Last week, when Donald Trump started teasing a big abortion announcement, it felt similar to what he used to do with the famous “infrastructure week” — but about women’s bodies. For any of us who’ve even remotely followed Trump’s many different stances on abortion, trust me when I say none of us were holding our breath. The former president, whose Supreme Court nominations while in office inarguably enabled Roe to be struck down and women’s reproductive rights rolled back, has been wildly...
Months of planning have gone into the handful of minutes it will take for the moon to pass in front of the sun on Monday. Dozens of towns and cities in the solar eclipse’s path of totality have arranged packed schedules of celebratory events and viewing sites, preparing to welcome legions of enthusiastic visitors like Michael Howard. The 62-year-old is flying from Baltimore to San Antonio, Texas, and then driving about 65 miles northwest to Kerrville — where he’s all but certain to hit eclipse...
Former Trump White House attorney Jim Schultz says that Trump's post about
It’s a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see or even hear what is going on.
An Ohio judge has issued a two-week block against the state’s ban on gender-affirming care, which was set to go into effect on April 24. During that two-week block, a […]
For the third time in three days, a New York appellate judge has denied an attempt by former President Donald Trump to delay his hush money trial. Trump on Wednesday asked a New York appeals court for emergency relief to stop the criminal trial scheduled to begin Monday from going ahead so he could appeal a lower court’s ruling on presidential immunity and have the judge recused from the case. It took Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer just minutes after hearing arguments to reject the interim...
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...
Case on Monday will be first ever criminal trial of an ex-president as Trump’s lawyers fight to put it off and try to remove its judgeA New York appeals court on Wednesday rejected, for the third straight day, a last-ditch attempt by Donald Trump’s lawyers to delay his hush money trial.The case is due to be tried on Monday in the first ever criminal trial of a former US president. Continue reading
April 8 (UPI) — A New York state appellate court judge on Monday denied a bid by former President Donald Trump to delay the start of his trial over alleged hush-money payments made to an adult film actress. Justice Lizbeth González denied the request following an emergency hearing in which Trump’s attorneys sought the delay […] The post Update: Judge denies Trump’s bid to delay start of hush-money trial first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial said Monday that Trump cannot attend arguments at the Supreme Court next week over presidential immunity. It came after the judge earlier delayed a decision on allowing Trump to attend his son Barron's high school graduation in May. The attempts by Trump to take []
The New York judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial said Monday that Trump cannot attend arguments at the Supreme Court next week over presidential immunity. It came after the judge earlier delayed a decision on allowing Trump to attend his son Barron's high school graduation in May. The attempts by Trump to take []
If regulators wanted to crack down on 'junk insurance' plans, they should do something about Obamacare itself.