Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and his company told an appeals panel Thursday that it should throw out a judge's ruling that Trump must fork over hundreds of millions in profit obtained through fraud, plus millions more in interest. At least two of the justices from the five-justic...
At first Trump appeared slumped in his chair, but when the judge asked for him to be officially arraigned, the former president sat up a bit and crossed his arms. At one point during the arraignment, the magistrate judge asked Trump's lawyers Todd Blanch...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump were back in court Monday as a federal judge considers radically conflicting proposals for a trial date in the case accusing him of working to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the ru...
Donald Trump's lawyers have asked a New York judge to suspend an $83.3 million defamation verdict against the former president, saying there was a “strong probability” that it would be reduced on appeal, if not eliminated.
Donald Trump's lawyers are telling a federal appeals court that he was acting within his role as president when he pressed claims about "alleged fraud and irregularity" in the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court has previously held that presidents are immune from civil liability for official acts, and Trump’s lawyers have for months argued that that protection should be extended to criminal prosecution as well. Lower courts have, so far, rejected Trump’s novel claim that ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge presiding over his election subversion case in Washington to recuse herself, saying her past public statements about the former president and his connection to the Jan. 6, 2021
Jackson and liberals have tough questions for challengers: Another sign that the court was leaning toward Trump’s position: Even some of the liberal justices posed difficult questions to the lawyers representing his challengers. Notably, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Joe Biden nominee, said th...
Trump speaks in court: Trump, who was in court today, spoke from the defense table for roughly five minutes, saying the “financial statements are perfect” and called the case a “witch hunt” before the judge cut him off. Trump’s attorneys have already signaled they plan to appeal the...
Trump decided not to appear in person for the Supreme Court’s hearing today, unlike some of his other criminal and civil cases where Trump has appeared in person with the belief that he is his own best line of defense and that it helps him politically. Trump’s legal problems have proven...