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Showing posts with label hush money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hush money. Show all posts
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Judge again rejects Trump’s bid to move criminal hush money case to federal court - POLITICO
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein is a blow to Trump’s attempt to effectively erase the prosecution altogether by suggesting it wrongly wrongly punished him for official acts he took as president during his first term. But Hellerstein concluded that Trump’s payments, routed through attorney Michael Cohen to Daniels, were entirely “private” conduct, not related to his presidency...
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Trump hush-money case sentencing postponed indefinitely
Merchan said in his decision that Trump's lawyers had to file their argument for dismissal by end of business on 2 December. Prosecutors have one week to respond...
Saturday, November 23, 2024
New York judge calls off next week’s Trump sentencing in hush money case - The Washington Post
It remained unclear whether New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan would sentence Trump for his 34 felony convictions before the president-elect takes office Jan. 20, but the schedule that was ordered Friday potentially leaves room for it. The judge's one-page order canceled next week's proceeding but did not schedule a new one or reference the possibility of a new date...
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Thursday, August 29, 2024
GOP Rep. Jim Jordan subpoenas company connected to daughter of judge in Trump hush money trial | CNN Politics
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan subpoenaed a company connected to the daughter of New York State Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan as Republicans continue to claim that her political work influenced how Merchan handled the hush money case against former President Donald Trump...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
NY Judge Makes MAJOR RULING on Trump SENTENCING
Judge Merchan has delayed the sentencing of Trump for his 34 felony convictions until 9/18 to give the parties time to fully brief the issue as to whether the new United States Supreme Court decision on immunity applies to Donald Trump’s criminal conduct BEFORE he was president, at all. Michael Popok of Legal AF explains why this is the right decision and that Trump will ultimately likely lose on the immunity issue
Friday, June 7, 2024
4 takeaways from polls on Trump’s guilty verdict - The Washington Post
Americans think the verdict was right and don't buy into Trump's conspiracy theories. And they've moved toward Biden — but by less than Democrats had hoped...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Speaker Mike Johnson to take on justice system following Donald Trump conviction
The plan, according to Johnson, includes using the appropriations process, legislation brought to the floor and Congress's oversight authority to take on the Justice Department...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
What the first polls after Trump's conviction show — and don't show
Analysis: Majorities agree with the verdict against Trump, but early national polling doesn't find that the race against Biden has been transformed...
Following guilty verdict, former Trump lawyer pans GOP conspiracy claim
Asked to respond to Scott's absurd claims, Tacopina, during an appearance on MSNBC, specifically said, "I sort of lost a lot of respect from what I just heard because he sounded so uneducated, unintelligent and made no sense at all."
Trump's former lawyer went on to say, "So to say that Joe Biden brought this case is one of the most ridiculous things I've heard. We know that's not the case, and even Trump's lawyers know that's not the case."…
Monday, June 3, 2024
Trump found guilty: 5 key aspects of the trial explained by a law professor
The Conversation U.S.' politics and society editor Amy Lieberman spoke with Gabriel J. Chin, a scholar of criminal law and procedure, to better understand the verdict.
Sunday, June 2, 2024
It's long past time for Christians to abandon the felon, Donald Trump.
Just a heads up - this one is sort of a rebuke.
Biden hits back at Trump’s ‘dangerous’ claim hush-money trial was rigged
The US president said: "It is reckless, it is dangerous, it is irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don't like the verdict. The US justice system has endured for nearly 250 years and is literally a cornerstone of America."
He added that the system and the justice it produced should be respected.
"And we should never allow anyone to tear it down, simple as that, that's America," Biden said.
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