The judge has yet to rule on other Trump efforts to dismiss the case, including arguments that presidential immunity shields him from prosecution.
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.
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.
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.
Just days before his hush money trial is set to begin, former President Donald Trump is seeking Judge Juan Merchan’s recusal from the case once again. In a motion filed Wednesday, Trump’s attorneys attempted a similar line of argument as in their first request for Merchan’s recusal last May. This time, they suggest that because Trump is now the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, he is sure to be a “political target” in Merchan’s daughter’s work. “President Trump is now the presumptive...
Washington, Apr 4 (Prensa Latina) A federal judge in Florida denied former President Donald Trump's motion to dismiss the classified documents indictment against him, ruling the Presidential Records Act (PRA) does not shield Trump from charges that he unlawfully retained national defense information. The post Judge denies Trump’s motion to dismiss documents case first appeared on Prensa Latina.
The judge overseeing Mr Trump’s case ran the trial which convicted the Trump Organization last year
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...
A federal judge refused Thursday to throw out the classified documents prosecution against Donald Trump, turning aside defense arguments that a decades-old law permitted the former president to retain the sensitive records after he left office. Lawyers for Trump had cited a 1978 statute known as the Presidential Records Act in demanding that the case, one of four against the presumptive Republican nominee, be tossed out before trial. That law requires presidents upon leaving office to turn over...