Before Trump's lawyers began their closing arguments, Justice Juan Merchan called the jury in and told them how the day would unfold. He said the defense will go first, as required under New York law. Prosecutors will follow with their closing arguments. Merchan said the lawyers' recollection...
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and his company told an appeals panel Thursday that it should throw out a judge's ruling that Trumpmust fork over hundreds of millionsin profit obtained through fraud, plus millions more in interest.At least two of the justices from the five-justice pa...
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Justice Department must make public an internal memo senior lawyers there prepared in 2019 about whether then-President Donald Trump’s actions investigated in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia amou...
Trump’s lawyers have long argued that some of the allegations are barred by the statute of limitations, contending that Engoron failed to comply with an Appellate Division ruling last year that he narrow the scope of the trial to weed out outdated allegations. The Appellate Division...
Trump's lawyers -- his private counsel, not the White House counsel -- told the court this week the case could "distract a President from his public duties to the detriment of not only the President and his office but also the Nation."If all of this sounds kind of familiar, there's ...
DENVER-Colorado lawyers seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for the White House again argued on Monday that his role in the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol runs afoul of the Constitution's insurrection clause, opening a hearing that could break new ground ...
He has a long history of discarding his lawyers. Former President Donald Trump, with attorney Todd Blanche (right) arrives at Manhattan criminal court in New York on May 10. | Pool photo by Curtis Means ByMeridith McGrawandJosh Gerstein ...
Trump's lawyershave also arguedthat Section 3 cannot be used to deny him access to the ballot, because it prohibits an individual from holding office, not from running or being elected. "The Court should put a swift and decisive end to these ballot-disqualification efforts, which threaten to...
to dismiss the charges brought against him. The former president's lawyers said he cannot be charged for actions he performed within the "outer perimeter" of his official duties, and argued that a president can only be prosecuted after he is impeached by the House and convicted by the Senat...
When he was sworn in as president, he did take an oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. But his lawyers have argued that the presidency is not an “officer of the United States,” and so, they say, Trump isn't covered by the disqualification provision at all — ev...