Prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial made an interesting case, saying the billionaire is actually a 'penny pincher' who paid Michael Cohen double to cover up his 'affairs.'
During the second day of trial this week, Donald Trump’s attorney and the judge had a somewhat heated exchange over the gag order placed against the former president, according to reports.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecutors have accused Trump of violating acting Justice Juan Merchan’s gag order, which prohibits him from making public statements about anyone involved in the trial and their family members.On Tuesday, the trial began with a hearing on the alleged violations....
Trump let loose outside court after the first day of jury selection as he became the first U.S. ex-president to stand criminal trial.
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week with profound legal and political consequences: whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In addition to establishing a potentially historic ruling about the scope
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial on Tuesday warned that Trump's lawyer was "losing all credibility" in his arguments that the former president should not be punished for violating a gag order in the case. Justice Juan Merchan said he would not immediately rule on prosecutors' request
Even though former President Donald Trump enacted an executive order to ban TikTok while he was in the White House, he once again says he now opposes barring access to the popular social platform, writing in a post to Truth Social on Monday that President Joe Biden would be to blame for the possible restrictions."Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok," wrote the former president. "He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it...
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WASHINGTON >> The Supreme Court today questioned whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. But it wasn’t clear how the justices would rule in a case that also could affect the prosecution of former President Donald Trump, who faces the same charge for his efforts to overturn his election loss in 2020.
Despite his wife’s backing of Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has ignored calls to recuse himself from recent Jan. 6-related appeals. Perhaps it’s unsurprising, then, that his questioning Tuesday in such a case appeared to downplay the insurrection. At the oral arguments in an appeal over an obstruction law used against many Jan. 6 rioters, Thomas told the Justice Department’s lawyer, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar,...
Judge Juan Merchan's ruling banning Donald Trump from attending Supreme Court arguments next week in his presidential immunity case spurred sputters of outrage from the former president and laughter online. Trump told the media who gathered outside his hush money trial in Manhattan Monday that he was furious over Merchan's decision, which legal experts note is a common interpretation of criminal law. "Looks like the judge is not going to allow me to escape this scam," he told reporters. ...
Like all things Donald Trump, the first day of his hush money criminal trial in New York started like a brewing storm. Not only did Judge Juan Merchan have to once again shut down Trump's attempt to have the judge removed, the fed-up Merchan then warned Trump to behave — or go to jail. — Read the rest
Friday ended with Judge Juan Merchan telling Donald Trump to sit down. It was the culmination of an intense debate between Trump's lawyers and the prosecutors about the rules around whether Trump will testify in the trial. Known as a Sandoval hearing, the proceeding guarantees that the defense knows what might be asked if a criminal defendant takes the stand. ALSO READ: Revealed: What government officials privately shared about Trump not disclosing finances Tyler McBrien, Lawfare managing...