Will Scharf, a member of former President Donald Trump’s legal team representing him in his presidential immunity case, told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on Thursday afternoon that he’s “excited” for the Supreme Court to render its decision after the two sides participated in oral arguments that morning. “We felt this morning’s arguments went really well. And I say that primarily because it was clear that the justices were deeply concerned about the future of the office of the president, about the future of the American presidency,” remarked Scharf at the outset of his conversation with MacCallu ..read more

Brian Zak/Sipa Press via AP Images Politico’s lengthy report on a “cold war” between President Joe Biden and the New York Times has earned some major pushback from the latter. Among the splashy revelations in Thursday’s Politico report is the suggestion that Times publisher AG Sulzberger has “quietly” encouraged negative stories about Biden, including on his age and poll numbers, as retaliation over the president not agreeing to an interview. The claim was cited to an unnamed Times reporter. The Times responded to the allegation with a lengthy statement on Thursday, first reported on by Sema ..read more

CNN correspondent Elie Honig appeared shocked by the number of apparent violations by former President Donald Trump of his gag order in his New York criminal trial. Judge Juan Merchan placed a gag order on the Republican nominee in his hush money criminal trial preventing him from criticizing witnesses, members of the court, and their families. Prosecutors on Thursday accused Trump of violating the order on four additional occasions. Merchan, who is expected to make a ruling soon on previous violations, could hold Trump in contempt and impose penalties ranging from issuing a fine to ordering i ..read more

The former publisher of the National Enquirer, David Pecker, was on the stand again at Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Thursday and testified under oath that Trump personally asked him how the payments to “our girl” were going. Pecker, whose infamous tabloid helped cook up fake stories about Trump’s opponents in 2016, was also part of the catch-and-kill scheme to keep damaging stories out of the media during the election. Pecker told the court that he met with Trump on Jan. 6, 2017, two weeks before his inauguration about the payments to former Playboy model Karen McDougal that concealed th ..read more

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used President Joe Biden’s “the former guy” nickname for former President Donald Trump during the final minutes of a Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s claim of “absolute immunity.” Biden first used the expression at a CNN town hall just weeks into his presidency, and it quickly became a nickname among administration officials and others as a way of avoiding using Trump’s name. Justice Jackson invoked the nickname during the final minutes of the immunity hearing as she asked attorney Michael Dreeben to weigh in on the notion that administrations have an interest in ..read more

Fox News contributors Leo Terrell and Jonathan Turley torched D. John Sauer, the lawyer who represented Trump in his presidential immunity case at the Supreme Court on Thursday, for passing on the opportunity to rebut the arguments of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team and get in the last word during oral argument on America Reports. “The one critique I would have against the Trump attorney. You never, never, never, never, never, never, never waive a rebuttal argument,” submitted Terrell during a panel discussion. “And I heard that, when he did that, I was shocked. You always have the last ..read more

After Thursday’s arguments at the Supreme Court on whether or not a president should have full immunity from criminal prosecution, CNN’s Anderson Cooper turned to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin for some historical context and played her a famous clip of the late former President Richard Nixon. The quote came from the 1977 interview conducted by broadcasting icon David Frost after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace following the Watergate scandal. Cooper played a short clip, but here is the extended exchange: Frost: So, what, in a sense, you’re saying is that there are certain situations ..read more

Twitter Texas Rangers pitcher Max Scherzer floated the idea of relegating umpires to the minor leagues in response to a recent wave of controversial calls. Talk about “robot umps” has been reignited as a result of a series of poor officiating performances. In additional to infamous ump Angel Hernandez continuing to make headlines for the wrong reasons, this season has also seen botched game-ending calls and a manager getting ejected for not saying anything. As a result, many baseball fans have urged the league to automate the position. While on a rehab assignment with Round Rock Express in T ..read more

American democracy is hanging in the “balance” as the Supreme Court weighs arguments in Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case, MSNBC guest Eddie Glaude declared on Thursday. The author and Princeton University professor was part of a panel reacting to morning arguments made before the Supreme Court in which the former president’s lawyers claimed he possessed absolute immunity as president amid his ongoing legal woes and dozens of criminal charges. During the Thursday panel discussion, Glaude took a moment to step away from vote predictions and analysis of legal arguments and warned, “we’re ..read more

Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany argued that former President Donald Trump should be “feeling quite good” after oral arguments in his presidential immunity case on Thursday. “So this was huge, and this was the thrust of what we heard today. If I’m former President Trump and I watch this, I’m actually feeling quite good about what I learned about, let’s say, Justices Kavanaugh, what I learned about Alito, what I learned about Thomas. And I would add to that list Gorsuch,” began McEnany. “And here’s why: They both brought up — Kavanaugh and Gorsuch — and it was unclear where they stood before this mom ..read more