legal proceedings
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Judge in Trump’s classified files case agrees to redact witness names
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump granted a request by prosecutors on Tuesday aimed at protecting the identities of potential government witnesses. But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon refused to categorically block witness statements from being disclosed, saying there was no basis for such…
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Donald Trump’s lawyers ask appeals court to lift gag order in hush money criminal case
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NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York appeals court Tuesday to lift the former president’s gag order just days before the start of his hush-money criminal trial. Trump’s lawyers argue that banning Trump from making public statements about jurors, witnesses and others connected to the case is an unconstitutional prior restraint…
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Prosecutors urge Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claims in election subversion case
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Special counsel Jack Smith’s team urged the Supreme Court on Monday night to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The brief from prosecutors was submitted just over two weeks before…
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Judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to delay hush-money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity
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NEW YORK (AP) – A judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan declared the request untimely, ruling that Trump’s lawyers had “myriad opportunities” to…
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Prosecutors in Trump’s classified documents case sharply rebuke judge’s unusual and ‘flawed’ order
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal prosecutors chided the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Florida, warning her off potential jury instructions that they said rest on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise.” In an order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had asked prosecutors and defense lawyers to file proposed jury instructions for…
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Judge expands Trump’s gag order after ex-president’s social media posts about judge’s daughter
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NEW YORK (AP) – The judge in Donald Trump’s April 15 hush-money criminal trial declared his family off-limits to the former president’s rancor on Monday, expanding a gag order days after Trump assailed his daughter and made false claims about her on social media. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan amended a week-old ban on Trump…
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Trump attends wake of slain New York officer, calls for ‘law and order,’ to show contrast with Biden
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MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) – Donald Trump attended Thursday’s wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and called for “law and order,” as part of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s attempt to show a contrast with President Joe Biden and focus on crime as part of his…
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Judge issues gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting on witnesses, others in hush money case
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NEW YORK (AP) – A New York judge Tuesday issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting publicly about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial, citing the former president’s history of “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating” remarks about people involved in his legal cases. Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision, echoing…
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Trump’s social media company approved to go public, potentially netting former president billions
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NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump is returning to the stock market. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded shell company, approved a deal to merge with the former president’s media business in a Friday vote. That means Trump Media & Technology Group, whose flagship product is social networking site Truth Social, will…
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Supreme Court rejects appeal by former New Mexico county commissioner banned for Jan. 6 insurrection
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was kicked out of office over his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Former Otero County commissioner Couy Griffin, a cowboy pastor who rode to national political fame by embracing then-President…
