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Scott Eisen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s request to dismiss E. Jean Carroll’s original defamation claim against him, ruling his arguments lacked merit. Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, sued Trump in November 2019 over comments he made shortly after Carroll publicly accused him […]
Scott Eisen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge seemed disinclined on Tuesday to allow former President Donald Trump to move his criminal prosecution in New York into federal court. “The act for which the president has been indicted does not relate to anything under the color of his office,” Judge Alvin Hellerstein said toward the […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s federal case on Monday denied a request from prosecutors who want to keep secret the names of 84 potential witnesses that the former president and his associate Walt Nauta would be barred from speaking to about the facts of their case. U.S. District Judge Aileen […]
Tetra Images/Getty Images (ARKANSAS) — A federal district court judge on Tuesday struck down an Arkansas law that banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The judge said the law violates the constitutional rights of transgender youth, their parents and their medical providers. “I’m so grateful the judge heard my experience of how this health care […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — It remains to be seen whether the judge assigned to Donald Trump’s federal case, who was appointed by him three years ago, can act independently in light of her past rulings related to the former president, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Whitehouse, D-R.I., likened U.S. District Judge Aileen […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A judge has set an early 2024 trial date for writer E. Jean Carroll’s original 2019 defamation case against former President Donald Trump. Judge Lewis Kaplan set a trial date of Jan. 15, 2024, for the case, in which Carroll claims then-President Trump defamed her in 2019 when he said […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As former President Donald Trump was being arraigned in Florida Tuesday on charges related to his handling of classified documents after leaving office, a federal judge in New York dealt him another legal blow. Judge Lewis Kaplan allowed writer E. Jean Carroll to amend a pending defamation lawsuit against Trump […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (FORT PIERCE, Fla.) — The summons sent to former President Donald Trump and his legal team late Thursday indicates that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will be assigned to oversee his case, at least initially, according to sources briefed on the matter. Cannon’s apparent assignment would add yet another unprecedented wrinkle to a […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Neither former President Donald Trump nor Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg object to Judge Alvin Hellerstein presiding over a matter related to Trump’s criminal prosecution, the two sides indicated Monday in separate letters to the court. Hellerstein revealed last week that he had once performed legal work for a Trump […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Neither former President Trump nor Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg object to Judge Alvin Hellerstein presiding over a matter related to Trump’s criminal prosecution, the two sides indicated Monday in separate letters to the court. Hellerstein revealed last week that he had once performed legal work for a […]
