Trump’s Supreme Court supermajority didn’t help him steal the election in 2020 — but now, justices are laying down his 2024 victory path.
A landmark case that could decide whether the former president can run in November's election heard arguments from both sides of the case as Trump appeals the decision. TheSupreme Courthas a 6-3 conservative majority, after Mr Trump appointed three justices while in the White Hou...
The court also could extend the delay while it hears arguments on the immunity issue. In that event, the schedule the justices set could determine how soon a trial might begin, if indeed they agree with lower court rulings that Trump is not immune from prosecution. ...
The arguments in the Trump Supreme Court case Trump's appeal pushes the Supreme Court into new territory, as it has never before ruled directly on the application of the 155-year-old clause. His lawyers are asking the justices to consider a number of issues, including whether the provision ...
"They decide novel constitutional questions to insulate this court and [Trump] from future controversy," Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson wrote. The trio of justices called aspects of the majority's decision "gratuitous." By resolving unsettled questions about federal enforcement of Section 3, they wrot...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a handful of cases related to the 2020 election, including disputes from Pennsylvania that had deeply divided the justices just before the election.
Trump remains on the primary ballot as the lower-court ruling disqualifying him has been put on hold pending Supreme Court action. If the justices do conclude Trump is ineligible for public office, then any votes cast for him wouldn’t count. The high court’s decision to hear the...
While it appears the majority of Supreme Court justices are not willing to dismissspecial counsel Jack Smith’s caseoutright, they may punt it back to lower courts, which would delay a trial and hand a strategic win to former President Donald Trump, CNN chief legal correspondent Paula Reid sai...
Trump had asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block a scathing and unanimous decision from the DC Circuit that flatly rejected his claims of immunity from election subversion charges brought by the special counsel. Smith argued in his own brief that Trump had not met the standard to pause ...
“Why didn't they put the word president in the very enumerated list in section three? The thing that really is troubling to me is I totally understand your argument, but they were listing people that were barred, and president is not there.” A lot of the pushback from the justices ...