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Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A day after the special counsel’s office and President Donald Trump’s legal team filed dueling motions regarding a proposed protective order in the Jan. 6 case, the judge in the case has scheduled a hearing on the matter for Friday morning. The order from Judge Tanya Chutkan, filed Tuesday afternoon, […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (FORT PIERCE, Fla.) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case is raising questions about special counsel Jack Smith’s use of an out-of-district grand jury to conduct his probe. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is demanding answers from Smith on his office’s use of another grand jury to purportedly continue […]
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York on Monday rejected former President Donald Trump’s counterclaim against former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. Trump accused Carroll of defaming him with statements she made in media appearances following her successful defamation and battery lawsuit against him, which resulted in a […]
Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office via AP (SANTA FE, N.M.) — A New Mexico judge has denied “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez’s motion to dismiss the charges stemming from the fatal on-set shooting. Gutierrez was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was shot by actor Alec Baldwin on […]
ABC News (ATLANTA, Georgia) — A judge scheduled a hearing on former President Donald Trump’s motion to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. The motion also seeks to quash the special purpose grand jury report that gathered much of the […]
Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Wednesday filed paperwork asking a judge to order Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to take action and have the floating barrier in the Rio Grande removed. In a 21-page filing, attorneys for the DOJ have asked for the court to order two things: that the state remove the […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge has dealt a blow to former President Donald Trump’s push to indefinitely delay his classified documents trial. The former president will now stand trial in May of next year on charges that he mishandled classified material, according to a court filing Friday. Judge Aileen Cannon scheduled […]
Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to move his hush-money criminal case into federal court. “Trump has failed to show that the conduct charged by the Indictment is for or relating to any act performed by or for the President […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump’s request for a new trial in the defamation and battery case brought by E. Jean Carroll that resulted in a $5 million damage award. Trump had sought a new trial after a New York jury in May […]
Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images (MIAMI) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case did not rule from the bench during Tuesday’s pretrial hearing, but appeared skeptical of Trump’s lawyers’ arguments that he couldn’t get a fair trial while running for president. U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon said that she would make a […]