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Following the Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity, Donald Trump's lawyers have the judge overseeing his classified documents case to delay the proceedings.
Former President Donald Trump and his legal team asked the federal judge overseeing the case involving his handling of sensitive documents to pause proceedings.
Attorneys for former President Trump are now seeking to use the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision to help him in his criminal case in Florida over mishandling of classified documents.
Donald Trump has asked to pause the federal prosecution over his alleged mishandling of classified information after the US Supreme Court ruled the former president was potentially immune from criminal charges related to official acts.
Rulings made by the Supreme Court in its recently concluded term are the result of a long game played by conservatives from the Reagan revolution.
Chief Justice Roberts often prefers to avoid partisan decisions with careful compromises. Not so with the Trump immunity ruling.
A year ago, the legal system seemed to be closing in on Donald Trump. Prosecutors painted a sweeping portrait of a president who allegedly tried to overturn the results of an election he knew he lost,
The Supreme Court immunity opinion managed to block Trump from being prosecuted for "official acts" even if he were to be convicted of impeachment and removed.
Donald Trump could be convicted again before the upcoming inauguration, even if he is elected, according to legal experts.
Ann, are celebrating that he and his fellow right-wing Supreme Court justices have made a king of our presidents, just when it seems more likely that Donald Trump could be restored to the throne. Also,
The court’s conservative majority, ruled that the president has at least presumptive immunity for all official acts.
Norman Eisen cast doubt that the Supreme Court's immunity ruling would substantially impact his New York and Georgia cases.
The Supreme Court made clear that its bombshell decision granting broad immunity to Donald Trump was intended in part to empower future presidents to make “energetic” and “vigorous” decisions without fear of criminal prosecution.
Monday’s 6-3 Supreme Court ruling giving immunity to Trump is dangerous. This is not the America I thought we would live in as we celebrate the Fourth of July.
The judge in Trump's hush money case has postponed sentencing until September 18, raising the chances that a prison term could continue into next year.
Former criminal defense attorney Andrew Cherkasky analyzes the potential effect of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity on former President Trump’s documents case on ‘The Story.’
The former president’s lawyers asked to freeze nearly all proceedings while they sort out whether the Supreme Court decision applies to charges focused on actions after he left the White House.
Trump's sentencing for his hush money conviction has been delayed while the possible impact of the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity is weighed.
Lawyers in the department do not believe the policy bars them from proceeding against a president-elect, according to the people familiar with the discussions.
For the most part, this criticism does not give the Supreme Court enough credit. In case after case, it has rightly emphasized the importance of turning to historical understandings in deciding constitutional cases rather than imposing modern policy views.
Former President Trump is turning to his social media platform to declare “total exoneration” after the Supreme Court ruled presidents have broad immunity.
Former President Trump made a new bid Friday to remove special counsel Jack Smith from the classified documents case in Florida, citing the Supreme Court's recent opinion on presidential immunity. Why it matters: The Supreme Court ruling was a partial victory for Trump,
For Donald F. McGahn II, the former White House counsel, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, sweeping anti-regulatory rulings are the big payoff of their drive to reshape the federal courts.
Former President Donald Trump urged a judge on Friday to pause most of the proceedings in his classified documents case in Florida, arguing that the Supreme Court‘s recent decision on presidential immunity must be factored into the case first.
As legal observers predicted, Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for a partial pause of the government’s classified documents case against the former president so she can weigh how it might be impacted by the Supreme Court’s fresh ruling on presidential immunity.
After the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on presidential immunity, Trump's legal team requests a pause in the classified documents case. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirshner, former chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign,
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.
Trump’s attorneys asked Judge Aileen Cannon to lay out a new schedule so they can pounce on the Supreme Court’s decision.
This result would be deeply disturbing to the nation’s founders. Nothing in the Constitution’s text or original public meaning supports these immunity rules.
Attorneys for Donald Trump asked a judge on Friday to pause his case on charges of mishandling top secret documents, citing a Supreme Court ruling that a former president has broad immunity from prosecution.
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.
B EFORE presenting her opinion in a sleeper case on July 1st, the final day of the Supreme Court’s term, Justice Amy Coney Barrett elicited chuckles in the courtroom. “Sorry,” she quipped, announcing the result in Corner Post v Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
Following the Supreme Court's landmark decision on presidential immunity, former President Donald Trump's lawyers on Friday asked the judge overseeing his classified documents case to delay the proceedings and reconsider two motions to dismiss the case in light of this week's immunity ruling.
Senior law enforcement officials have long viewed the two federal indictments against Trump -- the 45th president and the presumptive Republican nominee in this year's election -- as operating with potential time constraints.
Former President Trump has requested a partial pause in his classified documents in light of the Supreme Court’s decision that granted him immunity for official acts.
Donald Trump has asked to pause the prosecution over his alleged mishandling of classified information after the US Supreme Court ruled the former president was potentially immune from criminal charges related to official acts.
U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick suffered two strokes and died a day after the riots, during which he was assaulted and sprayed with a chemical irritant. His death has been connected to the attack by the Washington,
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared visibly perturbed as she complained last week about a Supreme Court ruling that curbed the powers of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ethics and legal experts warn that the Supreme Court has struck a serious blow to prosecutors’ ability to crack down on the abuse of power and public corruption. And that’s ringing alarm bells when Donald Trump,
Critics of the hugely important decision say the justices just decreed that presidents are "above the law," but others argue that leaders need to be shielded so they can properly run the country.
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.
Monday’s 6-3 Supreme Court ruling giving immunity to Trump is dangerous. This is not the America I thought we would live in as we celebrate the Fourth of July.
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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.