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Before the ink was dry on the Supreme Court’s extreme presidential immunity opinion, former President Donald Trump launched a Hail Mary to derail state cases — but it won’t work, writes Norman Eisen.
Many of the victims and the families of those who were attacked in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the Capitol are sharing their frustration and anger with the Supreme Court.
The opinion could hamstring all four criminal cases Trump has faced, legal experts say, leaving prosecutors in several — if not all of them — unable to proceed.
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is expected to use Monday’s historic Supreme Court decision granting him partial presidential immunity to attack the evidence against him in all four of his criminal cases,
T he U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to delay Donald Trump 's sentencing for his hush money criminal conviction until after the November election. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's petition is asking the high court to remove the gag order that Judge Juan M.
The U.S. Supreme Court's divisions deepened over its nine-month term that culminated this week with a ruling powered by its 6-3 conservative majority granting former President Donald Trump substantial criminal immunity for actions taken in office.
Donald Trump wants to have the White House takeover the Justice Department's investigations and the Supreme Court immunity decision supports that.
The postponement sets the sentencing for Sept. 18 at the earliest, if it happens at all, since Trump's lawyers are demanding the conviction be tossed.
The Supreme Court immunity ruling puts Trump in a favorable position ahead of the election in November.
The Missouri Attorney General petitioned the United States Supreme Court Wednesday to file a complaint against the State of New York over Donald Trump’s recent criminal conviction - in part arguing the state infringed upon the right of Missouri voters to hear from a presidential candidate.
The court’s extension of presidential immunity to evidence of official acts, no matter how personal the charged conduct, gave Trump a lifeline in lieu of a sentence.
Former President Donald Trump asked a judge in New York this week to factor the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity into his hush money trial with the aim of having his conviction tossed out.
Sentencing rescheduled to Sept. 18 as Trump’s legal team seeks to overturn conviction under new immunity ruling.
Following the Supreme Court's immunity decision, the judge in Donald Trump's hush money case faces the task of applying the ruling to Trump's criminal conviction.
It sets ground rules for legal despotism, which is the antithesis of democracy. A University of Chicago constitutional scholar explains the long-term consequences of the Court's decision.
Donald Trump won big this term at the Supreme Court. In two blockbuster cases for Trump, the court squashed efforts to knock the former president off the 2024 ballot and granted him broad immunity from a pending criminal case accusing him of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results.
Anyone who expected the Supreme Court to give clear guidance on the extent to which former President Donald Trump can be tried (and tried and tried) for the crimes of which he has been accused must surely be disappointed with the complexity of what the justices decided in Trump v.
The Supreme Court suggests a president's conversations with Justice Department officials are out of bounds for prosecutors -- even when he may be pressing them about investigations of his rivals.
This commentary originally appeared in The Conversation. The United States Supreme Court has handed former president Donald Trump what may be the most favorable legal decision he could have reasonably hoped for in his fight against federal prosecution for his attempts to reverse the 2020 election outcome.
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The judge overseeing Donald Trump's New York criminal trial approved a delay of Trump's sentencing after his lawyers asked for more time to argue how the Supreme Court's immunity decision
A New York judge agreed Tuesday to delay the criminal sentencing of former President Donald Trump in the state hush money case after Trump claimed the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision absolves him.
A new report from The Washington Post, citing sources close to the department, said that prosecutors plan to pursue cases with a deadline of Inauguration Day in January, in keeping with the Supreme Court’s ruling that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted.
Sentencing was postponed at least two months as Trump's lawyers argue that the trial should have never happened
The Supreme Court immunity ruling has complicated the federal election case against Donald Trump. Joyce Vance and Marcus Childress join Alicia Menendez to discuss.
The US Supreme Court ruling that a former president has broad immunity from criminal prosecution has thrown a legal wrench into the cases facing Donald Trump.
Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled on Donald Trump’s petition for absolute immunity, and it went just about as expected. The six conservative justices ruled that the president has broad immunity when it comes to official acts,
Kristy Greenberg, former federal prosecutor, talks with Alex Wagner about why the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity is not likely to get Donald Trump out of his convictions in his New York criminal trial,
Former President Donald Trump's partial victory on presidential immunity at the Supreme Court did more than help him out on his legal problems, former Trump administration Justice Department officials warn — it could also embolden him to use the police state to crack down on his political enemies should he be elected.
Here’s a look at Trump’s cases and how the Supreme Court decision could affect what comes next. The Washington case focuses on Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election after he lost to President Joe Biden.
The Supreme Court raised the bar for prosecuting former President Donald Trump, ruling that he has immunity for some of his conduct as president in his federal election interference case but maybe not for other actions,
If you hadn’t read the news in four years — or just arrived from another galaxy — the Supreme Court’s de facto grant of immunity to Donald Trump for his
Republicans are hailing the Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have immunity from prosecution for official acts as a major victory over government “weaponization” as the decision deals a blow to special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of former President Trump over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court immunity ruling puts Trump in a favorable position ahead of the election in November. Yahoo Finance
The president enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority,” and not everything the president does is official. The president is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the president’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the executive branch under the Constitution.
The timing of such a hearing will be consequential, with Trump’s campaign to return to the White House reaching a fever pitch and his rematch against Joe Biden in the background. It will likely be the only chance for voters to see the government’s best evidence before they go to the polls.
The Supreme Court is now in recess after making an unprecedented ruling on presidential immunity, drawing pushback from the likes of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden. Constitutional law professor Natalie Gomez-Velez joins PIX11 to break down Monday’s ruling by the Supreme Court and how this could impact the legal
Judge delays Trump’s hush money sentencing until at least September after high court immunity ruling
In a major reprieve for former President Donald Trump, sentencing for his hush money convictions was postponed Tuesday until at least September — if ever
With Donald Trump's sentencing in his New York hush money case delayed until September following Tuesday's decision by Judge Juan Merchan, the judge now faces the task of applying the Supreme Court's new test for the limits of presidential immunity to the former president's criminal conviction.
Plus: President Biden to meet Wednesday with Democratic governors. Rudy Giuliani loses law license after court says he lied about 2020 election.
The news comes a day after a Supreme Court ruling that granted broad immunity protections to former presidents.