D. John Sauer, the lawyer tasked with arguing that former President Donald Trump has immunity from the federal charges leveled against him for his actions in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, told the Supreme Court that Trump had the “right” to back fraudulent electors to try to secure a second term in office on Thursday. The claim came after Justice Samuel Alito asked Sauer if the president is immune from prosecution for unlawful acts if they are committed by the president in his official capacity. “I’m sure you’ve thought of lots of hypotheticals where a president could say ..read more

  (left AP Photo/Evan Vucci, right Brian Zak/Sipa Press via New York Times)   There is a cold war of sorts between President Joe Biden and the New York Times, according to a new lengthy Politico report that features more than a few splashy details. The report by Eli Stokols, based on two dozen interviews, details an increasingly tense relationship between Times staffers and the White House. Many in the White House, according to the report, see November as an “existential” choice between the president and Donald Trump and have taken more issue with how the Times portrays both candid ..read more

Ambra Battilana Gutierrez via Instagram Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 2015, slammed the justice system in response to his sex crimes conviction being overturned by the New York Court of Appeals on Thursday. “If the DA had taken my case seriously in 2015, we wouldn’t be here,” Gutierrez told Mediaite in response to the news. “This is an on-going failure of the justice system – and the courts – to take survivors seriously and to protect our interests.” In 2015, when Gutierrez was a 22-year-old model, she met the then-powerful movie mogul ..read more

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson hit Trump attorney John Sauer with a fairly devastating question during a Supreme Court hearing on former President Donald Trump’s claim of “absolute immunity.” Sauer is the attorney who argued at an appeals court hearing that a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival and not face prosecution unless he were impeached and convicted first. Trump lost that appeal unanimously, and on Thursday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Trump’s appeal of that appeal — including Sauer’s assassination theory. Seconds after that stunning exchan ..read more

Chief Justice John Roberts grilled former President Donald Trump’s attorney over his argument that presidential immunity could cover bribery. During oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Thursday, the Republican nominee’s lawyer, John Sauer, claimed that a president could not be charged with bribery due to presidential immunity. Trump’s legal counsel has argued for months that the former president cannot be charged with alleged crimes he committed while in office due to the statute. The immunity arguments paused Trump’s criminal trial in DC over his actions on January 6th, 2021. Roberts press ..read more

Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Trump lawyer John Sauer had a stunning exchange over whether presidential immunity covers the assassination of political rivals during Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing. Sauer had previously argued that under certain circumstances, a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival and not face prosecution, at an appeal hearing on former President Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity. This topic came up again during the Supreme Court hearing: SOTOMAYOR: Now I think. What? And then your, answer, below, I’m going to give you a chance ..read more

BRProud An LSU baseball got hit in the head by a home run ball traveling 109 miles per hour and somehow managed to give an interview right after. In the bottom of the eighth inning of Tuesday’s game against Nicholls, LSU third baseman Tommy White hit a three-run homer to left field. On the broadcast, a man could be seen trying to catch the home run ball with a glove. Unfortunately for him, the ball hit him square on the forehead. He didn’t go down, but he did hold his head in pain. Shortly after, BRProud reporter Pat Timlin entered the stands to hear from the man himself. “I mean, it was on ..read more

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson warned that former President Donald Trump is “willing to go to whatever ends necessary” to avoid prison. Cassidy Hutchinson is the former top aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows who provided bombshell testimony to the January 6 committee. Hutchinson was a guest on Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, after news broke that Meadows and six others were indicted in Arizona. But anchor Kaitlan Collins also asked Hutchinson about Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s ..read more

Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial argued Thursday morning that he had committed four more violations of the gag order in the last three days. Trump is facing 34 felony counts for falsifying business records regarding alleged hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election — a historic first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president. The ex-president has made headlines for reportedly falling asleep repeatedly (at least four times so far) and his ongoing grumbling about the gag order imposed by Judge Juan Me ..read more

Laurence Fox arriving at the Royal Courts Of Justice, central London, for his libel trial. Mr Fox is being sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal, also known as Colin Seymour. Fox is countersuing the pair along with actress Nicola Thorp. Picture date: Wednesday November 22, 2023. (Press Association via AP Images) Laurence Fox has been ordered to pay out £180,000 in libel damages to two individuals “paedophiles” on social media. In January Fox lost his libel case over defamatory comments made during a Twitter spat involving supermarket Sainsbury’s support for Bla ..read more