WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday began to hear former President Donald Trump's eligibility case, with the decision poised to set guidelines nationwide. Early January, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up whether Trump can be disqualified from appearing ...
Supreme Court justices decide for themselves whether to sit out a case and the only potential consequence for refusing to step aside is impeachment by the House of Representatives and removal from office by the Senate. That has never happened in American history. Trump, who was in...
Hinging on that decision is the Justice Department's case against Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Former President Trump's lawyers ask to throw out election meddling charges Also on the docket: a federal trial for mishandling classified records; Georgia state charges of state...
The Supreme Court instructed the district court judge in Washington overseeing the election case to examine whether Trump's alleged conduct detailed in the indictment were official or unofficial acts. "The public has a right to know the answer about what happened on Jan. 6, before they [are] ...
Trump is effectively running to stay out of prison. An electoral victory would eliminate that possibility in the short term, and possibly forever.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday heard a historic case challenging Donald Trump's ability to hold office again over his role in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump asked the justices to overturn an unprecedented Colorado Supreme Court decision deeming him ineligible to ...
Jonathan Mitchell, a Texas-based attorney for Trump, laid out his case first. He repeatedly pointed to an 1869 case involving a criminal defendant named Caesar Griffin, believed to be the first major judicial opinion on Section 3. Chief Justice Salmon Chase, serving as the circuit judge wh...
The court fight over Trump's eligibility for the White House sends the Supreme Court into new territory, as it has never before ruled directly on the 155-year-old provision at the center of the case, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. It also puts the nation's highest court, with a 6-...
MORE: Trump asks US Supreme Court to keep him on ballot in 14th Amendment case Trump's case: Section 3 does not apply to him Section 3 refers to an "officer of the United States" and Trump was not one. There are two oaths in the Constitution and he took the presidential oath, whic...
A delay until the end of June, however, would bump the start of the trial until well into the fall. Worse still, the justices could even send the case back to lower courts to consider Trump’s fatuous fallback position — that even if a president is not categorically immune f...