Nauta sat with his own defense lawyer, Stanley Woodward. Nauta is charged with Trump in Florida federal court for their allegedly hiding hundreds of classified national security documents that Trump took with him when he left the White House. Special Counsel Jack Smith is leading Trump's prosecuti...
Her nomination was slowed by the Republican majority in the United States Senate, but she was eventually confirmed in 1998. On the Second Circuit, Sotomayor heard appeals in more than 3,000 cases and wrote about 380 opinions. Sotomayor has taught at the New York University School of Law and...
told the White House days after Trump’s election that he was rescinding those intentions. (Senior status is when a judge serves in a semi-retired capacity, allowing them to still help out with cases while creating a vacancy for their
The new legal battle is the latest dispute between the Justice Department and the union, which sparred when the Trump administration required immigration judges to complete 700 cases annually to meet job performance standards. The government has said the annual case quota requirement is ai...
It’s not just judges and prosecutors in Trump’s current civil and criminal cases who have come under threat. Well before the current round of cases,Trump was attackingjudges, prosecutors, and even members of the jury. As Trump and his allies were losingover 60 casesin his attempts to ove...
President-elect Trump’s pardoning power is looming over cases involving Jan. 6 rioters, prompting some delays over his promise to grant clemency to supporters who stormed the Capitol in 2021.
The less shocking aspect is that twelve of those decisions included at least one Trump-appointed judge. Seven of those 12 cases were 2-1 decisions with a Trump appointee in the majority; an eighth case was a 6-4 decision by the entire Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, with five Trump-ap...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts clashed Wednesday in an extraordinary public dispute over the independence of America's judiciary, with Roberts bluntly rebuking the president for denouncing a judge who rejected hi
In the case of pending Trump nominees, reporters called each nominee or their representative to collect information on race, gender and birthdate. In eight cases where nominees declined to give their race, officials familiar with the information confirmed that all identified themselves as white males...
The Partisan Dimensions of Federal Preemption in the United States Courts of Appeals The first part is that preemption disputes seem to produce a large measure of judicial consensus. In the full universe of cases, there is only a slight difference between Republican and Democratic appointees: Republ...