Melania Trump’s time as First Lady was allegedly partially spent in meetings with lawyers to discuss matters regarding her prenuptial agreements with former President Donald Trump. According to a new book by Katie Rogers, which shines a light on Melania’s years as the First Lady, the 53-year-old also hardly ever visited her office space in … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York judge Friday to suspend an $83.3 million defamation verdict against the former president, saying there was a “strong probability” that it would be reduced on appeal, if not eliminated. The lawyers made the request in Manhattan federal court, where a civil jury in late … Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan lawyers Friday demonstrated peacefully in Nairobi against what they say is judicial interference by President William Ruto, who has said he will disregard court orders from allegedly corrupt judges blocking his key development projects. In recent days, Ruto has also repeatedly threatened to remove judges he accuses of teaming up with … Read more
Trump’s fraud-trial judge asked a pointed question during the New York AG’s closings on Thursday. “How would you compare the fraud you’re alleging to the Madoff Ponzi scheme?” he asked. “It’s smaller,” a lawyer for the AG said, adding that both cases demonstrate a sense of entitlement. In a possible bad omen for Donald Trump, … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge late Saturday said former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial on a jury’s conclusion last year that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the determination in an order in … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers rested his defense Tuesday and sought anew to immediately end the New York civil fraud trial that threatens the former president’s real estate empire. The judge said “there’s no way I’m going to grant that.” Trump’s lawyers — thwarted in a similar bid last month — were swatted … Read more
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig on Sunday dismissed Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba’s suggestion the former president isn’t testifying again in his civil fraud trial because he is under a gag order in the case that prohibits him from verbally attacking the judge and courthouse staff. “I’m mystified,” Honig, a former assistant U.S. attorney, … Read more
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Human rights lawyers went to court in the Netherlands on Monday to call for a halt to the export of fighter jet parts to Israel that could be used in attacks on Gaza. The organizations allege that delivery of parts for F-35 jets makes the Netherlands complicit in possible war crimes … Read more
In a freewheeling discussion Friday over picking a date for Donald Trump’s Georgia election racketeering trial, his lawyer argued there is little time to try the former president before the 2024 election − and the Republican frontrunner couldn’t be tried after then if he wins. But prosecutors seeking an August start to the trial, which … Read more
An attorney for Donald Trump provided scathing evidence against the former president in his federal classified documents case in Florida, and CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said it may lead to a conviction once the case goes to trial. ABC News reported that Trump attorney Jennifer Little told a grand jury that she “very clearly” … Read more