Three days ahead of the start of the first criminal trial of a former U.S. President, the judge presiding over the case denied a motion made by Donald Trump's legal team aiming to delay the proceedings. In Judge Juan Merchan's
MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Joy Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jen Psaki, and Chris Hayes to discuss day one of his criminal trial in New York. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)
The judge rejected Donald Trump’s latest motion for a delay in the Stormy Daniels hush money payoff case. How did we get here? And who will testify?
House Speaker Mike Johnson had a plan. He had planned to finally—finally—send the articles of impeachment for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate this week, even though the impeachment, as he well knows, is dead on arrival because even Republican senators can’t get it up to convict. But now, according to The Hill, Johnson has a new plan. And the new plan is to keep waiting. “To ensure the Senate has adequate time to perform its constitutional duty, the House will...
NEW YORK >> The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case today turned down the former president’s request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case.
On Monday, I wrote that we should “expect this week to include rejections of desperate defense attempts to further delay” Donald Trump’s hush money trial. With the former president already striking out three separate times at the state appeals court this week, he has exceeded my modest prediction — and it’s only Thursday. The serial rejections show that the New York state courts — so far — are not entertaining the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s delay gambits. Jury selection in the first...
When former Rep. Ken Buck announced last month that he was resigning from Congress, the Colorado Republican made little effort to hide his disgust with the state of the institution. In fact, he pointed to one specific abuse — executed by his own party — that he found especially indefensible. “We’ve taken impeachment, and we’ve made it a social media issue as opposed to a constitutional concept,” Buck declared. “This place keeps going downhill.” He was referring, of course, to House Republicans’...
Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) wife, Nadine Menendez, is seeking to delay her criminal trial set to begin next month due to a new “serious medical condition.” Nadine Menendez’s lawyers wrote to U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein asking to delay the trial, which is set to begin on May 6. Stein is overseeing the trial of
Former President Donald Trump lost his third attempt in a week to delay his hush money-related charges from heading to trial on Monday.Trump's lawyers had motioned on Wednesday to push back the trial while an appeals court considers New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan's rulings that struck down previous requests to postpone the case.Within minutes after arguments, the latest motion was dismissed by Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer for the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of...
New York Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer rejected an effort to delay Donald Trump's hush money trial for a third time this week.Trump attorney Emil Bove asked the appeals court to delay the trial by filing a sealed civil action against Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the criminal case.Bove argued, among other things, that Merchan benefited from Trump's prosecution because his daughter worked for a political consulting company. But Bove told Gesmer he could not prove the allegations because...
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- The man accused of killing his girlfriend’s son and storing his body in a freezer appeared in court Tuesday after a judge ordered him in her courtroom by any means necessary.