On the first day of his criminal fraud trial in New York, former President Donald Trump requested that the judge not hold court proceedings on May 17 -- the day of his youngest son's high school graduation. The judge did not rule on the request, saying he preferred to wait to see how the trial unfolds.
Former President Donald Trump is continuing to fight his election subversion charges in Georgia after a judge struck down his attempts to drop the indictment on First Amendment grounds.In a court filing Monday afternoon, Trump, along with 13 of his co-defendants, motioned to appeal Judge Scott McAfee's ruling last week that denied the former president's effort to dismiss the case on claims that it violates the defendants' right to free speech. The document argues that appellate review of...
Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’Donald Trump bemoaned a lack of immigrants to the US from “nice” countries “like Denmark [or] Switzerland”, offering millionaire donors at a Florida fundraiser a reprise of infamous racist Oval Office remarks about people coming to America from “shithole countries”.Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president again, despite facing 88 criminal charges...
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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...
April 15 (UPI) — Donald Trump arrived at the Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday for the start of the criminal trial against him over alleged hush money payments made to an adult film actress. The former president has pleaded not guilty to all charges as Jury selection began in the court of Judge Juan Merchan. Monday morning, Merchan denied a pair […] The post Trump hush-money trial: Judge declines to recuse himself, bars ‘Access Hollywood’ tape first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
A federal judge has ruled that illegal immigrants stuck in makeshift outdoor “detention” sites in Southern California are technically in the government’s custody and agents must now follow strict rules for delivering care to the children among them.
Over the course of the last couple of years, Donald Trump has shared a few unkind words about special counsel Jack Smith. The former president has, for example, referred to the prosecutor as a “thug” in a “mental state of derangement” who “may very well turn out to be a criminal.” Soon after, the Republican condemned the special counsel as a “mad dog psycho.” He’s also accused Smith of overseeing “a Gestapo type operation,” as well as being an “animal” and a “lunatic.” At one point, Trump...
US District Judge Michael Farbiarz claims a conflict of interest won't let him oversee the DOJ lawsuit against Apple, so US District Judge Julien Neals is taking over the case. US District Court in New Jersey The U.S. Department Of Justice sued Apple along with 15 states claiming the company monopolizes portions of the smartphone market. The years-long battle has barely begun, yet changes are already happening. According to a report from Reuters, District Judge Michael Farbiarz had to...
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's New York criminal case, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, is a Biden donor, Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Attorney Jeffrey Clark, who held a senior role in the U.S. Justice Department during Donald Trump‘s presidency, should face professional discipline over his effort to enlist the agency in the former president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, a Washington legal panel concluded on Thursday. The finding, which
In court documents made public on Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicated that, if former President Trump chooses to take the stand in his ongoing "hush money" trial, Bragg would cross-examine him on