Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. When we left off last week, Emil Bove was scouring the Justice Department halls for a warm body to sign his motion to dismiss charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. One of […]
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The Supreme Court’s first decision on a Donald Trump case in his second term was a choice to put off weighing in for now on his power to fire the head of an independent agency. In response to the government’s
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“Could Emil Bove be disbarred for his handling of the Eric Adams case?” — William Kemps, Saylorsburg, Penn. Hi William, In shocking letters that became public last week, federal prosecutors in New York raised ethical issues with Trump Justice Department
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UPDATE (Feb. 20, 2025, 1:25 p.m. ET): On Thursday, federal government defendants wrote to U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in opposition to a motion seeking to hold them in contempt for violating a court order in litigation over the Trump
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Ahead of Wednesday’s hearing over the Trump Justice Department’s bid to dismiss New York Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption indictment, DOJ chief of staff Chad Mizelle posted a social media thread critiquing the legal theory of the case brought by federal
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It took less than a month for a case from Donald Trump’s second presidential term to reach the Supreme Court. The administration’s appeal stems from Trump’s attempt to fire a top government watchdog in a dispute that implicates long-standing precedent
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“Why can’t Donald Trump’s federal cases be paused for four years?” — Sheryl Keshishian, Wynnewood, Penn. Hi Sheryl, Jack Smith addressed this in his motion to dismiss Trump’s federal election interference case, which he incorporated into his motion to dismiss
Why can’t Trump’s criminal cases be paused? Read More »
Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t take office until later this month, but he already filed a brief in the highly anticipated TikTok ban case ahead of next week’s Supreme Court hearing. And the new year
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Jan. 3, 2025, 9:11 PM UTC / Updated Jan. 3, 2025, 9:53 PM UTC By Jordan Rubin Judge Juan Merchan rejected a motion from Donald Trump to dismiss the New York hush money case and set the president-elect’s sentencing for Jan. 10. Merchan
President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to end birthright citizenship. But his stated policy goal is in tension with the Constitution, and an executive order from the Trump White House attempting to achieve that goal could lead to an early
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