“Donald Trump will have no penalty for criminal wrongdoing, which is an affront to accountability and to a system where no one is above the law, though the judge had little alternative,” said one ethics expert. After being convicted of 34 felonies in New York last year, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday received an unconditional discharge during a sentencing hearing […]
“Alito claims it was to help a former clerk get a job,” wrote one legal commentator. “Doesn’t matter. Federal law requires Alito now be DISQUALIFIED from the Trump stay petition.” Following the revelation that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had a private phone call with Trump the day before Trump’s legal team petitioned the Supreme […]
One journalist warned that the state court “laid the groundwork for potentially overturning the election” in favor of Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs’ GOP challenger, Jefferson Griffin. Democracy defenders across the United States on Tuesday responded with alarm to Republicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court blocking certification of incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ […]
“Delay is the name of the game here,” said one legal analyst. “If they can just stop the clock until January 20th, then… the attorney general will be a Trump appointee and they can kill the whole thing.” A ileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida, ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to temporarily […]