WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from a courtroom last week by a judge angry over the former president’s behavior in a defamation case brought by a writer who accuses him of sexual abuse. His lawyer didn’t fare much better. Attorney Alina Habba was ordered to “sit down” after continuing in vain […]
Donald Trump doesn’t change. Judges do. Two weeks ago, a New York judge, Arthur Engoron, permitted Trump to personally deliver a closing argument in his civil fraud trial as long as he stuck to the facts and avoided a courtroom “campaign speech.” Trump bulldozed through the restrictions, repeated his familiar claim of a “political witch […]
Plans to draft 150 judges to run a new fast-track appeals system for Rwanda deportations have been unveiled. More than 100 staff have already been hired to support a new system hearing appeals against deportation orders, the justice secretary said. Last year’s Illegal Migration Act proposed the new courts to stop migrant appeals clogging up […]
A US court said Spain could keep a priceless painting looted by the Nazis from its Jewish owner. The decadeslong court battle has been watched closely as a landmark case in art restitution. One of the judges said she agreed with the decision but it still went against her “moral compass.” A priceless painting looted by […]
The last day of Donald Trump’s fraud trial set off a frenzy in New York Thursday morning, with a bomb squad called to the home of the New York judge overseeing the case and crowds of reporters and spectators packing the courtroom to see the trial’s end. Thursday was the last chance for Trump’s team […]
A US court said that Spain can keep a priceless painting looted by the Nazis from its Jewish owner. The decadeslong court battle has been watched closely as a landmark case in art restitution. One of the judges said she agreed with the decision but it still went against her “moral compass.” A priceless painting looted […]
Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial is back in session on Thursday for closing arguments after authorities responded to a bomb threat at the home of the judge who moved this week to prevent the former US president from delivering his own closing statements. Authorities responded to the threat at Arthur Engoran’s home on […]
NEW YORK — Donald Trump wants to personally deliver a closing argument during his civil fraud trial on Thursday, but his lawyer balked when presented with a lengthy set of preconditions on what the former president could say. The surprise last-minute request from Trump appeared to be dead Wednesday afternoon after the judge told Trump’s […]
Legal experts criticized former President Donald Trump’s legal team for arguing on Tuesday that presidential immunity covers political assassinations. Judge Florence Pan grilled Trump lawyer John Sauer on the presidential immunity claim during a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hearing. “Could a president who ordered Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival, who was […]
Donald Trump has attended court in Washington as federal appeal judges expressed deep scepticism that the former president is immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The panel of three judges, two of whom were appointed by President Joe Biden, also questioned whether they had jurisdiction […]
Donald Trump has returned for the first time in months to the federal courthouse in Washington as his lawyers argued to appeal judges that he is immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “To authorise the prosecution of a president for official acts would open a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is set to return for the first time in months to the federal courthouse in Washington as an appeals court hears arguments Tuesday on whether the former president is immune from prosecution on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The outcome of the arguments […]