Well, we’re now a few days into Donald Trump’s election fraud trial in New York City, and we are already learning a lot. Unfortunately, none of it is very surprising. For instance, it looks like our media has settled into calling it a “hush money” trial, even if it most assuredly is a helluva lot more than that. In raw, legal terms, Trump is charged with violating New York Election Law, which prohibits conspiracies to promote a candidate’s election through unlawful means, and/or concealing a crime by falsifying business records. Thus, fraud. But hushhhh money … flows from the lips like a whi ..read more

Donald Trump may have successfully delayed his federal election subversion case to avoid a pre-election trial, but the judge in that case has a "silver lining" option that would still allow Special Counsel Jack Smith to present evidence to the American public, according to a former federal prosecutor. MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance posted about Trump's Supreme Court hearing on his claim for presidential immunity on her Substack on Thursday. Toward the end of that write-up, Vance provides an option for Judge Chutkan to continue despite indefinite delays. "We don’t know for certain where Chie ..read more

E. Jean Carroll beat Donald Trump. Twice. And she is confident that the jury empaneled in his criminal hush money trial is going to meet the moment. "I think that it’s a New York jury, they’re the smartest in the world, with all political backgrounds," she told TIME while appearing at the 2024 TIME100 in the city. "They will make the right decision." ALSO READ: ‘Fraudulent’: Trump tormentor Lincoln Project loses big money in cybertheft scheme The jurors are tasked with a historic verdict to determine if the former president falsified business records to pay for the silence of two women who a ..read more

Legal experts spent the day pointing out how devastating witness testimony was Thursday against Trump in his first criminal trial, but at night the former president suggested the case "completely faller apart." Trump said he had a "BIG DAY IN COURT(S) TODAY," likely referencing the hush-money cover up trial as well as the Supreme Court oral arguments regarding his claim of complete immunity for presidents. The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared to most experts as open to giving Trump some form of immunity, but likely not what he seeks. Regarding the hush money case, Trump said ..read more

Donald Trump's absolute immunity case had its day in the highest court in the land on Thursday and despite the Supreme Court justices' overall dim reaction — his attorneys are still thundering with absolute certainty they're right. Attorney William Scharf, a Republican candidate in Missouri's attorney general race, appeared opposite CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins to bang former president's drum that he should be untouchable in his official acts as president. He attempted to tamp down on what he called a "parade of horribles," referring to some of the hypotheticals that have been raised by Suprem ..read more

Donald Trump on Thursday was ridiculed on social media after saying in a Newsmax interview that he never incarcerated Hillary Clinton while he was the president simply because he felt it would be "horrible" to do it. Trump, who had a busy day being involved in a criminal hush money cover-up trial as well as a Supreme Court criminal immunity hearing on the same day, later did a phone interview on the right-wing network, Newsmax. In part of the interview, Trump was cut off by the host before he could violate the gag order in the hush money criminal case. Trump also claimed he didn’t want to pu ..read more

Former President Donald Trump again tried to talk smack about the people involved in his criminal trial in Manhattan during an interview on the far-right Newsmax channel, when interviewer Greg Kelly cut him off for his own legal safety. The former president faces charges of felony business fraud, for allegedly arranging hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal a reputed affair between them from voters in the 2016 presidential election. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has claimed this was effectively an election interference scheme; Trump denies any wrongdoing and st ..read more

Defendant Donald Trump sat through another day of the prosecution's witness, National Enquirer head honcho David Pecker, continue to lay out how the supermarket tabloid served as an aggressive sentry to prevent Trump's alleged sultry secrets from seeing the light of day, and also as a political pitbull against political adversaries. Conservative lawyer George Conway went on CNN to say that the testimony was especially "damaging" and "damning" against the former president because it provided a map on how Trump used the the publication and money to illegally influence the 2016 presidential ele ..read more

A state judge in Arizona has rejected a lawsuit by a right-wing group seeking to remove the procedure for counties to install unstaffed ballot drop boxes, Democratic voting rights attorney Marc Elias reported on Thursday. The lawsuit was brought by the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, along with Mary Kay Ruwette, a retired HR specialist from Yavapai County who sued in her capacity as a voter. "The lawsuit alleges that because using drop boxes to drop off mail-in ballots has not been authorized by the Arizona Legislature, it is an illegal method of voting under Arizona law," explained Democracy ..read more

The conservative Supreme Court wants to hand Donald Trump immunity, but it has to get around a past Nixon case to do so, former Richard Nixon White House counsel John Dean said on Thursday afternoon. Dean, who has previously mused about the ex-president's legal issues, took to social media following a bombshell Supreme Court hearing that saw Trump's lawyer arguing that a president may be able to order the assassination of an opponent without being held liable criminally. "Today’s SCOTUS argument on Trump’s criminal immunity revealed an activist conservative majority that wants to provide pre ..read more