• CNN

    Trump tells Supreme Court that rejecting immunity claim ‘would be the end of the presidency as we know it’

    Former President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that future presidents could be vulnerable to “de facto blackmail and extortion while in office” if the justices did not accept his sweeping view of immunity against special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion charges. However, the presumptive 2024 GOP White House nominee also floated an alternative route for the justices – if they were unwilling to accept his maximalist theory of presidential immunity – that would still help...

    • Yahoo

    Trump legal news brief: Court lowers bond in Trump fraud judgment appeal to $175 million

    A New York appeals court on Monday lowers the bond amount that former President Donald Trump must pay as he appeals the $464 million judgment in his civil fraud trial, saying he can put up just $175 million within 10 days.

  • Court rejects redress claims by unrecognized Minamata victims

    A Japanese district court rejected Friday compensation claims by 144 unrecognized sufferers of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease against the state and others. The Kumamoto District Court recognized 25 of the plaintiffs, who have not been eligible for relief payments under a special law, as victims of the disease, but did

  • Alexei Navalny: Russian court throws out mother's legal claim

    Lyudmila Navalnaya had filed a claim of improper medical care against the Russian penal colony.

    • MSNBC

    Trump's court appearances 'absolute nightmare' for campaign: Jim Messina

    Fulton County DA Fani Willis is not disqualified from the Georgia 2020 election interference case if Nathan Wade steps down. NBC News' Jon Allen, MSNBC contributor Sam Stein and White House Deputy Chief of Staff under President Obama Jim Messina discuss the political implications for the Trump campaign.

  • Morning Report — Biden courts donors; Trump seeks legal cash

    Follow the money: The 2024 general election financing season is in full swing. President Biden and former President Trump, who have clinched enough delegates to win their parties’ nominations for N

  • Trump asks Supreme Court for 'absolute immunity' in election interference case

    WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday told the Supreme Court he should be granted absolute immunity for his effort to overturn the 2020 election results that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, saying a ruling against him would "incapacitate every future president." Trump's legal team filed a brief outlining its legal arguments ahead of oral arguments on April 25, saying Trump should enjoy absolute immunity for any official acts he undertook as president. "The...

  • Donald Trump's Truth Social Posts May Backfire in Court—Legal Analyst

    Former President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts may backfire in court amid the his ongoing legal cases, according to attorney and legal analyst Joyce Vance on Sunday.Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, was fined $355 million after being found liable in a civil fraud trial brought against him and The Trump Organization by New York Attorney General Letitia James, which accused him of fraudulently overvaluing assets to secure more favorable bank loans. With interest, the penalty is...

  • Trump under fresh legal scrutiny as courts 'tighten the screws on him': MSNBC analyst

    Former President Donald Trump is hoping that the Truth Social merger will give him a large enough wealth infusion to get a handle on his multiple legal judgments, at least as long as he can get them appealed — and he claimed on Truth Social that he has already come up with the half a billion dollars he needs in any case.But the sheer amount of money he owes is only one of the problems for him, MSNBC reporter Adam Reiss told anchor Chris Hayes on Friday. Another is the eagle-eyed scrutiny and...

  • Supreme Court Overturns Electoral Bureau’s Rejection of United Right Alliance

    The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ) on Tuesday admitted the appeal filed by the United Right Alliance (USR, PMP, Forța Dreptei) against the decision of the Central Electoral Bureau to reject its founding protocol. Thus, USR, Forța Dreptei and PMP can participate in the elections together. The ruling of the High Court is […]

  • Majority in US reject Trump’s immunity claim, including half of Republicans

    Polls also finds that nearly half of respondents, 46% did not trust the supreme court to issue ‘a fair and nonpartisan ruling’Seventy per cent of American voters, and 48% of Republicans, reject Donald Trump’s claim to be immune from criminal prosecution for acts committed in office, a new poll said.In the poll from Ipsos and Politico Magazine, just 11% backed the former president and presumptive Republican nominee’s claim, as expressed in his federal election subversion case that has reached the...

  • Inside court: Trump can only sit in silence while his hush money judge rejects his delays

    An imposing neoclassical New York criminal courthouse overlooks a small