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Donald Trump has asked to pause the federal prosecution over his alleged mishandling of classified information after the US Supreme Court ruled the former president was potentially immune from criminal charges related to official acts.
Rulings made by the Supreme Court in its recently concluded term are the result of a long game played by conservatives from the Reagan revolution.
Chief Justice Roberts often prefers to avoid partisan decisions with careful compromises. Not so with the Trump immunity ruling.
A year ago, the legal system seemed to be closing in on Donald Trump. Prosecutors painted a sweeping portrait of a president who allegedly tried to overturn the results of an election he knew he lost,
Donald Trump could be convicted again before the upcoming inauguration, even if he is elected, according to legal experts.
The court’s conservative majority, ruled that the president has at least presumptive immunity for all official acts.
Ann, are celebrating that he and his fellow right-wing Supreme Court justices have made a king of our presidents, just when it seems more likely that Donald Trump could be restored to the throne. Also,
Norman Eisen cast doubt that the Supreme Court's immunity ruling would substantially impact his New York and Georgia cases.
Monday’s 6-3 Supreme Court ruling giving immunity to Trump is dangerous. This is not the America I thought we would live in as we celebrate the Fourth of July.
The Supreme Court made clear that its bombshell decision granting broad immunity to Donald Trump was intended in part to empower future presidents to make “energetic” and “vigorous” decisions without fear of criminal prosecution.
The judge in Trump's hush money case has postponed sentencing until September 18, raising the chances that a prison term could continue into next year.
Justice Department officials who served under Trump during his first term fear that the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling makes it easier for him to use the DOJ against his enemies if he is re-elected president.
Before the ink was dry on the Supreme Court’s extreme presidential immunity opinion, former President Donald Trump launched a Hail Mary to derail state cases — but it won’t work, writes Norman Eisen.
Trump's sentencing for his hush money conviction has been delayed while the possible impact of the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity is weighed.
For the most part, this criticism does not give the Supreme Court enough credit. In case after case, it has rightly emphasized the importance of turning to historical understandings in deciding constitutional cases rather than imposing modern policy views.
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is expected to use Monday’s historic Supreme Court decision granting him partial presidential immunity to attack the evidence against him in all four of his criminal cases,
Stephen King has called out three conservative Supreme Court Justices for allegedly considering former President Donald Trump to be "above the law" in a viral social media post. King, a frequent Trump critic and the author of classic horror novels like It and The Shining,
Lawyers in the department do not believe the policy bars them from proceeding against a president-elect, according to the people familiar with the discussions.
The Supreme Court immunity ruling puts Trump in a favorable position ahead of the election in November.
As the case enters a new phase, experts remain skeptical that former President Donald Trump's 11th-hour effort to overturn his conviction will be successful.
For Donald F. McGahn II, the former White House counsel, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, sweeping anti-regulatory rulings are the big payoff of their drive to reshape the federal courts.
Former President Donald Trump urged a judge on Friday to pause most of the proceedings in his classified documents case in Florida, arguing that the Supreme Court‘s recent decision on presidential immunity must be factored into the case first.
U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick suffered two strokes and died a day after the riots, during which he was assaulted and sprayed with a chemical irritant. His death has been connected to the attack by the Washington,
It sets ground rules for legal despotism, which is the antithesis of democracy. A University of Chicago constitutional scholar explains the long-term consequences of the Court's decision.
Former President Donald Trump asked a judge in New York this week to factor the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity into his hush money trial with the aim of having his conviction tossed out.
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared visibly perturbed as she complained last week about a Supreme Court ruling that curbed the powers of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
B EFORE presenting her opinion in a sleeper case on July 1st, the final day of the Supreme Court’s term, Justice Amy Coney Barrett elicited chuckles in the courtroom. “Sorry,” she quipped, announcing the result in Corner Post v Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
Senior law enforcement officials have long viewed the two federal indictments against Trump -- the 45th president and the presumptive Republican nominee in this year's election -- as operating with potential time constraints.
Ethics and legal experts warn that the Supreme Court has struck a serious blow to prosecutors’ ability to crack down on the abuse of power and public corruption. And that’s ringing alarm bells when Donald Trump,
A New York judge agreed Tuesday to delay the criminal sentencing of former President Donald Trump in the state hush money case after Trump claimed the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision absolves him.
Anyone who expected the Supreme Court to give clear guidance on the extent to which former President Donald Trump can be tried (and tried and tried) for the crimes of which he has been accused must surely be disappointed with the complexity of what the justices decided in Trump v.
Donald Trump won big this term at the Supreme Court. In two blockbuster cases for Trump, the court squashed efforts to knock the former president off the 2024 ballot and granted him broad immunity from a pending criminal case accusing him of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results.
The Supreme Court suggests a president's conversations with Justice Department officials are out of bounds for prosecutors -- even when he may be pressing them about investigations of his rivals.
The Supreme Court is seen Monday, July 1, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/) As featured on Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device.
Monday’s 6-3 Supreme Court ruling giving immunity to Trump is dangerous. This is not the America I thought we would live in as we celebrate the Fourth of July.
In 2023, almost 46% of all Supreme Court cases were unanimous. Yet another factual example is that out of 22 cases decided 6-3, only half produced outright ideological splits. The writer claims the court “spit on the Founding Fathers,
Former President Donald Trump invoked the Supreme Court's recent immunity decision to demand Judge Aileen Cannon rule special counsel Jack Smith's appointment is unconstitutional, according to a new filing in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
This commentary originally appeared in The Conversation. The United States Supreme Court has handed former president Donald Trump what may be the most favorable legal decision he could have reasonably hoped for in his fight against federal prosecution for his attempts to reverse the 2020 election outcome.
The Supreme Court issued three more opinions on Friday, marking the first time the justices have weighed in on the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The folks at the Jerry insurance app took a hard look at NHTSA data on holiday fatal crashes and turned up some sobering (literally) facts about Fourth of July driving.
The Supreme Court immunity ruling has complicated the federal election case against Donald Trump. Joyce Vance and Marcus Childress join Alicia Menendez to discuss.
Kristy Greenberg, former federal prosecutor, talks with Alex Wagner about why the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity is not likely to get Donald Trump out of his convictions in his New York criminal trial,
Ideally, the US Supreme Court is meant to be above politics, but its latest term will be remembered for crucial rulings with an outsize impact on the 2024 presidential election."The Supreme Court was designed to be unpopular;
Former CIA Director John Brennan, MSNBC national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi, and Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary McCord join Nicolle Wallace to discuss the terrifying national security implications of the new presidential immunity granted by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court immunity ruling puts Trump in a favorable position ahead of the election in November. Yahoo Finance