N.Y. Gives Trump The Anne Boleyn Treatment Authored by Richard Porter via RealClear Politics, Jury selection is underway now complete in the case of The People of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump, which alleges that the defendant lied to his own check register, and lied to the general ledger of his own company, when the invoice given to him by his lawyer was paid and recorded by someone else, and that the misstatement he made to himself in his own records was done “with...
Shortly after a New York appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein's conviction on rape charges in Manhattan, a defense attorney in the disgraced movie mogul's Los Angeles case said the same should happen in California. If Weinstein's lawyer Mark Werksman has any doubts about whether the same legal strategy will work in both states, he didn't betray them in his comments after Thursday's victory for his client. “We faced the same fundamental unfairness in the Los Angeles case, where the judge let...
Before he went into court in New York City on Thursday morning, Donald Trump stopped by to talk to some construction workers, shake some hands, sign some hats, and make some news.
New York Judge Arthur Engoron ruled Monday that the $175 million bond posted by former President Donald Trump for his civil fraud case can stand.
Donald Trump — now a former president on trial — has sought to turn his legal peril into a boost for his presidential campaign, animating his supporters and attempting to sow doubt about the motives of his opponents. But facing 34 counts of felony charges, Trump argued on the historic first day of his New York hush money trial that he is the victim of a criminal justice system weaponized against him. He called it “an assault” on the nation. And as the presumptive Republican nominee for...
A climber who died after falling 1,000 feet in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve was identified on Saturday as Robbi Mecus, a noted climbing enthusiast and forest ranger. Mecus, 52, from Keene Valley, New York, was an outspoken advocate for expanding the presence of fellow transgender people in alpine climbing. In 2022 she co-founded the Queer Ice Fest in the Adirondack Mountains of her adopted hometown, and the event earlier this year was its third annual happening. New York Department...
The conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court seems set to "narrow the scope" of the criminal case against Donald Trump which alleges that he conspired to subvert the 2020 election, according to a new report. If Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution because he was president is accepted, even in part, by the court, it would "most likely send the case back to the trial court to draw distinctions between official and private conduct," making it much harder to carry out the trial...
In a dramatic reversal of the nation's landmark #MeToo trial, a New York appeals court on Thursday overturned the sex assault conviction of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. The state appeals court found, in a 4-3 decision, that the judge who presided over Weinstein’s 2020 trial prejudiced his case by allowing four women who said Weinstein had assaulted them to serve as witnesses even though their allegations were not a part of the case. The trial judge also made a mistake, the court...
Shortly after leaving the courtroom on Tuesday evening, former President Donald Trump made a campaign stop at a New York City bodega where a clerk in 2022 fatally stabbed a customer in self-defense.The Context Trump on Monday became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case, as his hush-money proceedings began with jury selection. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, with 34 felony counts...
The first seven jurors were chosen Tuesday in a New York trial to decide whether former President Donald Trump criminally concealed hush money payments to a porn star around the 2016 election.
A New York judge began former President Donald Trump’s trial Monday by rejecting attempts to oust him from the case, saying claims he is too biased to preside over the case are “attenuated” and unfounded.
PROVO, Utah, April 22, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — The New York Jets are trading former BYU quarterback Zach Wilson to the Denver Broncos, ending a tumultuous three-year stint with the team that selected him No. 2 overall in the 2021 NFL Draft. The Jets are sending Wilson and a seventh-round pick in the 2024 NFL […] The post Reports: N.Y. Jets trade former BYU QB Zach Wilson to Denver Broncos first appeared on Gephardt Daily.