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2025/02/03   Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court
2025/01/18   Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat
2025/01/07   Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case
2024/08/15   Fraud trial of George Santos to begin next month with an anonymous jury
2024/06/19   US soldier sentenced to nearly 4 years in Russian penal colony for theft
2024/06/17   Court grapples with details on school shooter that were leaked to media
2024/05/25   Trial turns testy as Trump lawyers try to pique fixer-turned-witness
2024/04/19   Court makes it easier to sue for job discrimination over forced transfers
2024/04/11   Top Europe rights court condemns Switzerland in landmark climate ruling
2024/04/08   Elon Musk will be investigated over fake news and obstruction in Brazil
2024/04/04   Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
2024/03/25   Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty
2024/03/19   A Supreme Court ruling in a social media case could set standards
2024/02/23   Dani Alves found guilty of rape, sentenced to four and a half years in prison
2024/02/13   Trump arrives in federal court in Florida for classified docs case
2024/02/05   Samsung chief is acquitted of financial crimes related to 2015 merger
2024/01/20   Pita Limjaroenrat: Thailand court to decide if politician will lose his seat
2024/01/17   Court in Thailand acquits protesters who occupied Bangkok airports in 2008
2023/12/29   Pierce Brosnan accused of trespassing in a Yellowstone thermal area
2023/12/08   Hunter Biden is indicted on 9 tax charges in a special counsel investigation
2023/11/30   Panama’s high court declared a mining contract unconstitutional
2023/11/02   Donald Trump Jr. takes the witness stand in fraud trial
2023/10/27   Sen. Menendez enters not guilty plea to a new conspiracy charge
2023/10/20   Federal Judge rules California assault weapons ban unconstitutional
2023/08/24   Some states reject federal money to replace dangerous lead pipes
2023/07/17   Diversify or die: San Francisco’s downtown is a wake-up call for other cities
2023/06/23   Native American tribes say Supreme Court challenge was never just about foster kids
2023/05/22   Russia indicts ICC prosecutor, judge who issued war crimes
2023/04/26   German court: naked landlord doesn’t justify lower rent
2023/03/01   Mexican president lashes out at Supreme Court chief justice
2022/11/11   Montana vote adds to win streak for abortion rights backers
2022/10/27   Same-sex marriage is now legal in all of Mexico’s states
2022/10/24   Idaho Supreme Court won’t weigh legality of child marriage
2022/10/17   Court rejects appeal to give American Samoans citizenship
2022/09/28   Appeals ruling leaves Trump fate in defamation suit in flux
2022/08/29   Pa. man who attacked police on Jan. 6 gets 46-month sentence
2022/08/02   Family loses Supreme Court bid to extend boy’s life support
2022/06/24   States brace for fight over gun laws after high court ruling
2022/04/16   AG wants death-row prisoner’s mental fitness exam called off
2022/04/09   2nd defendant pleads guilty in 2018 hate crime in Washington
2022/03/20   9 apply for open West Virginia Supreme Court seat
2022/03/02   Israel high court suspends Palestinians’ evictions for now
2021/08/22   Judge tells prison to seize Nassar’s money for victims
2021/05/26   Justices signal they could limit Indian Country ruling
2021/03/27   Governor swears in newest Rhode Island state court judge
2021/03/23   Philippine Supreme Court slams killings of lawyers, judges
2021/03/15   Colorado court: Speed-reading bills violates constitution
2021/03/11   Drug trafficker says he bribed Honduras president
2021/01/18   SKorean court gives Samsung scion prison term over bribery
2020/12/21   Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results
2020/12/17   Senate confirms Barrett replacement on federal appeals court
2020/12/14   Georgia high court rejects latest Trump election appeal
2020/12/06   High court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in US court
2020/11/26   High court blocks NY virus limits on houses of worship
2020/11/07   Trump faces tough road in getting Supreme Court to intervene
2020/10/17   Pennsylvania high court to settle voter signatures fight
2020/10/12   Texas AG taps investigator tied to donor’s defense attorney
2020/10/05   High Court Won't Take up Ex-Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis' Case
2020/10/01   Court OK’s $800M settlement for MGM Resorts, Vegas victims
2020/09/27   Court allows public nuisance suits against 3 Alabama casinos
2020/09/20   Biden to focus on health care in Supreme Court debate
2020/09/05   Alaska Supreme Court rules bonding plan is unconstitutional
2020/08/19   Colombia warlord asks US court to force deportation to Italy
2020/08/15   9th Circuit ends California ban on high-capacity magazines
2020/07/27   Japan court recognizes atomic bomb 'black rain' victims
2020/07/09   Wisconsin Supreme Court OKs GOP-authored lame-duck laws
2020/06/28   Courts straining to balance public health with public access
2020/06/20   What Supreme Court? Trump's HHS pushes LGBT health rollback
2020/06/17   Court rejects Trump bid to end young immigrants’ protections
2020/06/10   International Criminal Court condemns US sanctions order
2020/06/05   Immigrants anxious as they await Supreme Court DACA decision
2020/05/27   Texas court: Virus fear alone not enough for mail balloting
2020/05/19   Judge blocks St. Louis prosecutor from law firm payments
2020/05/15   Louisiana Senate targets lawyer ads promising big payouts
2020/05/10   Catholic schools, ex-teachers clash in Supreme Court case
2020/04/23   Meghan's privacy case against tabloid heard at UK Court
2020/04/07   Poland chamber penalizing judges must be suspended
2020/03/17   Australian highest court to rule on Cardinal’s appeal later
2020/03/14   International court approves Afghanistan investigation
2020/02/09   Court fight over lost dog survives after dog's owner dies
2020/01/27   Man Stirs the Pot by Lighting Joint in Court
2020/01/04   President, Supreme Court top Wisconsin races in 2020
2019/11/23   Hong Kong court reinstates mask ban ahead of elections
2019/11/19   Supreme Court steps into Google-Oracle copyright fight
2019/09/08   Attorneys: Court seat puts Montgomery in far different role
2019/08/12   Cosby lawyers ask appeals court to toss #MeToo conviction
2019/06/16   Oregon city stops jailing poor who can't pay court debts
2019/04/12   Texas’ high court keeps execution drug supplier secret
2019/04/10   Media lawyers in Australian court over Cardinal gag order
2019/03/24   After shocking NY arrest, Avenatti faces court in California
2019/03/16   Veterans court may be collateral damage in immigration fight
2019/02/25   Governor says 'no executions' without court-backed drugs
2019/02/21   High court rules for retired US marshal in W.Va. tax dispute
2019/02/08   Opera singer, husband appear in court on sex assault charge
2019/02/02   NC high court sidesteps decision on tracking sex offenders
2019/01/15   Family's fight for liquor license leads to Supreme Court
2018/12/30   Missouri death row inmate asks US Supreme Court to intervene
2018/12/22   Colorado baker returns to court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation
2018/12/21   New voter ID law immediately challenged in N Carolina court
2018/12/15   Colorado baker returns to court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation
2018/12/11   Man accused of killing tourist appears in New Zealand court
2018/12/10   Chinese executive facing US extradition appears in court
2018/12/06   Supreme Court to hear closely watched double jeopardy case
2018/12/03   Indian court orders Briton held during copter bribery probe
2018/11/15   Mexico's high court tosses law on policing by military
2018/11/10   Trump moves to limit asylum; new rules challenged in court
2018/11/08   Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall
2018/11/04   Supreme Court agrees to hear Maryland cross memorial case
2018/11/01   S. Korea court upholds conscientious objection to military
2018/10/08   Kavanaugh to attend White House event, as elections loom
2018/10/06   Texas Supreme Court to hear sex offender law challenge
2018/09/21   Trump picks combat over caution in court fight
2018/09/13   The Latest: International court 'undeterred' by Bolton
2018/09/11   India’s Supreme Court strikes down law that punished gay sex
2018/09/01   High court pick Kavanaugh and his carefully constructed life
2018/08/28   Austrian court's approval for spy agency raid was illegal
2018/08/28   Kavanaugh's support for surveilling Americans raises concern
2018/08/25   In Veterans Court, former service members fight new battle
2018/08/23   North Carolina newspaper asks court to unseal lawsuit
2018/08/21   German court rules in broadcaster Nazi camp spat with Poland
2018/08/10   N Carolina Supreme Court race lawsuit returning to court
2018/08/01   Sex predator law challenged by Cosby to get court review
2018/07/31   Court: Mud buggy race operators weren't negligent in crash
2018/07/28   US Supreme Court ruling in union dues impacts case in Oregon
2018/07/26   High court gives mixed verdict on Burgum-Legislature spat
2018/07/21   Kavanaugh: Watergate tapes decision may have been wrong
2018/07/12   Conservatives close in on dream: Tipping court right
2018/07/02   Schumer rallies opposition to Trump anti-abortion court pick
2018/06/30   Abortion rights supporters decry court ruling
2018/06/10   Egypt refers 28 to criminal court for forming illegal group
2018/06/05   Detroit-area couple in court over control of frozen embryos
2018/05/31   Romania: Court tells president to fire anti-graft prosecutor
2018/05/30   Spanish court nixes terrorism accusation in Basque incident
2018/05/28   Supreme Court allows Arkansas to enforce abortion restrictions
2018/05/09   Czech court: Attacker on Petra Kvitova taken into custody
2018/04/06   Brazil's top court: Lula can be jailed for upheld conviction
2018/04/05   Supreme Court rejects appeal from Middle East attack victims
2018/04/02   Trump administration backs PLO in victims' high court appeal
2018/03/17   USCIS will reject any petition that includes an incorrect fee payment
2018/03/13   Kosovo special court issues lawyers' list, no cases yet
2018/03/10   TransCanada doesn't have to pay landowner attorneys
2018/03/06   Court: Nike logo of Michael Jordan didn't violate copyright
2018/03/03   High court: Held immigrants can't get periodic bond hearings
2018/02/26   Supreme Court declines to take up 'Dreamers' case for now
2018/02/16   GOP to take new congressional map to court
2018/02/05   Court: Lawsuit alleging coerced confessions can go to trial
2018/02/01   Court error unmasks person of interest in Las Vegas massacre
2018/02/01   Kenya's High Court orders government's TV shutdown to end
2018/01/26   Officials ask court to send Kennedy cousin back to prison
2018/01/20   Analysis: Outside groups may factor in Arkansas court race
2017/11/17   Steve Mostyn, Houston attorney and major Dem donor, dies
2017/11/14   Free Speech Is Starting to Dominate the US Supreme Court's Agenda
2017/10/30   Indonesia court upholds seizure of illegal fishing vessel
2017/10/20   Court, for now, blocks immigrant teen's access to abortion
2017/10/18   Lawyers want Supreme Court to block Texas from executing man
2017/10/10   Supreme Court to consider American Express fee dispute
2017/09/25   Australia's High Court to consider fate of 7 lawmakers
2017/09/20   Kenya Supreme Court says why it annulled presidential poll
2017/09/01   Indiana high court hearing appeal in children's fire deaths
2017/08/31   Court: Cherokee Freedmen have right to tribal citizenship
2017/08/29   Israeli protesters erect golden statue of High Court chief
2017/08/23   Otter appoints new justice to Idaho Supreme Court
2017/07/19   Idaho Supreme Court upholds grocery tax veto
2017/07/14   Federal court's agenda has topics that draw Trump's ire
2017/07/13   Man charged with killing Maine couple on Christmas in court
2017/06/13   Groups sue seeking court oversight of Chicago police reforms
2017/06/10   With court victory, hand of Brazil's president strengthened
2017/06/08   The Latest: Suspect in 36 fire deaths appears in court
2017/06/05   High court limits seizure of assets from drug conspiracies
2017/06/03   Court filing questions innocence panel insistence on secrecy
2017/06/02   Court sides with towns over utilities in tax dispute
2017/06/02   Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch: Rule of law 'a blessing'
2017/06/01   In one state, abused animals get a legal voice in court
2017/05/24   Playboy model who shot nude of unwitting woman due in court
2017/05/20   Court delay sought in $7B Obamacare subsidy case
2017/05/18   Supreme Court strikes down 2 NC congressional districts
2017/05/14   South Dakota and Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe clash in court
2017/05/09   Trump tabs Minnesota Justice Stras for federal appeals court
2017/05/05   Court revives black TV network's discrimination lawsuit
2017/05/02   Top Kansas Court to Revisit Death Penalty in Wichita Murders
2017/05/01   Court: Gay couple's suit against Kentucky clerk can proceed
2017/04/21   White officer headed to court ahead of civil rights trial
2017/04/18   Not guilty pleas entered for accused in Canada polygamy case
2017/04/14   High Court Struggles Over Hospital Pension Dispute
2017/04/03   Donnelly facing doubts from Indiana liberals over court vote
2017/04/01   High Court Struggles Over Hospital Pension Dispute
2017/04/01   Political fights over Supreme Court seats nothing new
2017/03/26   International court orders reparations for Congo attack
2017/03/22   Turkish protesters denounce alleged coup plotters at court
2017/03/22   Dems force 1-week delay on panel vote on Supreme Court pick
2017/03/07   Raw power in North Carolina: governor, legislature in court
2017/03/04   California court expands endangered-species removal powers
2017/02/18   Trial court election changes considered by North Carolina House
2017/02/15   Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear open meetings case
2017/02/13   Court: Police executing 'no-knock' warrant before shooting
2017/02/12   Partisan struggle over NC governor's authority back in court
2017/02/11   Kenya court blocks closing of world's biggest refugee camp
2017/01/27   Competing bills target, affirm high court water decision
2017/01/24   Top court reviews free speech case of man's anti-police rap
2017/01/23   Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case
2017/01/15   Supreme Court considers suit over 2001 detention of Muslims
2016/12/08   Muslim cleric is in US court fighting against deportation
2016/12/04   Lawyers for Egypt's Islamists see high court as last refuge
2016/11/22   ICC prosecutor: African states leaving court is 'regression'
2016/11/18   Nevada high court considering email public records question
2016/11/12   ICC prosecutors: US forces may have committed war crimes
2016/09/21   Pakistan court adjourns case of British woman's murder
2016/08/27   Egypt court releases lawyer who defied president
2016/08/21   2 teens killed in Atlanta suburb: Man accused due in court
2016/08/04   Turkish court issues arrest warrant for Muslim cleric
2016/07/23   Appeals court delay requested in ex-Virginia governor's case
2016/07/01   Court orders release of Chicago police disciplinary records
2016/06/11   High Court won't hear dispute over birthright citizenship
2016/06/10   Bollywood filmmaker challenges censoring of drug-abuse film
2016/06/10   Bollywood filmmaker challenges censoring of drug-abuse film
2016/06/06   Missouri Appeals Court to decide fight over frozen embryos
2016/05/10   Court: Slipknot bassist's child born after he died can sue
2016/05/09   El Salvador court takes up case on ex-president's finances
2016/05/05   Florida's high court urged to throw out death sentences
2016/04/16   Court sides with Argentina, speeding along bond settlements
2016/04/13   Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers
2016/03/28   Court papers: Woman to plead guilty to terrorism charge
2016/02/09   Court rejects AG Kane's request to reinstate law license
2016/02/08   Plagued by delays, California high-speed rail heads back to court
2015/12/02   2 charged in pastor's wife killing say little in court
2015/11/14   Kansas court's approval of death sentence not seen as shift
2015/10/17   Court records: Ohio man on electronic monitor raped teen
2015/10/16   Thousands turn up at court to support Catalan leader
2015/10/10   Connecticut court stands by decision eliminating execution
2015/09/16   Idaho high court upholds law banning horse racing terminals
2015/09/12   Religious clerks in Kentucky follow law, but see conflict
2015/09/03   Court: Transgender asylum seekers can't be equated with gays
2015/07/20   Court suspends ex-Chad dictator trial to ready new lawyers
2015/07/06   Doctor with hundreds of fraud victims faces sentencing
2015/07/06   Michael Jackson’s doctor pleads not guilty
2015/06/16   Texas turns away from criminal truancy courts for students
2015/03/23   Judge ends Chris Brown's court saga over Rihanna attack
2014/10/20   Courts reject another Arizona immigration law
2014/07/30   Federal court: Virginia marriage is for all
2014/03/07   Fla. high court: Immigrant can't get law license
2014/02/28   Supreme Court allows Stanford Ponzi scheme suits
2014/02/24   High court climate case looks at EPA's power
2014/02/10   Farmer pleads guilty in pot growing scheme
2014/01/30   Teen charged in Mass. teacher killing due in court
2013/12/05   Court hears discrimination case over wedding cake
2013/11/29   Supreme Court Will Take up New Health Law Dispute
2013/10/14   Justice's wheels slowed as shutdown hits courts
2012/01/08   Justices criticize EPA's dealings with homeowners
2011/11/04   Court tosses $43M award against Ford in crash case
2011/10/24   Scott+Scott LLP Announces Securities Class Action Lawsuit
2010/09/22   Penny Stock Risks – Caveat Emptor
2008/12/17   Ill. gov's legal woes worsen as fundraisers defect
2008/10/29   DA: Criminal charges possible in boy's Uzi death
2008/03/06   High Profile Local Law Firms Merge
2008/03/06   Kimkins Diet Scandal - John E. Tiedt Interview
2008/03/05   Civil Rights & the Hawthorne Police Dept & The LAPD


Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court
Hot News Topics | 2025/02/03 20:17
President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel, a close U.S. ally.

Neither the U.S. nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes over his military response in Gaza after the Hamas attack against Israel in October 2023. Tens of thousands of Palestinians, including children, have been killed during the Israeli military’s response.

The order Trump signed Thursday accuses the ICC of engaging in “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel” and of abusing its power by issuing “baseless arrest warrants” against Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant.

“The ICC has no jurisdiction over the United States or Israel,” the order states, adding that the court had set a “dangerous precedent” with its actions against both countries.

Trump’s action came as Netanyahu was visiting Washington. He and Trump held talks Tuesday at the White House, and Netanyahu spent some of Thursday meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

The order says the U.S. will impose “tangible and significant consequences” on those responsible for the ICC’s “transgressions.” Actions may include blocking property and assets and not allowing ICC officials, employees and relatives to enter the United States.

Human rights activists said sanctioning court officials would have a chilling effect and run counter to U.S. interests in other conflict zones where the court is investigating.

“Victims of human rights abuses around the world turn to the International Criminal Court when they have nowhere else to go, and President Trump’s executive order will make it harder for them to find justice,” said Charlie Hogle, staff attorney with American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. “The order also raises serious First Amendment concerns because it puts people in the United States at risk of harsh penalties for helping the court identify and investigate atrocities committed anywhere, by anyone.”

Hogle said the order “is an attack on both accountability and free speech.”

“You can disagree with the court and the way it operates, but this is beyond the pale,” Sarah Yager, Washington director of Human Rights Watch, said in an interview prior to the announcement.

Like Israel, the U.S. is not among the court’s 124 members and has long harbored suspicions that a global court could arbitrarily prosecute U.S. officials. A 2002 law authorizes the Pentagon to liberate any American or U.S. ally held by the court. In 2020, Trump sanctioned chief prosecutor Karim Khan’s predecessor, Fatou Bensouda, over her decision to open an inquiry into war crimes committed by all sides, including the U.S., in Afghanistan.

However, those sanctions were lifted under President Joe Biden, and the U.S. began to tepidly cooperate with the tribunal ? especially after Khan in 2023 charged Russian President Vladimir Putin with war crimes in Ukraine.

Driving that turnaround was Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who organized meetings in Washington, New York and Europe between Khan and GOP lawmakers who have been among the court’s fiercest critics.


Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will fill Marco Rubio’s Senate seat
Hot News Topics | 2025/01/18 09:50
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will take Marco Rubio ’s seat in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, making Moody only the second woman to represent Florida in the chamber.

Elected as the state’s top law enforcement officer in 2018, Moody campaigned on a pledge to voters that she’d be a prosecutor, not a politician. But along with DeSantis, she boosted her political profile during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, calling on the federal government to “hold China responsible” for the outbreak.

In elevating her to the post, DeSantis praised Moody as a key player in his political battles, a law and order prosecutor who’s prepared to help President-elect Donald Trump “secure and shut the border,” rein in inflation, and overhaul what he described as a federal bureaucracy “run amok.”

“I’m ready to show up and fight for this nation and fight for President Trump to deliver the America First agenda on Day 1,” Moody said during Thursday’s announcement at a hotel in Orlando.

“The only way to return this country to the people, the people who govern it, is to make sure we have a strong Congress doing its job, passing laws and actually approving the regulations that these unelected bureaucrats are trying to cram down on the American people,” she added.

Before running for statewide office, Moody worked as a federal prosecutor. In 2006, she was elected to the post of circuit judge in Hillsborough County, home to Tampa. A fifth generation native of Plant City, Florida, Moody was once named queen of the city’s famed strawberry festival. She’s a three-time graduate of the University of Florida and she and her husband, a law enforcement officer, have two sons.

As the state’s attorney general, Moody has been instrumental in defending DeSantis’ conservative agenda in court and has joined other Republican-led states in challenging the Biden administration’s policies, suing over changes to immigration enforcement, student loan forgiveness and vaccine mandates for federal contractors.

“I’m happy to say we’ve had an Attorney General that is somebody that has acted time and time again to support the values that we all share,” DeSantis said. “We in Florida established our state as a beachhead of liberty, as the free state of Florida. And she was with us every step of the way.”

Moody isn’t the state’s only AG to use the office as a stepping stone to a national post. Her predecessor, Pam Bondi, is Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department and is testifying Thursday in the Senate.

Moody will be the second woman to represent the state in the Senate, and the first in nearly 40 years; Republican Paula Hawkins served in the chamber from 1981-1987.

With the appointment announced, Moody is poised to take office once the vacancy occurs. Rubio is expected to have broad support from Republicans as well as Democrats, and his confirmation vote could come as soon as Monday evening.

Under Florida law, it was up to the Republican governor to choose Rubio’s replacement after Trump picked the three-term senator to be his next secretary of state. Moody will serve in the Senate until the next general election in 2026, when the seat will be back on the ballot.


Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case
Hot News Topics | 2025/01/07 06:58
President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York.

Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has denied wrongdoing.

The justices asked for a response from prosecutors by Thursday morning. Trump’s team sought an immediate stay of the scheduled sentencing, saying it would wrongly restrict him as he prepares to take office. While Merchan has indicated he will not impose jail time, fines or probation, Trump’s lawyers argued a felony conviction would still have intolerable side effects.

The sentencing should be delayed as he appeals the conviction to “prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government,” they argued.

The emergency motion is from lawyers John Sauer, Trump’s pick for solicitor general, who represents the government before the high court, and Todd Blanche, in line to be the second-ranking official at the Justice Department.

They also pointed to the Supreme Court ruling giving Trump and other presidents broad immunity from prosecutions over their actions in office, saying it supports their argument that his New York conviction should be overturned.

Their filing said the New York trial court “lacks authority to impose sentence and judgment on President Trump — or conduct any further criminal proceedings against him— until the resolution of his underlying appeal raising substantial claims of Presidential immunity, including by review in this Court if necessary.”

The Republican president-elect’s spokesman, Steven Cheung, called for the case to be dismissed in a statement. Trump simultaneously filed an emergency appeal in front of New York’s highest court.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office, meanwhile, said it will respond in court papers. Trump’s convictions arose from what prosecutors said was an attempt to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election.

Daniels claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. He denies it.

The Supreme Court’s immunity opinion came in a separate election interference case against him, but Trump’s lawyers say it means some of the evidence used against him in his hush money trial should have been shielded by presidential immunity. That includes testimony from some White House aides and social media posts made while he was in office.

Merchan has disagreed, finding they would qualify as personal business. The Suprem


Fraud trial of George Santos to begin next month with an anonymous jury
Hot News Topics | 2024/08/15 08:51
The fraud trial against former U.S. Rep. George Santos, slated to start in a matter of weeks, is coming into focus after a federal judge ruled Tuesday that jurors will have their identities kept secret from the public.

They won’t, however, be required to fill out a written questionnaire gauging their opinions of Santos when they arrive for jury selection Sept. 9, as his lawyers had requested.

Judge Joanna Seybert said during a brief hearing in federal court on Long Island that she agreed with the government’s assessment that a questionnaire would only bog the proceedings down.

She said questioning each potential juror in person would allow her and both sides to ask more varied and probing questions to elicit more truthful responses.

Prosecutors told the judge the trial could last three weeks because they expect to call at least three dozen witnesses, including some victims of Santos’ alleged crimes.

Santos has pleaded not guilty to a range of financial crimes, including lying to Congress about his wealth, collecting unemployment benefits while actually working, and using campaign contributions to pay for personal expenses such as designer clothing.

Seybert urged both sides to work together to “streamline” the proceedings where possible.

“Make me hopeful. Seriously,” she said. “Sit down and discuss what is absolutely necessary.”

Santos, who was dressed in a blue suit, declined to speak with reporters outside the courthouse after the hearing, the last expected before the trial.

But when asked whether he believed his client could receive a fair trial, Santos’ lawyer Robert Fantone said, “I think we’re going to be alright.”

In court, Santos’ lawyers pushed back at claims prosecutors made in prior legal filings that they’re not participating fully in the required pretrial document-sharing process known as discovery.

Prosecutors this month said they’ve turned over more than 1.3 million pages of records, while defense lawyers have produced just five pages. But when pressed by the judge, Santos’ lawyers maintained that they’ve turned over every document in their possession.

“We’re not stonewalling,” said Joe Murray, another Santos lawyer. “Trial by ambush is not how I operate.”

The New York Republican’s lawyers had argued in recent court filings that a questionnaire addressing potential jurors’ “knowledge, beliefs, and preconceptions” was needed because of the extensive negative media coverage surrounding Santos, who was expelled from Congress in December after an ethics investigation

found “overwhelming evidence” he had broken the law and exploited his public position for his own profit.

They cited more than 1,500 articles by major news outlets and a " Saturday Night Live " skit about Santos. They also noted similar questionnaires were used in other high-profile federal cases in New York, including the trial of notorious drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

“For all intents and purposes, Santos has already been found guilty in the court of public opinion,” read the defense memo filed last week.



US soldier sentenced to nearly 4 years in Russian penal colony for theft
Hot News Topics | 2024/06/19 12:14
A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on Wednesday convicted a visiting American soldier of stealing and making threats of murder, and it sentenced him to three years and nine months in prison.

Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, flew to the Pacific port city to see his girlfriend and was arrested last month after she accused him of stealing from her, according to U.S. officials and Russian authorities.

Russia’s state news agencies Tass and RIA Novosti reported that the judge in Pervomaisky District Court in Vladivostok also ordered Black to pay 10,000 rubles ($115) in damages. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of four years and eight months in prison.

Black’s case occurs amid tensions over Russia’s arrests of American journalists and other U.S. nationals as the fighting in Ukraine continues.

Russia has jailed a number of Americans, including corporate security executive Paul Whelan and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. The U.S. government has designated both men as wrongfully detained and has been trying to negotiate their release.

Others detained include Travis Leake, a musician who has been living in Russia for years and was arrested last year on drug-related charges; Marc Fogel, a teacher in Moscow who was sentenced to 14 years in prison, also on drug charges; and dual nationals Alsu Kurmasheva and Ksenia Khavana.

The U.S. State Department strongly advises American citizens not to go to Russia.

Black was on leave and in the process of returning to his home base at Fort Cavazos, Texas, from South Korea, where he had been stationed at Camp Humphreys with the Eighth Army.

Cynthia Smith, an Army spokesperson, said Black signed out for his move back home and, “instead of returning to the continental United States, Black flew from Incheon, Republic of Korea, through China to Vladivostok, Russia, for personal reasons.”

Under Pentagon policy, service members must get clearance for any international travel from a security manager or commander.

The U.S. Army said last month that Black hadn’t sought such travel clearance and it wasn’t authorized by the Defense Department. Given the hostilities in Ukraine and threats to the U.S. and its military, it is extremely unlikely he would have been granted approval.


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