Former Illinois star Terrence Shannon Jr. will stand trial on first-degree felony rape and felony sexual aggravated battery charges June 10, a Kansas judge ruled at his preliminary hearing Friday.
(AP) – U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the U.S. judicial system on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court with Donald Trump and using his powerful position to attack the hush money case against the former president as an illegitimate “sham.” It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The […]
By MEG KINNARD (Associated Press) U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the U.S. judicial system on Tuesday as he became the highest-ranking Republican to attend court with Donald Trump, echoing unsubstantiated or disproven arguments made by the former president and his allies. It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics. The powerful House speaker […]
Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert joined fellow GOPers at Trump's NYC trial. Boebert was a no-show at her teenage son Tyler's criminal trial last week. Tyler told the judge he had financial struggles despite his mom's $175k salary
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the hush money case against Donald Trump Tuesday as an illegitimate “sham,” becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court, embrace the former president’s claims of political persecution and attack the U.S. system of justice. It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying […]
Almost exactly 109 years ago, another "polarizing, braggadocious former Republican President" sat in a courtroom, this time in Syracuse.
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A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump's trial date for his classified documents case would be postponed, citing issues with the case.
By Charlie Spiering, Senior Political Correspondent, Washington, Dc Published: 17:30 BST, 7 May 2024 | Updated: 17:54 BST, 7 May 2024 A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that President Donald Trump's trial date in his classified documents case will be postponed, citing ongoing issues in the case.Trump-appointed District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the trial would be postponed indefinitely to resolve...
The Democratic Party’s pathetic abuse of the criminal justice system to help reelect President Joe Biden reached a new low this week when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who campaigned on a promise to prosecute Donald Trump, put pornographic actress Stormy Daniels on the stand solely to broadcast demeaning details of a sexual encounter with […]
Former President Donald Trump's criminal trial could wrap up as early as next week.Judge Juan Merchan told the court Thursday that closing arguments in the hush money trial could begin as soon as Tuesday. Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to the hush money payment that was made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Trump has pleaded not guilty and has denied Daniels' allegations that the two had a sexual encounter.The update came...
Even after five weeks, the Trump bookkeeping case in Manhattan is a "Potemkin Village," according to law professor Jonathan Turley. That means it has all the appearance of being real, but upon closer inspection, there's no there there. Indeed, the indictment of former President Donald Trump on 34 counts of bookkeeping errors, statute-expired misdemeanors that have been miraculously spun into a series of felonies, is the Seinfeld of criminal cases. But a jury could still find him guilty. "It's...