New York Attorney General Letitia James is urging state Judge Arthur Engoron to reject the $175 million bond former President Donald Trump is posting in his civil fraud case.According to MSNBC legal analyst Adam Klasfeld, James' filing says that Trump's bond fails to meet "requirements of trustworthiness and competence" and should therefore be held "without effect."Trump was found liable for over $450 million in the case earlier this year, after James demonstrated the former president and his...
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...
Juan Merchan reserves judgment on prosecutors' request for maximum fine but
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money election interference case appears poised to rule that the former president repeatedly violated his gag order. But what’s much less clear is how he chooses a punishment that preserves judicial integrity and avoids political theater.It won’t be easy. After an hour-long hearing, which concluded with Judge Juan Merchan warning Trump’s attorney that he is “losing all credibility with this court,” an angry Trump stormed out of the courtroom, refusing to...
The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar, a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressed Trump lawyer D. John Sauer during Supreme Court arguments on the distinction between official and personal acts alleged in the charges. University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck shares his takeaway.
A Michigan judge warned that disparaging online comments about witnesses could lead to contempt charges, highlighting concerns about witness intimidation in a high-profile case involving so-called "fake electors." District Court Judge Kristin Simmons addressed the issue on Tuesday during a hearing. She pointed out that making negative comments about witnesses on social media platforms like Facebook could be seen as an attempt to intimidate. The case centers around 16 individuals, including...
Stellantis will have to continue paying its supplier, MacLean-Fogg, in order to receive transmission parts in the U.S.
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
On this two-part episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland discusses the Eucharist, a recent letter to the faithful, and the need for Catholics to be 'warriors of truth.'
The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.
New York Justice Juan Merchan blasted Todd Blanche, an attorney for Donald Trump, for suggesting his client should not have to attend his criminal trial next week. At the conclusion of the first day of Trump's hush money trial, Blanche sought permission for his client to be absent from the courtroom for Wednesday campaign events and to attend a Supreme Court hearing next Thursday.Merchan initially seemed open to the proposal."Blanche says that the campaign has taken pains to schedule events on...