Progressive groups hail long-brewed move against influential donor but protest lack of summons for Harlan CrowThe big-money rightwing donor Leonard Leo said he would not comply with a subpoena issued by the US Senate judiciary committee, as it investigates undisclosed gifts to conservative supreme court justices that have stoked an ethics crisis at a court already held in historically low public esteem.Referring to Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the committee, Leo said: “I am not...
Congressional Hispanic Caucus leaders issued a statement Saturday rejecting calls for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire. Some left-wing activists have called for Sotomayor, 69, to step down from the high court under a Democratic president to avoid a repeat situation of the vacancy caused by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death in 2020. Ginsburg, […]
WASHINGTON — Rejecting an appeal brought by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, the Supreme Court on Monday skipped deciding whether the leader of a demonstration can be sued for an injury to a police officer caused by another protester. Mckesson, who was leading a protest in Baton Rouge in July 2016 following the police killing of a Black man, faces a lawsuit from an officer who was hit in the head by a rock or piece of concrete thrown by an unidentified person. The protest was sparked...
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The special counsel pursuing federal criminal charges against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss filed a U.S. Supreme Court brief on Monday urging the justices to reject the former president’s bid for immunity from prosecution on the principle that “no person is above the
DOTHAN, Ala (WDHN) -- On Friday, the highest court in Alabama refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Harvest Church in Dothan against the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. The fight began early last year when Harvest split from the AWFC and feared the denomination would seize their property. The church then []
Fifteen scholars on US history outline that Trump is not immune to prosecution for crimes committed while he was presidentFifteen prominent historians filed an amicus brief with the US supreme court, rejecting Donald Trump’s claim in his federal election subversion case that he is immune to criminal prosecution for acts committed as president.Authorities cited in the document include the founders Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Adams, in addition to the historians’ own work. Continue...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team urged the Supreme Court on Monday night to reject former President Donald Trump‘s claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The brief from prosecutors was submitted just over two weeks before
Trump appealed lower court’s denial of his request to be shielded from case charging him with attempting to overturn 2020 electionThe special counsel pursuing federal criminal charges against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss filed a US supreme court brief on Monday urging the justices to reject the former president’s bid for immunity from prosecution on the principle that “no person is above the law”.The case is due to be argued before the justices on 25 April....
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team urged the Supreme Court on Monday night to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The brief from prosecutors was submitted
Prosecutors urge Supreme Court to reject Trump's immunity claims in election subversion case
Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department and Claire McCaskill, former Senator from Missouri join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to a new letter urging the Supreme Court to reject the Trump Immunity question from retired high ranking officers in our military, with concerns that it could upend America’s standing as protector of democracy around the world.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team urged the Supreme Court on Monday night to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The brief from prosecutors was submitted just over two weeks before the justices take […]