On the first day of his criminal fraud trial in New York, former President Donald Trump requested that the judge not hold court proceedings on May 17 -- the day of his youngest son's high school graduation. The judge did not rule on the request, saying he preferred to wait to see how the trial unfolds.
Former President Donald Trump is continuing to fight his election subversion charges in Georgia after a judge struck down his attempts to drop the indictment on First Amendment grounds.In a court filing Monday afternoon, Trump, along with 13 of his co-defendants, motioned to appeal Judge Scott McAfee's ruling last week that denied the former president's effort to dismiss the case on claims that it violates the defendants' right to free speech. The document argues that appellate review of...
Donald Trump and his 13 co-defendants in his Georgia election interference trial are appealing a recent ruling that upheld the criminal charges levied against them, court records show. Lawfare's Anna Bower reported Monday an appeal filed in Fulton County Superior Court over Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling, which rejected the claim that Trump’s voter fraud comments in the 2020 election were covered under free speech protections. As Atlanta First News pointed out, last week McAfee ruled that the...
Instead, the judge ordered Trump to begin describing the basis for his claim that he is immune from the lawsuits.
Former President Donald Trump was dealt a humiliating blow on Monday when a judge immediately dismissed his push to delay the April 15 date of his Manhattan hush money trial.Trump, whose attorneys had been arguing the delay was necessary in order to pursue a change of venue, were summarily denied by Judge Lizbeth Gonzalez, clearing the way for the former president's first criminal trial to begin later this month.Commenters on social media, including legal experts, were triumphant that the former...
EXCLUSIVE — A Nebraska Republican Party official resigned over the weekend, days after the failure of a legislative effort to change Electoral College vote rules that helped President Joe Biden in 2020 and could again this year in one of the nation’s otherwise reddest states. Doug Petersen stepped down as 2nd Congressional District chairman after […]
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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.
In court documents made public on Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicated that, if former President Trump chooses to take the stand in his ongoing "hush money" trial, Bragg would cross-examine him on
It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.
It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.