Judge Tanya Chutkan recently handled a Jan. 6 case in which she may have hinted how she wants to handle Donald Trump, according to a reporter on Sunday. CBS News Congressional Correspondent Scott MacFarlane covered Chutkan's handling of the case of Antony Vo, who was previously found guilty by a jury of participating in the U.S. Capitol Riot. During the sentencing of that case, Chutkan reportedly buried her face in her hands in frustration. MacFarlane now says that case could have given...
Former President Donald Trump's recent comments about his hush money trial jury may have violated his gag order, according to a former judge.Trump made the questionable comments about his panel of New York City jurors in an interview with John Fredericks on Real America's Voice Monday night. "That jury was picked so fast," Trump said. "Ninety-five percent DemocratsIt's a very unfair situation, that I can tell you." Fredericks proceeded to call the trial a "scam Soviet manifesto trial going on...
Chief District Court Judge Elizabeth Trosch has been informed that the Chief Justice has appointed Judge Roy Wiggins as her successor effective May 1, 2024.
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...
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.
Judge Juan Merchan told President Donald Trump’s defense team they were "losing all credibility" during a Tuesday hearing on whether the 45th president violated a gag order in the Manhattan criminal trial. "I have to tell you right now, you’re losing all credibility in the court," Merchan told Trump attorney Todd Blanche on Tuesday. Tuesday’s court proceedings began with Merchan hearing the prosecution's request that Trump be held in contempt for violating a gag order that bans him from...
It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.
It's the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial's start Monday with jury selection.
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case has turned down the former president's request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case
Former Trump White House attorney Jim Schultz says that Trump's post about
Once again, former president Donald Trump is about to find out just how far he can push a judge. On Tuesday morning, Trump’s attorneys faced an angry barrage of questions from New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, demanding they explain why Trump should not be fined for what prosecutors in his hush-money case say […]
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.