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The court’s conservative majority, ruled that the president has at least presumptive immunity for all official acts.
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,
Norman Eisen cast doubt that the Supreme Court's immunity ruling would substantially impact his New York and Georgia cases.
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 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.
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.
Justice Department officials who served under Trump during his first term fear that the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling makes it easier for him to use the DOJ against his enemies if he is re-elected president.
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.
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.
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.
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,
Stephen King has called out three conservative Supreme Court Justices for allegedly considering former President Donald Trump to be "above the law" in a viral social media post. King, a frequent Trump critic and the author of classic horror novels like It and The Shining,
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.
The court's extension of presidential immunity to official acts, no matter how personal the charged conduct, gave Trump a lifeline in lieu of a sentence.
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.
Stephen King wades in again on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision over former president's immunity claim with a taunting tweet.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith suffered two major legal setbacks this week after the Supreme Court ruled against his efforts in two pending cases.
The US Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have some immunity from criminal charges over official conduct sets up a high-stakes “mini trial” later this summer over Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
Trump's lawyers are using a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity to try to overturn his hush money conviction
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.
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.
Judge Juan Merchan agreed to pause hush money sentencing until just weeks before the 2024 election over immunity argument.
The Supreme Court immunity ruling puts Trump in a favorable position ahead of the election in November.
As the case enters a new phase, experts remain skeptical that former President Donald Trump's 11th-hour effort to overturn his conviction will be successful.
The White House and Democrats are weighing options to respond to the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling. Former Investigative Counsel for the House January 6th Committee Marcus Childress and NBC News' Sahil Kapur join Ryan Nobles to discuss.
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.
Just as the Supreme Court was heading into its final arguments of what would become a dramatic and historic term, Justice Amy Coney Barrett issued a plea to her warring colleagues.
The writer is a science commentator. Amid a flurry of US Supreme Court activity — including this week’s granting of partial immunity to ex-president Donald Trump for acts carr
Special counsel Jack Smith plans to pursue his two criminal cases against former President Donald Trump through the election and even up until Inauguration Day if Trump wins the presidential race.
Justice Department officials will continue to pursue the federal criminal cases against Donald Trump past Election Day, even if he wins, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for any “official” act he took while he was president. Joy Reid does a deep dive into this decision and what it could mean for the far-right's plans for full autocracy in a second Trump presidency.
Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.
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.
Even before his big Supreme Court win, Trump promised to be 'dictator for one day.' Will the ruling embolden him further?
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Supreme Court issued three more opinions on Friday, marking the first time the justices have weighed in on the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The folks at the Jerry insurance app took a hard look at NHTSA data on holiday fatal crashes and turned up some sobering (literally) facts about Fourth of July driving.