AsRolling Stonereported at the time, a lawyer close to Trump said they were “literally popping champagne” bottles in response to the news. This is because, according to legal experts, the Supreme Court and its conservative supermajority rendered it extremely unlikely that the Smith trial will ...
Eight of the nine justices suggested that they were open to some of the arguments made by Jonathan Mitchell, Trump's lawyer at the Supreme Court.
During the first round of questioning on Tuesday, the president's personal attorney and a lawyer for the Justice Department, which is backing the president, asserted that the congressional subpoenas served no legislative purpose and were therefore invalid. They warned that upholding the subpoenas fro...
A nonprofit led by a lawyer for President Trump, Jay Sekulow, is asking the Supreme Court to...Lovelace, Ryan
April 8:The special counselfiles his briefto the Supreme Court, arguing that Trump's alleged scheme to subvert the transfer of presidential power was outside the duties of his office. "No presidential power at issue in this case entitles the president to claim immunity from the general federal...
“Please control your client,” the judge chastened the lawyer of the former president, according to Politico. Trump, who is currently facing 91 criminal charges in addition to civil lawsuits andongoing legal disputesregarding his eligibility to run for president again in 2024, was allowed to spe...
Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels. Trump later reimbursed him, and Trump’s company logged the reimbursements as legal expenses — concealing what they really were, prosecutors alleged. Trump has said the payments to Cohen were properly categorized as legal expenses for legal work. ...
- US President Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis reportedl Expand WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Sidney Powell and other lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump over $150,000 in sanctions the...
Michael Cohen leaves former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in New York.Credit: AP/Yuki Iwamura Cohen worked as Trump’s lawyer and fixer for many years, before Cohen’s 2018 federal prosecution...
Trump's lawyer John Sauer said James' office had contorted the so-called "continuing wrong doctrine" to "pretend that there's no statute of limitations at all." The doctrine allows law enforcement to consider a string of illegal conduct over time as one violation. ...