating gag orders has led to prosecutors keeping a witness who will testify at trial secret, and the judge allowing that would effectively be a "serious sanction" against Trump's behavior that will make preparing his...
Tim O'Brien, Senior Executive Editor at Bloomberg Opinion and NBC News Correspondent Vaughn Hillyard join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with the mob boss tactics of Donald Trump now impacting the jury selection process and throwing into the question whether this trial can be conducted fairly if Trump is not held accountable for violating gag orders.
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful about revealing information about those who will sit in judgment of the former president.