A judge may be about to open up new information that could reveal former President Donald Trump took actions in his "private" capacity on January 6, rather than as a public official — with huge implications for his criminal trials.According to Law & Crime, "This is a key distinction for a group of former and current U.S. lawmakers and police suing Trump for violations of the Ku Klux Klan Act, as Law&Crime previously reported. Just this week, the former president filed a motion to stay that civil...
Instead, the judge ordered Trump to begin describing the basis for his claim that he is immune from the lawsuits.
The bipartisan Jan. 6 select committee spent months investigating the attack that left five people dead and more than 150 police officers injured as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.
The bipartisan Jan. 6 select committee spent months investigating the attack that left five people dead and more than 150 police officers injured as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.
The bipartisan Jan. 6 select committee spent months investigating the attack that left five people dead and more than 150 police officers injured as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election.
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case rejected the notion Wednesday that jailed defendants charged with some of the most violent crimes of the U.S. Capitol riot are “hostages” — a label Trump and his allies have frequently used to describe the prisoners. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the Capitol riot […]
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case rejected the notion Wednesday that jailed defendants charged with some of the most violent crimes of the U.S. Capitol riot are “hostages” — a label Trump and his allies have frequently used to describe the prisoners. U.S. […]
Special counsel Jack Smith’s latest brief to the Supreme Court on Donald Trump’s immunity claim strives to ensure that the justices' decision puts the Jan. 6 trial back on track, ending the detour the former president has extracted from a weak argument. The bulk of the brief Smith filed Monday is a methodical rejection of Trump’s far-fetched claims to immunity from prosecution for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Smith and his Supreme Court specialist, Michael Dreeben, closely follow...
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case rejected the notion Wednesday that jailed defendants charged with some of the most violent crimes of the U.S. Capitol riot are “hostages” - a label Trump and his allies have frequently used to describe the prisoners.
Donald Trump's lawyers have just 24 hours to hand over evidence to prosecutors or risk seeing it banned from the former president's criminal hush money trial, according to a reporter inside the courtroom. New York City Judge Juan Merchan set the deadline Monday after Assistant District Attorney Josh Steinglass said Trump's attorneys had failed to turn over any of the exhibits they plan to use in the former president's defense, according to Law 360 reporter Stewart Bishop. Trump's legal team was...
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has granted a request for a protective order on “sensitive” or “highly sensitive” information that may be disclosed during discovery in the criminal case against two Bartholomew County residents accused of assaulting law enforcement officers and storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Continue reading at The Republic News.