• Trump: National Abortion Law Not Needed

    Friday, while speaking at his Mar-a-Lago home, former President Donald Trump indicated that a new law at the federal level governing abortion is unnecessary, as the Supreme Court decision that overturned

  • Trump's White House Didn't Archive Twitter DMs

    Documents from Trump's motion to compel in Florida remind of newly significant details of his White House's failure to preserve tweets covered by the Presidential Records Act.

  • What you need to know about Trump's hush-money trial

    The presumptive Republican nominee for president will juggle a six-week trial in New York with campaigning.

  • Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime

    Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. The curious aspect of the case is that the prosecutors are stressing that they will prove largely uncontested facts. Indeed, if all of these facts of payments, non-disclosure agreements, and...

  • Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, all he needs now is a crime

    We’ve never seen a case like this one where a dead misdemeanor from 2016 could be revived as a felony just before the 2024 election

  • Trump Supporters Need 'Gut Check' on 2024 Election: Steve Bannon

    Steve Bannon, right-wing media personality and former White House chief strategist under the Trump administration, on Wednesday said Donald Trump supporters need a "gut check" amid the 2024 presidential election.Trump and President Joe Biden have clinched nominations of the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively, but a rematch of 2020 is unpopular with voters, who routinely tell pollsters that they believe neither should get a second term. Hypothetical general election matchups have...

  • Donald Trump Needs a Will Smith-Style Gag Order (Minus the Slap)

    The best thing Judge Juan Merchan could do would be to issue a Will Smith-style directive to Trump: “Keep my jurors (and trial) out of your mouth.”

  • With impeachment dud, House Republicans fail to produce political stunt Trump needs

    Despite parading through the halls of the Capitol as a handsome group to deliver their articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, they appear to have fallen short again of producing the kind of political stunt that can boost Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Rep. Jamie Raskin discusses the Republican disarray as they try to find issues they can rally around that don't also push away voters.

  • ‘Sleepy Don’: Trump sparks Twitter hilarity as he appears to fall asleep at trial

    His ‘Sleepy Joe’ nickname for his rival seems to have come full circle, with social media users now calling Mr Trump ‘Sleepy Don’

  • Jesse Watters bemoans "cruel" punishment of forcing Trump to sit in court: "he needs sunlight"

    The right-wing outrage machine is firing on all cylinders over the vicious mistreatment of their dear leader, Donald Trump , as he faces the music for his hush money scandal. Yesterday Fox News host Jesse Watters expressed his deepest sympathies for the plight of the former president being forced to sit in a courtroom during his criminal trial. — Read the rest

  • 'Red line': Ex-prosecutor says Trump being put in a holding cell 'needs to happen'

    Former senior Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann related Donald Trump's intimidation of jurors to that of a mafia case. It might be enough for the judge to act.Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, Weissmann said that Judge Juan Merchan's "red line" likely protects the jurors. Last night, a Fox News host attacked one juror for saying she doesn't believe anyone is above the law. The host said that disqualifies her.It was a take that shocked Wallace because she believes that...

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    Opinion: New York understood the need for speed on Trump’s immunity claim. Will SCOTUS?

    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...