Month: April 2024

Former President Donald Trump is asking an appeals court to weigh in on whether the judge in his New York criminal hush money case was correct in shutting down his “presidential immunity” defense, CNN reported Wednesday, marking Trump’s latest attempt to push back on his first-ever criminal trial—just five days before it’s set to begin.Former…
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Campaign 2024: Former President Trump Remarks in Atlanta  C-SPAN source

Trump loses last-ditch bid to delay hush money trial as jury questionnaire revealed: Live updates  Yahoo! Voicessource

Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press Leave your feedbackNEW YORK (AP) — Allen Weisselberg, a retired executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil fraud lawsuit brought against the former president by New…
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GOP suffers Arizona meltdown on abortion that could hurt Trump, Lake  Axiossource

Do you want to be Donald Trump’s running mate?That’s the question the former one-term president asked supporters in an email Sunday evening. But that query, like another he sent last Thursday night, was really just Trump asking them more money while casting himself as a victim of judicial injustice and media mistreatment.He’s in a bind.…
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Trump looms over fight to oust Speaker Johnson  CNNsource

Arizona bombshell tests Trump’s abortion gamble — one day later  Axiossource

Democrats in Arizona attempted Wednesday to repeal a law banning nearly all abortions in the state that is set to take effect because of a state Supreme Court decision a day earlier, but they were blocked in both chambers by Republicans. The action took place in both chambers of Arizona’s Legislature. In the House, Phoenix…
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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – Wisconsin Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos speaks during a news conference, Sept. 18, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The effort by supporters of former President Donald Trump to recall Wisconsin’s top elected…
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Maggie Haberman reacts to Trump’s abortion statement  CNNsource

<!– Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon}   Health Care Health Care <!–   The Big Story  Fallout from Arizona abortion ruling just beginning   An Arizona Supreme Court decision imposing a near-total abortion ban shows there’s no safe position for Republicans to take on abortion.    © Caitlin O’Hara/Bloomberg via Getty…
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Former President Donald Trump will go on trial in Manhattan next week as he faces felony charges for falsifying bank records—the first of his criminal cases to go to trial—which will mark the culmination of a yearslong saga stemming from his alleged affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels and a “hush money” payment made…
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Shankweiler’s Drive-In, in Lehigh County, was set to host a 90th anniversary celebration Saturday — until Trump rolled into town.On Saturday, Shankweiler’s Drive-In was set to host an anniversary celebration the likes of which you’ve never seen.The North Whitehall Township drive-in, which is currently America’s oldest, was planning to show a double feature of “Twister…
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AdvertisementSupported byGuest EssayBy Caroline FredricksonMs. Fredrickson is an adviser at the Open Markets Institute, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice and a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University.There are almost daily headlines now describing what Donald Trump would do if elected: the mass deportations, the pardons handed out to his friends…
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The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox.Lawyers for Donald Trump have filed another appeal in the hush money case to challenge the order by the trial’s judge denying him from arguing he has presidential immunity.Trump’s attorneys also are challenging Judge Juan Merchan’s “refusal” to recuse himself from the trial and a previous…
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An appellate court judge denied former President Donald Trump’s request to pause the date of his upcoming criminal lawsuit in New York on Tuesday. Justice Cynthia Kern’s ruling was the second time in the past week that a decision has been made regarding Trump’s efforts to slow the case going to trial.Jury selection currently remains…
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Trump ex-deputy Weisselberg to be sentenced over perjury plea  Reuterssource

TV networks press Trump, Biden for debate  Axiossource

By Dominic Patten Executive Editor, Legal, Labor & Politics The contrast between Donald Trump on Univision last year and Joe Biden on Univision Tuesday was night and day, but the result was still pretty much the same. Exactly five months after a controversial interview with the 45th President by Enrique Acevedo, the anchor of Televisa’s…
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When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced his 2024 running mate last month, his allies expected a bump in excitement that typically follows a big campaign announcement.    That bump hasn’t materialized. The independent candidate is trailing President Biden and former President Trump by significant margins even after unveiling attorney Nicole Shanahan as his vice presidential pick,…
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Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday denounced former President Trump’s exhortation for Congress to kill the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) as “crazy and reckless” and warned there will be “blood on people’s hands” if the intelligence community’s surveillance authority expires and there’s a terrorist attack on the United States. Barr, who served in Trump’s Cabinet in…
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Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail for lying in civil fraud case  POLITICOsource

Trump Documents CaseAdvertisementSupported byThe special counsel had asked that the names of about two dozen government witnesses be redacted from a public version of a court filing to protect against potential threats or harassment.By Alan FeuerGranting a request by federal prosecutors, the judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case ordered his lawyers…
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