Steven Cheung, spokesman for the president-elect, called the latest decision a "direct violation of the Supreme Court's decision on immunity". Mr Trump has always denied a sexual encounter with ex-porn starStormy Daniels, but was convicted of falsifying business records over a $130,000 (£...
The appeals court in that case rejected Trump’s sweeping claims that presidential immunity shields him from liability, but left the door open for him to continue to fight, as the cases proceed, to try to prove that his actions were taken his official capacity as pre...
New York — President-elect Donald Trump's criminal conviction lives on, at least for another week. A New York judge on Tuesday deferred making an immediate decision on whether presidential immunity should have prevented jurors from seeing certain evidence at Trump's trial this spring — and if...
His defense team argued that the immunity US presidents have from civil lawsuits should extend to criminal charges. Prosecutors contended that Trump's argument would essentially put the US president above the law, violating foundational principles of the Constitution....
A judge has rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on the presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases.
The U.S. Supreme Courtis expected to make a decision on the matter soon. If the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Mr. Trump's favor, most of the efforts to keep him off the ballot - in Illinois, Colorado, Maine, and elsewhere - would likely be tossed out. ...
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that the court will unseal, on Friday, the redacted appendix from the immunity motion filed earlier this month by Smith that included new details about Trump and his allies' actions leading up to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. In ruling that t...
The defense has also sought to delay the trial until after the Supreme Court rules on Trump’s presidential immunity claims, which his lawyers say could apply to some of the allegations and evidence in the hush money case. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments April 25. Trump...
‘No more delays’: Judge denies Trump immunity claim in hush money case 05:20 Share this - Copied Lisa Rubin, MSNBC Legal Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with the breaking news that Judge Juan Merchan has denied the presidential immunity cl...
presidential immunity should have prevented jurors from seeing certain evidence at Trump's trial this spring, but he postponed his decision. Merchan said at the time he wanted to hear from prosecutors about how to proceed with the case, which entered uncharted terrain when Trump was reelected ...