A legal journalist described the liberal justice’s dissent as “one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I’ve ever encountered.” In her dissent against the U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday ruling in Trump v. United States, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor listed several acts that she argued the high court’s right-wing supermajority has effectively sanctioned as unprosecutable […]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution for any official acts he undertook while in office to upend his 2020 reelection loss but no immunity for unofficial acts. The top U.S. court left it up to lower courts to decide under which instances Trump could be prosecuted. […]
“The court has no excuse for the lack of urgency on such a crucial issue.” The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule Monday on whether former President Donald Trump should be immune from criminal charges stemming from his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. But the high court’s delay in handing […]
When he’s done serving his four-month sentence for flouting congressional subpoenas, the former top Trump adviser faces a federal trial over the We Build the Wall scam. Steve Bannon, a onetime senior adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump who was convicted of defying congressional subpoenas related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, must […]