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Justice Department officials who served under Trump during his first term fear that the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling makes it easier for him to use the DOJ against his enemies if he is re-elected president.
Trump's sentencing for his hush money conviction has been delayed while the possible impact of the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity is weighed.
Before the ink was dry on the Supreme Court’s extreme presidential immunity opinion, former President Donald Trump launched a Hail Mary to derail state cases — but it won’t work, writes Norman Eisen.
The opinion could hamstring all four criminal cases Trump has faced, legal experts say, leaving prosecutors in several — if not all of them — unable to proceed.
Trump's lawyers are using a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity to try to overturn his hush money conviction
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is expected to use Monday’s historic Supreme Court decision granting him partial presidential immunity to attack the evidence against him in all four of his criminal cases,
Donald Trump wants to have the White House takeover the Justice Department's investigations and the Supreme Court immunity decision supports that.
The US Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have some immunity from criminal charges over official conduct sets up a high-stakes “mini trial” later this summer over Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
The postponement sets the sentencing for Sept. 18 at the earliest, if it happens at all, since Trump's lawyers are demanding the conviction be tossed.
Lawyers in the department do not believe the policy bars them from proceeding against a president-elect, according to the people familiar with the discussions.
The Supreme Court immunity ruling puts Trump in a favorable position ahead of the election in November.
The court’s extension of presidential immunity to evidence of official acts, no matter how personal the charged conduct, gave Trump a lifeline in lieu of a sentence.
Judge delays Trump’s hush money sentencing until at least September after high court immunity ruling
Trump had been scheduled to face sentencing July 11, just before the Republicans' nominating convention, on his New York convictions on felony charges of falsifying business records.
Trump's team moved quickly to leverage the Supreme Court's ruling Monday, sending a letter to New York state Judge Juan Merchan asking to brief him on how it affects Trump’s fel
While the Supreme Court imbued the presidency with untold power, hobbled federal agency power and hollowed out the administrative
Former President Donald Trump asked a judge in New York this week to factor the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity into his hush money trial with the aim of having his conviction tossed out.
Sentencing rescheduled to Sept. 18 as Trump’s legal team seeks to overturn conviction under new immunity ruling.
It sets ground rules for legal despotism, which is the antithesis of democracy. A University of Chicago constitutional scholar explains the long-term consequences of the Court's decision.
This commentary originally appeared in The Conversation. The United States Supreme Court has handed former president Donald Trump what may be the most favorable legal decision he could have reasonably hoped for in his fight against federal prosecution for his attempts to reverse the 2020 election outcome.
Senior law enforcement officials have long viewed the two federal indictments against Trump -- the 45th president and the presumptive Republican nominee in this year's election -- as operating with potential time constraints.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's New York criminal trial approved a delay of Trump's sentencing after his lawyers asked for more time to argue how the Supreme Court's immunity decision
A New York judge agreed Tuesday to delay the criminal sentencing of former President Donald Trump in the state hush money case after Trump claimed the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision absolves him.
Sentencing was postponed at least two months as Trump's lawyers argue that the trial should have never happened
The U.S. Supreme Court ended its term with a highly anticipated decision that provides American presidents with a modicum of immunity from criminal charges. The case was ostensibly about former President Donald Trump,
The Supreme Court immunity ruling has complicated the federal election case against Donald Trump. Joyce Vance and Marcus Childress join Alicia Menendez to discuss.
Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion is the "ultimate clapback for Watergate," Stephen Griffin, a Tulane University law professor, said.
The US Supreme Court ruling that a former president has broad immunity from criminal prosecution has thrown a legal wrench into the cases facing Donald Trump.
Kristy Greenberg, former federal prosecutor, talks with Alex Wagner about why the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity is not likely to get Donald Trump out of his convictions in his New York criminal trial,
Donald Trump scored a courtroom victory Tuesday after the judge in his New York criminal hush-money trial and conviction delayed Trump’s sentencing until September. The former president was originally scheduled to be sentenced on July 11,
Bubbling rage against Donald Trump and the political elite who protect him from criminal prosecution has the power to topple the former president's campaign, an American historian and scholar argued Thursday.
The Supreme Court raised the bar for prosecuting former President Donald Trump, ruling that he has immunity for some of his conduct as president in his federal election interference case but maybe not for other actions,
Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled on Donald Trump’s petition for absolute immunity, and it went just about as expected. The six conservative justices ruled that the president has broad immunity when it comes to official acts,
Donald Trump recently secured a delay in his sentencing so he could argue in court that his New York conviction should be voided based on the Supreme Court's recent immunity ruling, but one former prosecutor says Trump will not win that particular fight.
The Supreme Court immunity ruling puts Trump in a favorable position ahead of the election in November. Yahoo Finance
Donald Trump faces an uphill battle as he attempts to nix his hush money case using the Supreme Court’s recent bombshell ruling granting presidents immunity for “official acts,” legal experts say. The high court’s Monday decision dealt a crushing blow to the federal election-interference case against the 78-year-old Republican — but his bid to overturn his Manhattan conviction in light of the ruling is a long shot.
Former President Donald Trump's partial victory on presidential immunity at the Supreme Court did more than help him out on his legal problems, former Trump administration Justice Department officials warn — it could also embolden him to use the police state to crack down on his political enemies should he be elected.
Officials in the Department of Justice will continue to pursue the federal criminal cases against Trump even if he wins the presidential election in November, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The DOJ has a longstanding policy that a sitting president cannot be criminally charged or prosecuted,
Republicans are hailing the Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have immunity from prosecution for official acts as a major victory over government “weaponization” as the decision deals a blow to special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of former President Trump over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
Donald Trump's sentencing for his 34 felony convictions was delayed by two months after the U.S. Supreme Court granted him presidential immunity for much of his conduct in the White House. The presumptive Republican nominee's legal team requested the delay and asked New York Justice Juan Merchan to set aside the conviction,
The Justice Department will press on with its two criminal cases against Donald Trump past the election even if the Republican wins in November.Lawyers in the DOJ believe a department policy against criminally charging a sitting president doesn’t prohibit them from pursuing cases against a president-elect,
The breadth of Monday’s Supreme Court decision is one that largely shields former President Trump from criminal prosecution, while raising questions about the extent future presidents can take actions that would go unchecked by the courts.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump—who has pledged to be a dictator on "day one" if elected to another four years in the White House—is reportedly preparing to exploit the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Monday that current and former presidents are entitled to sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution.
Former President Trump's New York sentencing pushed back to September
Recently, the US Supreme Court ruled that former president Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution for official acts he took during his presidency — and consequentially broadened our understanding of presidential power.