Former President Donald Trump says federal courts better give him total immunity from criminal prosecution — or he’ll go after Joe Biden if he wins this year. “If I don’t get Immunity, then Crooked Joe Biden doesn’t get Immunity,” Trump wrote in an early-morning post on his social media site. Trump — the GOP frontrunner […]
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s latest legal battle will take place in a Washington courtroom on Tuesday as the former president attempts to quash his prosecution over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]
Donald Trump said he will be attending an appeals court hearing regarding the scope of his presidential immunity in Washington DC on Tuesday, in comments in a Truth Social post on Monday. “Of course I was entitled, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief, to Immunity,” Mr Trump said in the post. […]
There’s a beloved American axiom as old as the nation that “no one is above the law — not even the president.” Every generation or so, that gets tested in the courts, and it’s about to happen again. This week, former President Trump will ask a D.C. appellate court — and soon after, likely the […]
(Reuters) –Donald Trump said he will be attending an appeals court hearing regarding the scope of his presidential immunity in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, in comments in a Truth Social post on Monday. “Of course I was entitled, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief, to Immunity,” Trump said in the post. […]
President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus signed a new law on Thursday that gives him lifelong immunity from criminal prosecution and prevents opposition leaders living abroad from running in future presidential elections. The law theoretically applies to any former president and members of his or her family. In reality, it is only relevant to Mr Lukashenko, […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus signed a new law Thursday that gives him lifelong immunity from criminal prosecution and prevents opposition leaders living abroad from running in future presidential elections. The law theoretically applies to any former president and members of his or her family. In reality, it only is relevant […]
Special counsel Jack Smith urged an appeals court on Saturday to reject former President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismiss his federal election interference case on presidential immunity grounds. In a more-than-80-page filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Smith argued against Trump’s insistence that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution on […]
Special counsel Jack Smith’s office said democracy is threatened by former President Donald Trump’s claims that presidential immunity shields him from criminal prosecution after leaving the White House. In a Saturday court filing, Smith’s office carefully dissected Trump’s plea to the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, asking for the federal […]
Washington, D.C. — Special Counsel Jack Smith pressed his case that former President Donald Trump does not enjoy the protections of “presidential immunity” in the 2020 election conspiracy criminal case in an 82-page court document filed Saturday afternoon in D.C.’s federal court of appeals. Smith’s filing comes one day after an appeals court allowed a lawsuit […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal appeals court Saturday to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims that he is immune from prosecution, saying the suggestion that he cannot be held to account for crimes in office “threatens the democratic and constitutional foundation” of the country. The filing from Smith’s team was […]
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Saturday urged a federal appeals court to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he cannot face criminal charges for seeking to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the prosecution, argued in a court filing that nothing in […]