Former President Donald Trump's latest filing in the presidential immunity case that will be heard before the Supreme Court next week has shocked one legal expert for its "audacious" claims. Trump's attorneys Monday filed a 33-page response to special counsel Jack Smith's argument that the former president is not protected from prosecution by blanket immunity and therefore can be tried on election interference charges in Washington D.C. federal court. In this new filing, Trump's attorneys build...
Donald Trump has two attractive ways to lose the presidential immunity arguments his attorneys will bring to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, a new legal analysis contends. Trump's lawyers are expected to argue Trump is immune from prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith's federal election interference case because his actions leading up to the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, were official acts, court records show.While legals experts doubt the court will rule in his favor, the 6-3...
Much of Thursday’s debate surrounded what an ‘official act’ is and if former president’s alleged actions fell under that
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.
WASHINGTON >> There was talk of drone strikes and presidential bribes, of a potential ruling “for the ages” and of the Founding Fathers, too. The presidential race went unmentioned but was not far from mind.
The Supreme Court appeared ready to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims of sweeping immunity and the broad protections he has sought to shut down his federal election subversion case, but also reluctant to give special counsel Jack Smith carte blanche to pursue those charges. After nearly three hours of oral arguments, several of the justices seemed willing to embrace a result that could jeopardize the ability to hold a trial before the November election. The court’s conservatives...
The Supreme Court seemed poised Thursday to grant former President Trump at least some protections from criminal prosecution after hearing two hours of arguments from his lawyers and prosecutors. Here are six things to know a historic day at the court. Justices were wary of blanket immunity claims Justices in both ideological camps expressed skepticism at
CNN’s Laura Coates discusses the possibility of an unfair “sleeper” juror making their way into the Trump jury selection and attempt a mistrial later on.
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin Monday revealed one major reason that Donald Trump's lawyers are fighting so hard to keep certain tweets he sent as president out of his criminal hush money trial.Rubin stood outside the Manhattan court where Trump stands accused of covering up money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels through his then-attorney Michael Cohen. She discussed one of many legal battles the former president will face in the weeks ahead. "Trump himself has tweeted that he repaid...
There are two Donald Trump election interference criminal cases making headlines in the courts this week. In one, the former president is on trial in a Manhattan courtroom for an alleged effort to “unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election.” In the other, he is arguing in the United States Supreme Court that absolute presidential immunity bars his federal indictment in DC for “subverting the election results” in 2020. The cases have major differences, but the biggest is this: The New...
Decision on immunity question could impact what charges Trump faces, and whether they go to trial before November presidential election
Former president is asking the Supreme Court to award him broad immunity from all criminal prosecution