Donald Trump has had plenty to say since his hush money trial conviction last week. He’s claimed the case was rigged, incorrectly linked President Joe Biden to the state prosecution, called the star witness against him a “sleazebag” and said the judge was a “devil” and “highly conflicted”. What he hasn’t done is utter any … Read more
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial on Friday urged prosecutors to tell the former U.S. president’s estranged former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to stop making public statements about the case before his expected testimony next week. Todd Blanche, Trump’s defense lawyer in the case stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, … Read more
Judge David Godbey, the chief judge of the Northern Texas federal district court division, told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on March 29 that his court would not follow new guidelines meant to curtail the practice of “judge shopping,” a strategy that conservatives have increasingly used to strike down the policies of President Joe … Read more
A judge took the extraordinary step of rescinding his own guilty verdict last week in the case of a Mississippi civil rights attorney whom police arrested for filming a traffic stop last summer. Lexington police arrested Jill Collen Jefferson, who founded the grassroots group Julian in 2020, in June after she recorded officers performing a … Read more
Barred from giving a formal closing argument, Donald Trump still seized an opportunity to speak in court at the conclusion of his New York civil fraud trial Thursday, unleashing a barrage of attacks in a six-minute diatribe before being cut off by the judge. Trump spoke as the judge was trying to find out if … Read more
