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Former President Donald Trump filed a notice of appeal Friday in the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the ongoing falsified documents criminal case surrounding payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump is appealing a federal district court ruling keeping the criminal case in New York State Court instead of [...]

Michael Cohen, former attorney of former President Donald Trump, settled his lawsuit against the Trump organization Friday. The suit alleged that Cohen was owed over $1.9 million in legal fees that the Trump Organization refused to pay after Cohen was fired as Trump’s attorney. The hearing was not recorded; however, Kara Scannell with CNN, who [...]

A New York federal judge denied on Wednesday former US President Donald Trump’s effort to move Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against him from a New York state court to a federal court. As a result, Bragg’s criminal case against Trump, in which Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business [...]

Former US President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that he received a letter on Sunday from Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney leading two criminal investigations into the former president, that indicated he was the subject of an investigation into attempted 2020 election interference and the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Trump [...]

The Georgia Supreme Court issued an order on Monday unanimously rejecting former US President Donald Trump’s attempts to prevent the release and use of a special purpose grand jury investigation into 2020 election interference claims. In February of this year, a Georgia lower court allowed parts of the grand jury report to be released, where [...]

A District of Columbia (DC) Bar Association Disciplinary committee released a report Friday recommending that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani be disbarred and prevented from practicing law due to his involvement in lawsuits attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Giuliani was Mayor of New York City from 1994-2001, a 2008 presidential candidate, a [...]

Members of the US House of Representatives introduced two resolutions on Friday, H.Res.547  and H.Res.538, that would expunge the impeachments of former President Donald Trump. Trump is the third US president to be impeached and the only president to be impeached twice. If passed, both resolutions would expunge Trump’s impeachments as if they had not [...]

A federal court in Washington DC on Thursday refused to intervene in a disciplinary hearing over former Department of Justice (DOJ) official Jeffrey Clark’s participation in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The US District Court for the District of Columbia said they had no jurisdiction over the DC Board on [...]

The Texas state House of Representatives filed articles of impeachment Thursday against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The articles alleges Paxton has committed 20 counts of criminal misconduct since he assumed office in 2015. One of the instance of misconduct alleged in the articles of impeachment is that Paxton directed employees in his office to [...]

A bipartisan legal advocacy group Wednesday filed an informal ethics complaint against Stefan Passantino, the former lawyer of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. The 65 Project argued that Passantino committed a series of ethics violations during his time as Hutchinson’s lawyer. As a result, the group asked that the Georgia State Bar conduct an [...]