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Watch CBS News By Graham Kates Updated on: December 24, 2023 / 7:02 PM EST / CBS News ‘Tis the season to look back on a truly unprecedented year in America’s courts, when the sight of a former president sitting before a judge went from unheard of to almost commonplace, and his ongoing campaign fused…
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Former President Donald Trump on Saturday called on an appeals court to throw out the federal charges alleging he tried to steal the 2020 presidential election.Attorneys for the former president argued in a 71-page filing to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that the charges Trump faces should be dismissed. The lawyers claim Trump’s actions…
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Help keep Salon independentIn the two days since booting Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in Colorado, the state's Supreme Court has faced a bevy of threats — including some from members of the former president's legal team. During a Wednesday appearance on conservative network Real America's Voice, Jesse Binnall, an appellate lawyer for Trump, ripped…
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Help keep Salon independentThe Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request by special counsel Jack Smith to expedite arguments on whether Donald Trump had presidential immunity from federal prosecution for crimes he's accused of committing while in office in his federal election subversion case, CNN and Politico report. The high court did not offer any…
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Trump asks federal appeals court to grant him immunity  CNNsource

2024 Presidential ElectionAdvertisementSupported byFact CheckAs President Biden grapples with an unwieldy crisis at the southern border, his likely 2024 rival has leveled many criticisms — including some baseless and misleading claims.By Angelo FicheraFormer President Donald J. Trump has drawn widespread censure after reprising a line that casts undocumented immigrants as “poisoning the blood of our…
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., warned former President Donald Trump to not “look back” on the 2020 election if he becomes the Republican presidential nominee, saying that he thinks Trump risks losing in 2024 if he focuses on the past. “I accept the election results of 2020. I’m worried about 2024,” Graham said Sunday on…
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Supreme Court declines special counsel’s request to weigh in now on Trump immunity  NBC Newssource

E-EditionSign up for email newsletters Sign up for email newslettersE-Edition Trending: With each passing day, the race for the Republican nomination in New Hampshire is looking less like a foregone conclusion and more like an actual contest.There is now less than a month to go before Granite State voters become the first in the country…
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks during a commit to caucus rally, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa. Trump pressured two election officials not to certify 2020 vote totals in a key Michigan county, according to a recording of a post-election phone call disclosed in a…
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Daily News e-EditionEvening e-EditionSign up for email newsletters Sign up for email newslettersDaily News e-EditionEvening e-Edition Trending: Merry Christmas, Colorado.Not since Barack Obama was nominated to be president of the United States at the 2008 Democratic convention in Colorado has any state in this nation done something so politically correct.And by politically correct, I don’t…
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Watch CBS News By Kathryn Watson December 24, 2023 / 12:59 PM EST / CBS News From former President Donald Trump’s four criminal trials to the Republican presidential primaries and the crisis in the Middle East, 2024 promises to be a packed — if not chaotic — year both domestically and abroad. CBS News correspondents sat…
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Watch CBS News By Scott MacFarlane, Kathryn Watson Updated on: December 24, 2023 / 8:37 PM EST / CBS News Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has asked a federal appeals court to toss the criminal case alleging he violated multiple criminal statutes in his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election,…
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Podcast host Joe Rogan slammed what he said were President Biden’s claims about not having enough airports during the Revolutionary War, when it was former President Trump who said it.During Thursday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” with guest and mixed martial arts fighter Bo Nickal, Rogan said some voters regret voting for Biden in…
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Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inSpeculation has erupted over why the former president uses two black rectangular pads under his feet Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profileFirst there were Ron DeSantis’ alleged…
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Former President Donald Trump’s lead Georgia attorneys filed a motion on Monday that seeks to dismiss Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ charges against him based on 1st Amendment grounds.“The core political speech and expressive conduct alleged in this indictment against President Trump are protected from government regulation and…
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With the U.S. Supreme Court declining to intervene early, Donald Trump is now pressing in federal appeals court his claim that sweeping presidential powers protect him from facing prosecution for his efforts to undo the 2020 election results.In a filing late Saturday night, lawyers for the former president said such immunity is necessary for “bold,…
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Trump Federal Election CaseAdvertisementSupported byThe case will instead first be heard by a federal appeals court, which has put it on a fast track, scheduling arguments for Jan. 9.By Adam LiptakReporting from WashingtonThe Supreme Court declined on Friday to decide for now whether former President Donald J. Trump is immune from prosecution on charges of…
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By Peter Wade Donald Trump claimed that he was merely doing his “duty” as president by alleging that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen,” therefore believes he deserves “immunity” from prosecution. “I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was over. I was doing my duty as President to expose and further investigate a Rigged and Stolen…
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Subscribe Now! Get features likeA former Republican congressman and a vocal opponent of Donald Trump, Adam Kinzinger, has sparked a controversy by saying that people need to “wear a mask” around the former president because of his purported body odour.Kinzinger posted the comment on Twitter, drawing attention and eliciting a reply from Trump’s spokesperson.“Wear a…
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Supreme Court Declines To Rule on Trump’s “Absolute Immunity” Defense (For Now)  Vanity Fairsource

Former President Trump, the front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, released a new television ad Sunday afternoon that is set to air in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. In the one-minute ad spot, former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders described Trump’s surprise Christmas visit in 2018 to Iraq. The ad emphasized…
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That Time Trump Was Caught Lying on CNN About His Book-Reading Habits | Video  Yahoo Entertainmentsource

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Attorneys representing Trevian Kutti, one of the 19 Donald Trump-related co-defendants charged with attempting to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, don’t want to represent her anymore.On Tuesday, Darryl B. Cohen, Steven Greenberg and Joshua Herman filed a motion to withdraw as counsel of record in Fulton County Superior Court.Cohen’s…
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.FILE – Former President Donald Trump listens as he speaks with reporters while in flight on his plane after a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023, while en route to West Palm Beach, Fla. The Supreme Court said Friday, Dec. 22, that…
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