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We have known since last week (thanks to reporting by Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer in The New York Times) that the big Republican elephant will not be in the room today when the U.S. Supreme Court takes the bench in Trump v. Anderson, about whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in excluding former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.
Trump is reportedly starting the day at Mar-A-Lago, then heading to Nevada this evening for … Read the rest
Colorado authorities, along with the FBI, are investigating possible threats against state Supreme Court justices, one week after the court barred former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot, Keith Coffman reports for Reuters. The Denver Police Department also said it was providing “extra patrols” around the homes of the justices. NBC News and other media outlets have since reported the emergence of violent rhetoric on right-wing online forums from Trump supporters aimed at the four Colorado … Read the rest
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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith to decide, without waiting for a federal appeals court to weigh in, whether former President Donald Trump can be tried on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Smith had asked the justices to act quickly to resolve the dispute over Trump’s immunity during the 2023-24 term, but the justices turned him down, in a brief unsigned order issued on … Read the rest
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The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.
On August 3, President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to criminal charges related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol and interfering with the results of the 2020 election. A day later, Trump posted on his Truth Social account that “the Supreme Court must intercede.”
Even … Read the rest
Some things stand out in your memory.
Working as a public defender requires a lot of sitting in courtrooms, waiting. The docket lists crawl along. The system does its best to dehumanize the defendants. You know a lot about your own client and his situation, but as you sit there, late on some Friday, everyone else tends to blur—to fade until they are reduced to a number on a list.
The prosecutor drones on; the judge sighs and shuffles his … Read the rest
On Wednesday former president Donald Trump sued his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for more than $ 500 million in a federal court in Miami. The civil lawsuit accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship by testifying as a key witness before a Manhattan grand jury, revealing “confidences” and “spreading falsehoods” which resulted in Trump being charged on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Looking backwards from 2023 to 1973, Trump has been involved in more than 4.000 … Read the rest
The Select House Committee investigating former President Donald Trump’s actions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol recommended several potential criminal charges against him on Monday, including obstruction of a congressional proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, inciting an insurrection and conspiracy to make a false statement as it referred him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution.
The referrals come after the committee released a 154-page executive summary just before the committee’s final report, expected to … Read the rest
The Jan. 6 Select Committee votes to subpoena Donald Trump as its last public session. Still photo via CNBC
After a series of eight public hearings during June and July, the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol held what was billed as the committee’s “closing arguments” on Donald Trump’s culpability, and the need to hold him accountable.
Wednesday’s session was a devastating denunciation of Trump, ending with a unanimous vote to subpoena relevant documents and … Read the rest