• Slate

    Stormy Daniels Trump trial: Why the legal arguments are stronger than I thought.

    The prosecution of Donald Trump starting in New York this week is on firm

  • Democrats Want Donald Trump 'Killed,' Legal Analyst Warns

    Legal analyst Alan Dershowitz warned on Sunday about newly introduced legislation that would strip felons of Secret Service protection, saying that Democrats want former President Donald Trump "killed."Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, brought forth the "Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act"—or the DISGRACED Act—on Friday...

  • 'Spitting the truth': Alina Habba plays up apparent demotion from Trump's legal team

    Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba says she has transitioned to a new role after serving as his attorney in previous fraud and defamation cases that resulted in more than a half billion dollars in penalties.Habba won't represent the former president in his Manhattan criminal trial of charges that he falsified business records to conceal hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, saying that she will instead serve as Trump's "legal adviser," reported The Independent.“I plan,...

  • STUDY: At Least 90% of TV News Fails to Call Trump Prosecutors ‘Democrats’

    Barring a last-minute hiccup, today a Democratic prosecutor — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — will begin his unprecedented criminal trial of former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s certain presidential nominee in November’s general election. Despite the obvious political implications of such a prosecution, a new study of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage shows at least 90% of their coverage failed to inform viewers that Bragg and the other elected Democrats going...

  • STUDY: At Least 90% of TV News Fails to Call Trump Prosecutors ‘Democrats’

    Barring a last-minute hiccup, today a Democratic prosecutor — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — will begin his unprecedented criminal trial of former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s certain presidential nominee in November’s general election. Despite the obvious political implications of such a prosecution, a new study of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage shows at least 90% of their coverage failed to inform viewers that Bragg and the other elected Democrats going...

  • Obama Attorney Leads Secret Meetings of TV Legal Commentators to Spin Trump Trials

    So who’s going to be first GOP candidate who understands and articulates to his or her supporters what the

  • 'We'll see': Trump's ex-attorney doubts his legal team can stop him from testifying

    Donald Trump's attorneys can only do so much to keep their client off the witness stand, but in the end the former president will do what he wants, his former attorney said Monday. Jim Trusty, the attorney who bailed on Trump's classified documents, appeared on CNN to discuss the prospects of whether his ex-client should take the stand in his ongoing criminal hush money trial. "In terms of testifying on the witness stand — I'd say 'Look, let's make this about Michael Cohen and nothing...

  • Potential Juror Dismissed After Trump's Legal Team Finds 'Lock Him Up' Posts on Social Media

    As day two of former President Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial continued, attorneys for the former president had a potential juror dismissed after they found posts calling for Trump to be jailed.

    • MSNBC

    Team Trump’s legal losing streak continues on Day 1 of hush money trial

    Lisa Rubin MSNBC Legal Correspondent who was in the courtroom, and Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to what happened on the first day of the trial in Donald Trump’s alleged hush money payments and what to expect as jury selection continues in this trial.

    • Axios

    "Your client is a criminal defendant": N.Y. judge denies Trump team request to attend SCOTUS oral arguments

    The judge overseeing former President Trump's New York criminal case

  • 'Special Treatment'? Politico Legal Editor Claims Legal System Is Too Nice to Trump

    If anybody has any doubt about the extreme liberal bias of Politico, an article they published on Friday should resolve that matter. Their legal editor, James Romoser, attempted to portray the legal system as being too nice to Donald Trump. The diatribe was headlined: "How Donald Trump Gets Special Treatment in the Legal System." He lies about his cases. He vilifies the judges overseeing them — and then vilifies their wives and daughters, too. As Trump prepares to begin his first criminal...

  • 'Special Treatment'? Politico Legal Editor Claims Legal System Is Too Nice to Trump

    If anybody has any doubt about the extreme liberal bias of Politico, an article they published on Friday should resolve that matter. Their legal editor, James Romoser, attempted to portray the legal system as being too nice to Donald Trump. The diatribe was headlined: "How Donald Trump Gets Special Treatment in the Legal System." He lies about his cases. He vilifies the judges overseeing them — and then vilifies their wives and daughters, too. As Trump prepares to begin his first criminal...