Court Battles
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed an attorney for former President Trump on a line of questioning by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the former president’s presidential immunity case at the Supreme Court Thursday. “What are the circumstances where ordering a military coup is an official act of the presidency?” Collins said, referring to a…
Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb believes it's highly unlikely that the federal election case involving former President Trump will go to trial before the November election. He expressed that this would benefit Trump as the case would not be tried before the election.
A majority of Americans believe former President Trump is being treated differently than most criminal defendants in his hush money case, according to a new CNN poll. Trump’s hush money trial began last Monday, marking the first criminal trial of a former American president. He has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records…
Former President Trump is busy in court on Thursday as his trial for hush money in New York clashes with arguments over presidential immunity before the Supreme Court. David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, is expected to testify again in Manhattan where he will continue providing a timeline of his agreement to bury…
Alina Habba, an attorney for former President Trump, signaled she does not have high hopes for the former president’s success in the New York hush money trial. “But I don’t have hopes really that high at this moment that the New York courts will do the right thing, that the jury will do the right…
Hillary Clinton cautioned on Wednesday that access to abortion care could be further at risk after oral arguments in a Supreme Court case over an Idaho law limiting abortion. The court seemed uncertain if a federal law ensuring access to lifesaving care included access to abortion care when necessary, though the justices…
Michael Cohen, who used to work for President Trump and then became his enemy, announced on Wednesday that he will stop making any comments about Trump until after he has given evidence in Trump's criminal trial in New York. “Even though I am not the one who has been ordered to stay silent, I will not post anything about Donald on my X (previously known as…
A divided Supreme Court seemed skeptical that Idaho’s strict abortion ban conflicts with a federal emergency care law, but there appeared to be a split by gender as well as ideology during the nearly two hours of argument. The four female justices, including conservative Amy Coney Barrett, strongly opposed Idaho’s assertion that…
Business groups, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to contest its decision to ban noncompete agreements. On Tuesday, the FTC voted 3-2 to approve the rule prohibiting new noncompete agreements. The rule also mandates that employers invalidate existing noncompete agreements and inform current and former employees that they will not be…
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