Month: April 2024

Justice Gorsuch ponders whether rejecting Trump immunity would incentivize presidents to ‘pardon themselves’ – live  The Guardian USsource

Trump immunity case highlights: Ex-president’s lawyers and DOJ argue before Supreme Court  NBC Newssource

Try our new AI-powered search betaYour browser does not support the <audio> element.Every trial involves two struggles, wrote Janet Malcolm, a shrewd observer of the American courtroom. One is engrossing, the other is stultifying, and both have been on full display at Donald Trump’s trial in a Manhattan courtroom in this past week.The first contest—the…
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Trump trial live: David Pecker’s testimony resumes in Trump trial  BBC.comsource

AdvertisementNewsletterWomen do not see it that way, and that could matter this fall.By Jess BidgoodThis month, The New York Times/Siena College poll asked voters how much they think former President Trump respects women: a lot, some, not much or not at all?You’ll never guess what happened next!A majority of men — 54 percent — said…
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Trump Took Part In Michigan ‘Fake Elector’ Plot But Not Charged: Official  Barron’ssource

Live updates: Supreme Court arguments on Trump immunity case  CNNsource

Prosecutors argue that Trump violated the gag order four more times  POLITICOsource

What It’s Really Like Inside Trump’s Trial  POLITICOsource

“If he’s not covered by the criminal law, he can’t be impeached for violating it at all,” the Supreme Court justice said during Thursday’s arguments.

Trump gets handed a lot more Truth Social stock  Axiossource

Donald Trump Suffers Huge Vote Against Him in Pennsylvania Primary  Newsweeksource

Arizona becomes the 4th state to charge Trump allies in a fake elector scheme  NPRsource

Senate Republicans set to defy Trump over the filibuster  Axiossource

Trump’s “Absolute Immunity” ClaimAdvertisementBy Adam LiptakReporting from WashingtonThe Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared ready on Thursday to rule that former presidents have substantial immunity from criminal prosecution, a move that would further delay the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election.Such a ruling would…
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The justices seemed to focus more on hypothetical future cases rather than the case immediately before them.

The judge said Trump delivered “malicious and unceasing attacks” against her.A federal judge in New York on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump's bid for a new trial in a defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. The ruling upheld the jury's $83.3 million damage award."Contrary to the defendant's arguments, Ms. Carroll's compensatory damages…
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Biden keeps needling Trump as he walks a tightrope over his rival’s trial  CNNsource

The decision means he’ll still need to pay damages in the libel case Carroll won against him.

ProfileSectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsThere are no new alerts at this timeA key witness in Donald Trump‘s criminal trial testified Thursday about his role in hush money payments to a porn actress and a Playboy model the former president allegedly had affairs with — and Trump’s plan to make sure other negative stories about him…
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Donald Trump again is trying to bend the Supreme Court and justice system to his will  CNNsource

Watch CBS News By Katrina Kaufman, Jared Eggleston, Graham Kates Updated on: April 25, 2024 / 2:08 PM EDT / CBS News David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified Thursday about his efforts to bury negative stories that might have hurt former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, including a $150,000 payment…
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A complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission alleges Donald Trump’s 2024 White House campaign and its related political committees engaged in a scheme to conceal who is being paid for much of the former president’s legal work in a possible violation of federal law.The complaint filed Wednesday by the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit…
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A federal judge rejected former President Trump’s latest attempt for a new trial, upholding the verdict and $83.3 million award in his defamation case against writer E. Jean Carroll. In a written opinion, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Trump’s arguments are “without merit.” “Mr. Trump’s malicious and unceasing attacks on Ms. Carroll were disseminated…
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Republicans in four states are facing charges after submitting documents to Congress falsely claiming that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election in their states. Investigations are ongoing and more charges could be filed.Every four years, presidential electors in every state meet on the same day in December to submit electoral ballots to federal authorities…
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