Trump legal news brief: Trump's fraud appeal 'exceedingly unlikely to succeed,' prosecutors tell judge Prosecutors with New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office submit a court filing asking Judge Anil Singh to make former President Donald Trump pay the full $464 million bond amount as he ... 03/12/2024 - 8:34 am | View Link
San Francisco prosecutors will seek a retrial in bondage and poppers killing of gay man California’s fifth division of the 1st District Court of Appeal overturned those convictions ... said they were “ready to proceed” with a retrial in an email to BAR earlier this week. 02/29/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
New delay in YNW Melly murder trial as prosecutors appeal ruling on documentary There’s no telling when the retrial of Jamell “YNW Melly” Demons will begin now that prosecutors have appealed a judge’s decision to keep a 20-minute documentary from being presented to ... 01/29/2024 - 9:02 am | View Link
Prosecutors accept retrial in Hakamada murder case Prosecutors decided not to appeal a Tokyo High Court order to hold a retrial for Iwao Hakamada. March 20 was the deadline for the appeal. Hiroshi Yamamoto, deputy chief prosecutor at the Tokyo ... 03/20/2023 - 7:51 am | View Link
Bill Cosby conviction: How prosecutors scored a victory against 'America's Dad' the most important ruling in the second trial,” Steve Fairlie, a former Montgomery County prosecutor, told ABC News. In another new strategy employed in the retrial, prosecutors called as their ... 04/26/2018 - 3:47 am | View Link
Even before most Americans woke up to the news of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, wild conspiracy theories about what supposedly had "really" happened were running rampant online. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan reports on some.
CNN's Katelyn Polantz breaks down the argument Donald Trump's lawyer made about the First Amendment to get the judge to dismiss Trump's election subversion case in Georgia.
Paul Ryan is warning Republicans of the negative effect that Trump will have on down-ballot Republican candidates. Not quite sure I understand why, unless it's to set himself up as a party leader after Trump crashes the party. Via MSN.com:
“I think we’re going to lose more seats than we otherwise would with Trump because there are just too many suburban swing voters that just don’t like him, that therefore vote against Republicans,” Ryan said in an interview with Southern Methodist University’s student-run Daily Campus on Tuesday.
Former GOP hopeful Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the Republican primary race after Super Tuesday, would have been a more unifying presidential candidate, he suggested.
Ryan said he didn’t subscribe to the nationalist populism of Trump, which is where “the bulk” of Republicans are right now, and also called the current GOP a cult of personality tied to Trump rather than based on a set of principles.
I'll give him credit for this: The granny-starver was one of the first Republican leaders to read the writing on the wall and get out of Congress.
A telling little clip from Mediate, where TV financial pundit Jim Cramer is basically urging Trump to cash in his chips, relinquish control or at least partial control and get a big fat payday. In theory, that sounds like sound advice. One small problem with that is what he's advocating is not technically legal.
driftglass: The revelation according to Chuck.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: No labels, no logic.
Blue Virginia: Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoes numerous bills that would have made Virginia safer.
Rewire: College students don't know their schools' abortion services.
Equal Justice Initiative: Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, which explores the legacy of slavery and the lives of enslaved people.
This installment by Batocchio.
Larry Fink, the billionaire CEO of the world's largest asset management firm, wrote in his annual letter to investors on Tuesday that it is "a bit crazy" that 65 is viewed as a sensible retirement age in the United States, drawing swift backlash from Social Security defenders and policy analysts.
Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, replied that the CEO of BlackRock apparently doesn't know the U.