Special counsel Jack Smith and his legal team have entered the courtroom for today's arguments before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Smith is with his top prosecutor in the case, Thomas Windom, as well as Michael Dreeben, a former deputy solicitor general who recently joined Smith's ...
Although his legal team has secured substantial delays in those other cases, Trump is actually on a legal losing streak. And despite his outrageous public posturing and boastful claims in the court of public opinion, in an actual court of law, he is learning that he cannot defy legal gravity...
" echoing criticisms of the original gag order by Trump's legal team. Still, they said the former president has engaged in conduct that poses a dual "threat to the functioning of the criminal trial process." The judges wrote that Trump's public comments could...
According to two people who’ve recently spoken to Trump about the Supreme Court this year, the ex-president has repeatedly praised the conservative justices for being “very fair” to him, in the face of a torrent of legal action and criminal charges that he’s faced while trying to recap...
In asking Chutkan to step aside, the Trump legal team is relying on a familiar playbook. He tried unsuccessfully to get the judge removed from the hush-money case against him in New York state court, with his lawyers claiming that Judge Juan Manuel Merchan ...
The Times’reportadded, “The fact that the Justice Department sought a formal order for the investigators’ names suggests an increasing breakdown in trust between prosecutors investigating the documents case and Mr. Trump’s legal team.”
But Serafini said the timeline may be extended, particularly because discovery in this case involves classified documents, and it might not be possible to figure out how to provide those to the former president's legal team quickly. Trump attorneys who review the evidence will need security cleara...
Prosecutors will likely have some material — non-classified — ready to hand over to Trump’s legal team. The more difficult questions come down to how the government will sort out classified material relevant to the case, and how much of the records at issue end up being declassified f...
allows law enforcement to consider a string of illegal conduct over time as one violation.Sauer also raised many arguments long made by Trump and his legal team, in particular claiming that there were "no victims" and "no complaints" by banks and insurers at the center of the case. James'...
November presidential election. If he wins a second term in the White House, Trump could order the Justice Department to drop the federal prosecutions or, if convicted on federal charges before then, he could try to pardon himself, but this has never been done and may face a legal ...