Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. Donald Trump lost pretrial motions this week in all three criminal cases that haven’t been paused. (The fourth one is on hold, pending a Supreme Court review.) The hush money case is still on track for an April 15 trial in New York, Jack Smith and Aileen Cannon are dueling in Florida, and in Georgia — well, it’s still unclear where that one is headed, but Trump lost a dismissal motion there, too. Oh, and his civil fraud appeal bond that seemed...
Federal Judge Aileen Cannon agreed Tuesday to special counsel Jack Smith's demand that she protect the names of witnesses in Donald Trump's classified documents case, according to court records and reports. Tuesday's ruling arrives after months of convincing from Smith that she should keep under seal the names of FBI and Secret Service agents serving as witnesses in the Florida case linked to classified documents found stored at Trump's social club Mar-a-Lago, the Washington Post reports. Cannon...
By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge decided Tuesday that the names of potential witnesses in the classified documents case against Donald Trump will remain secret – resolving one of the issues that has created a logjam in the criminal case. After months of arguing over what pieces of information
By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge decided Tuesday that the names of potential witnesses in the classified documents case against Donald Trump will remain secret – resolving one of the issues that has created a logjam in the criminal case. After months of arguing over what pieces of information
Over the course of the last couple of years, Donald Trump has shared a few unkind words about special counsel Jack Smith. The former president has, for example, referred to the prosecutor as a “thug” in a “mental state of derangement” who “may very well turn out to be a criminal.” Soon after, the Republican condemned the special counsel as a “mad dog psycho.” He’s also accused Smith of overseeing “a Gestapo type operation,” as well as being an “animal” and a “lunatic.” At one point, Trump...
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's New York criminal case, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, is a Biden donor, Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
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Retired US district court judge for the Southern District of New York Shira Scheindlin says there are parts of former President Donald Trump’s legal team’s motion asking Judge Juan Merchan to recuse himself from the New York hush money case that concern her.
(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday against the state judge overseeing his hush-money case in New York less than a week before jury selection is to begin. A state appellate court docket indicated the former president filed suit against New York Justice Juan Merchan. The documents remained under seal. Jury selection in the hush money case in New York could begin April 15, setting the stage for the first of Trump's four...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump wants judge off hush money case Former President Trump is mounting a new push to have Justice Juan Merchan recuse himself from the hush money trial that is set to pick up later this month.
Arguments in a landmark trans-rights lawsuit have returned to questions of biological sex and gender identity, as three days of hearings concluded. Roxanne Tickle is suing the Giggle for Girls app and its founder, Sall Grover, for $100,000 over alleged discrimination based on her gender identity, a Federal Court hearing was told on Thursday. Ms […]
WASHINGTON >> The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump granted a request by prosecutors on Tuesday aimed at protecting the identities of potential government witnesses.