Former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on at a campaign event in Waterford Township, Michigan, on Feb. 17, 2024. Rebecca Cook | Reuters The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to rule on whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal charges in his federal election interference case. The high court granted Trump’s request to … Read more
Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his civil fraud trial at New York Supreme Court on January 11, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday told Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith to respond to a request by … Read more
Former President Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity from prosecution on criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, a federal appeals court unanimously ruled Tuesday. “We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter,” a three-judge panel wrote in … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump told a judge Friday that defense lawyers had painted an “inaccurate and distorted picture of events” and had unfairly sought to “cast a cloud of suspicion” over government officials who were simply trying to do their jobs. The comments came in … Read more
Jaap Arriesn | Nurphoto | Getty Images A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied X Corp.’s latest challenge to a nondisclosure order it received as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. Smith first served X, formerly known as Twitter, with a search warrant for Trump’s account data … Read more
Former President Donald Trump made the inflammatory suggestion Tuesday that President Joe Biden is personally directing federal prosecutions against him in order to win the 2024 presidential election. Speaking after a critical appellate court hearing in Washington, Trump told reporters, “I think it’s very unfair when a political opponent is prosecuted by the DOJ, by … Read more
Former President Donald Trump asked the district court judge overseeing his trial for his actions leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, to hold special counsel Jack Smith in contempt of court, according to a filing submitted on Thursday. Trump’s filing claims that Smith, who is prosecuting the former president in a D.C. federal court, is … Read more
WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden could, in theory, have Donald Trump abducted from his Mar-a-Lago home, spirited off to St. Helena in the faraway South Atlantic, and secretly kept there indefinitely, or even straight-up killed, without ever having to worry about criminal charges. Or so says Donald Trump’s logic. As part of his arguments against … Read more
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WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that there is no need to expedite proceedings in the criminal case based on his coup attempt ― but failed to mention that he would have the power to end that prosecution should he return to the White House before the case is concluded. … Read more
