CALIFORNIA/ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump’s lawyers immediately signaled today they will challenge a California law requiring Trump to disclose his tax returns if he wants to appear on primary ballots in the state…A challenge seemed all but inevitable given Trump’s legal moves to stymie House Democrats and New York officials who are also seeking the […]
Category: Legal
7/24/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump’s attorneys asked a federal judge Wednesday [7-24-19] to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the House’s top tax writer from asking New York officials to turn over the president’s state tax returns. Trump filed suit in the District of Columbia on Tuesday to keep House Ways and Means […]
7/23/2019
CAMPAIGN/CRIME/LEGAL/LOBBYING/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal jury on Tuesday [7-22-19] convicted Bijan Rafiekian, a former business partner of Michael Flynn, on a pair of foreign-agent felony charges stemming from work the two men did for Turkish interests during the final months of the Trump presidential campaign in 2016. The verdicts, returned by jurors in Alexandria, […]
7/18/2019
INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors’ decision to end an investigation into hush money payments to women claiming affairs with Donald Trump relied at least in part on long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday [7-18-19]. The Justice Department told a federal […]
7/16/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Gen. Michael Flynn’s former lawyer testified Tuesday [7-16-19] that Flynn’s business partner was upset by the decision to submit a foreign-agent filing for their Turkey-related work and even began talking about a heart condition when told of the plan to make the disclosure. Prosecutors called ex-Flynn attorney Robert Kelner as a […]
7/9/2019
CABINET/LABOR/LEGAL/SEX ABUSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday [7-9-19] that he feels ‘very badly’ for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, as the embattled Cabinet official faces an onslaught of calls by Democratic lawmakers to resign for his role in brokering financier Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 plea deal on sex abuse charges…Last year, former press secretary […]
7/9/2019
CABINET/LABOR/LEGAL/SEX ABUSE/TRUMP PEOPLE “Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta on Tuesday [7-9-19] faced fresh calls to resign, and rising pressure from inside the Trump administration, over his role in brokering a lenient plea deal over sex crimes for the New York financier Jeffrey E. Epstein as a federal prosecutor in Miami more than a decade ago. […]
7/9/2019
BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Judiciary Committee will vote this week to authorize a bevy of new subpoenas on the Trump administration’s practice of separating children from their families at the border and on President Trump’s possible obstruction of justice, summoning some of the biggest names to surface in Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation. […]
6/27/2019
COURTS/LEGAL/PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager, was escorted into a courtroom on Thursday [6-27-19] to face state fraud charges that the Manhattan district attorney has brought in an effort to ensure Mr. Manafort could still face prison time even if he is pardoned for his federal crimes. Appearing in […]
6/20/2019
DHS/ICE/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/MASSACHUSETTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday [6-20-19] blocked federal authorities from making civil immigration arrests inside the state’s courthouses. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction that blocks US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security ‘from civilly arresting parties, witnesses, and others attending Massachusetts courthouses on […]
6/18/2019
AFRICAN AMERICANS/CRIME/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Tuesday [6-18-19] that he would not apologize for his harsh comments in 1989 about the Central Park Five, the five black and Latino men who as teenagers were wrongly convicted of the brutal rape of a jogger in New York City. Mr. Trump was asked about newspaper […]
6/17/2019
DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is facing a hurdle no other president has — an unprecedented onslaught of investigations into almost every recent organization he has led. In California, investigators are examining some of the more than $100 million in donations to Trump’s inauguration. In New Jersey, they’re looking into the treatment of employees […]
6/14/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Washington’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board opened the door this week to hearing a challenge to President Donald Trump’s liquor license at his Washington hotel over claims that he doesn’t meet the city’s ‘good character’ requirements. The board on Wednesday issued an order denying the Trump International Hotel’s motion to dismiss a ‘protest’ from a […]
6/12/2019
CENSUS/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The American Civil Liberties Union late Wednesday night asked the Supreme Court to wait until the fall to decide if it wants to allow the Trump administration to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. In a motion sent to the court, the group suggested that the justices send […]
6/12/2019
DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said the Justice Department would have ‘no choice’ but to charge President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice if he finished his term without being impeached. Speaking with NPR’s Scott Detrow in an interview published Wednesday [6-12-19], Harris said special counsel Robert Mueller essentially set the stage […]
6/7/2019
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Roger Stone employee Andrew Miller has turned over records related to his old boss to a federal grand jury, including the now-indicted political operative’s schedule from the 2016 Republican National Convention, his attorney said Friday [6-7-19]. Miller testified about his former employer to the grand jury last week, and during […]
6/6/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has fired his lawyers who arranged a 2017 plea deal that helped set the tone for others to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Flynn’s attorneys, Rob Kelner and Steve Anthony, said in a court filing Thursday morning their longtime […]
6/5/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats, fresh off a Republican victory against them (in Federal Court) on the Wall, keep asking people to come and testify regarding the No Collusion Witch Hunt. They are very unhappy with the Mueller Report, especially with his corrective letter, & now want a Do Over!” –Donald Trump, […]
5/23/2019
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Chicago bank chairman has been indicted in Manhattan on a charge that he issued millions of dollars in high-risk loans to President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in an effort to obtain a senior position in the administration, federal authorities said on Thursday [5-23-19]. Prosecutors said the chairman, Stephen M. […]
5/22/2019
COURTS/DEMS/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “For three years, Donald J. Trump has treated the details of his personal and business finances as a closely guarded secret. On Wednesday [5-22-19], those secrets moved two steps closer to becoming public. A federal judge in Manhattan ruled against a request from President Trump to block his longtime lender, Deutsche Bank, from […]
5/20/2019
COURTS/DEMS/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump’s accounting firm must turn over his financial records to Congress, a Federal District Court judge ruled on Monday [5-20-19], rejecting his legal team’s argument that lawmakers had no legitimate power to subpoena the files. But Mr. Trump vowed that his legal team would appeal rather than permit the firm, Mazars USA, […]
5/20/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House on Monday [5-20-19] directed former White House Counsel Don McGahn to defy a subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [5-21-19], and the Justice Department released a corresponding legal opinion arguing that McGahn is not obligated to answer lawmakers’ questions. The move deals a […]
5/20/2019
CONGRESS/GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senior House Republicans are breaking with Donald Trump over the president’s legal claims that Congress can’t investigate whether a commander in chief violated the law. That view, advanced by Trump’s personal attorney and the White House counsel late last week, would upend long-held understandings about Congress’ ability to scrutinize presidential conduct — […]
5/14/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Intelligence Committee is investigating whether lawyers tied to President Trump and his family helped obstruct the panel’s inquiry into Russian election interference by shaping false testimony, a series of previously undisclosed letters from its chairman show. The line of inquiry stems from claims made by the president’s […]
5/5/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @JudicialWatch: Judicial Watch announced it received 756 pages of newly uncovered emails that were among the materials former Secretary…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 5, 2019 8:48 am […]
5/3/2019
LEGAL/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Carl C. Icahn, the billionaire investor who was a close confidant of President Trump, has received a second subpoena from federal prosecutors in Manhattan, this one related to a series of stock trades last year. Icahn Enterprises, one of Mr. Icahn’s main investment companies, disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday […]
5/2/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL/CONGRESS/DEMS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General William P. Barr defied on Thursday [5-2-19] a deadline imposed by a congressional subpoena to provide lawmakers with the full-text Mueller report. President Trump, meanwhile, has vowed to resist ‘all’ subpoenas issued by House Democrats in their oversight investigations. And Mr. Trump has sued his banks and the […]
5/1/2019
DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In 1973, when Donald J. Trump’s real estate firm faced a potentially existential threat from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s accusations of discriminatory practices, his lawyer, Roy Cohn, filed a countersuit against the government, accusing the agency of defamation. The gambit, announced at a news conference, helped Mr. Trump, […]
4/29/2019
CENSUS/COURTS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two years ago, at his confirmation hearings, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said that what happens abroad should not influence American judges in constitutional cases…But last week, during arguments over whether the Trump administration may add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census, Justice Gorsuch did not hesitate to consider what he […]
4/27/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you to brilliant and highly respected attorney Alan Dershowitz for destroying the very dumb legal argument of ‘Judge’ Andrew Napolitano….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, 2019 9:57pm […]
4/26/2019
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER: “I never told Don McGahn to fire Mueller. If I wanted to fire Mueller, I would have done it myself. It’s very simple. I had the right to. And frankly, whether I did or he did, we had the absolute right to fire Mueller. In the meantime, I didn’t do it. I’m a […]
4/24/2019
DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump spiked partisan tensions to new heights Wednesday [4-24-19], saying his administration will challenge ‘all the subpoenas’ sent his way by congressional Democrats. The president’s comment came the same day the Justice Department sent a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) stating it would not comply […]
4/24/2019
DEMS/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller may be done, but President Donald Trump and his team are still adding to an already hefty record of evidence that could fuel impeachment proceedings or future criminal indictments. Team Trump’s bellicose tweets and public statements in the last few days are potentially exposing Trump to fresh […]
4/23/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL/ELECTION/FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General William Barr has received a waiver to participate in the investigation of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a Malaysian development company that has come under investigation by the FBI and DOJ for alleged money laundering. The waiver, dated April 16, allows Barr to participate in ‘the investigation and litigation of […]
4/19/2019
LEGAL/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “A Massachusetts man was sentenced on Friday [4-19-19] to five years of probation after admitting he mailed threatening letters filled with a suspicious white powder to several prominent people, including U.S. President Donald Trump’s sons. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought three years in prison for Daniel Frisiello, 25, of Beverly, […]
4/19/2019
ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump campaign has hired its own in-house attorney for its 2020 reelection bid — shifting future business away from Jones Day, the law firm, that has represented Trump since his first run for president. Campaign officials and advisers cast the decision to hire Nathan Groth — a former lawyer for the […]
4/18/2019
LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team said on Thursday [4-18-19] the results of the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller vindicate Trump and show Trump acted properly when he fired James Comey, the former director of the FBI. ‘The results of the investigation are a total victory for the President […]
4/16/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General William Barr decided Tuesday [4-16-19] that some asylum seekers who have established credible fear and are subject to deportation cannot be released on bond by immigration judges — a major reversal from a prior ruling that could lead to immigrants being held indefinitely. The decision means the Department of Homeland […]
4/15/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Congressional investigators on Monday [4-15-19] intensified their pursuit of President Trump’s personal and business financial records by issuing a subpoena to his longtime lender, Deutsche Bank. The two committees that issued the subpoena, the House’s Intelligence and Financial Services committees, also demanded documents from numerous other financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, […]
4/12/2019
LEGAL/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VIRGINIA: “Mississippi federal Judge Carlton Reeves in a speech in Virginia assailed the Trump administration for lack of diversity in judicial appointments and likened President Trump’s attacks on the judiciary to tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan and segregationists in the Jim Crow era. Reeves, who has ruled on some of the state’s […]
4/12/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) is moving to issue a subpoena to obtain 10 years of President Donald Trump’s financial records from accounting firm Mazars USA, the chairman told members of the panel in a memo on Friday [4-12-19]. Cummings plans to issue the subpoena on Monday [4-15-19] […]
4/12/2019
LEGAL/MEDIA/OBAMA/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [4-12-19] accused the media of burying news that a White House counsel in the Obama administration had been indicted on ‘very serious’ charges similar to those his former campaign chairman and national security adviser pleaded guilty to last year…Craig, who served in the White House in […]
4/12/2019
LEGAL/MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Obama’s top White House lawyer, Gregory B. Craig, was indicted yesterday on very serious charges. This is a really big story, but the Fake News New York Times didn’t even put it on page one, rather page 16. @washingtonpost not much better, ‘tiny’ page one. Corrupt News!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]
4/12/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/TREASURY/TRUMP TAXES/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The chairman of the House oversight committee said Friday [4-12-19] he intends to subpoena President Donald Trump’s accountant for his financial records. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., told committee members in a letter that Mazars USA wouldn’t turn over records for Trump, his company and related entities without a subpoena. Cummings […]
4/10/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP TAXES: “The Treasury Department said on Wednesday [4-10-19] evening that it would not immediately comply with a congressional request to hand over President Trump’s tax returns, setting up a protracted legal battle between two branches of government. Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, said in a letter to Representative Richard E. Neal, […]
4/10/2019
ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump signed two executive orders on Wednesday [4-10-19] that he says will speed up construction of pipelines and other projects to enhance the production and transport of oil and natural gas between states and across international borders. The actions are unlikely to have much of an immediate impact, and they will […]
4/10/2019
ENVIRONMENT/LEGAL/OBAMA ADMIN/REGULATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has taken great pride in dismantling regulations issued during the Obama years, particularly rules designed to protect the environment or consumers. Federal agencies have spent the past two-plus years targeting rules designed to make chemical plants safer, conserve natural gas at oil and mining facilities and improve compliance […]
4/9/2019
DHS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and several legal experts are questioning President Donald Trump’s authority to bypass a senior Homeland Security official in order to install a hand-picked acting head of the Cabinet agency that oversees immigration enforcement. After Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Sunday that she was […]
4/8/2019
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A 9th Circuit Judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants. So unfair to the U.S. OUT OF CONTROL! https://t.co/XF8o3jMDle” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 8, 2019 10:10 pm […]
4/5/2019
LEGAL/TREASURY/TRUMP TAXES: “President Trump’s personal lawyer on Friday [4-5-19] asserted Mr. Trump’s right as a citizen to keep his tax returns private and told the Treasury Department not to hand the returns over to House Democrats, foreshadowing what has the potential to be a far-reaching legal fight that could reach the Supreme Court. The lawyer, […]
4/4/2019
DEMS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, told congressional lawmakers in a letter on Thursday [4-4-19] that Mr. Cohen can best help their oversight inquiries if he remains out of prison to sift through millions of his documents — and they asked the help of Democrats […]
4/3/2019
LEGAL/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In recent days, President Trump has used Twitter to warn Mexico that he may close the border, to suggest that The New York Times and The Washington Post be stripped of their Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the special counsel’s Russia investigation and to criticize the Federal Reserve for raising interest […]
4/3/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/OBAMACARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House voted Wednesday [4-3-19] to condemn the Trump administration for pushing a federal appeals court to obliterate the Affordable Care Act, and it urged the Justice Department to defend the law in court. The vote, 240-186, was nonbinding, but it documented the House’s support of the health […]
4/3/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “More than half of the House Judiciary Committee’s 81 targets in its obstruction of justice and corruption investigation into President Donald Trump have declined to produce documents, according to a POLITICO analysis. Two weeks after committee chairman Jerrold Nadler’s March 18 deadline, 14 witnesses contacted by POLITICO indicated through […]
4/3/2019
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/JARED KUSHNER/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even as President Donald Trump threatens to shut down the southern border, his administration is quietly working on a plan to expand some forms of legal immigration into the U.S. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has been working for months on a proposal that could increase the number of […]
4/1/2019
DEMS/LEGISLATION/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats should stop fighting Sen. David Perdue’s disaster relief bill. They are blocking funding and relief for our great farmers and rural America!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 1, 2019 11:47 am […]
3/30/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In honor of his past service to our Country, Navy Seal #EddieGallagher will soon be moved to less restrictive confinement while he awaits his day in court. Process should move quickly! @foxandfriends @RepRalphNorman” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 30, 2019 7:14 am […]
3/28/2019
LEGAL/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has lost another Obamacare legal battle — its second this week — just as the president has revived his drive to destroy and replace the 2010 health law. A federal judge ruled late Thursday [2—28-19] in Washington that the administration’s efforts to expand the availability of health plans that […]
3/28/2019
CELEBS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Thursday [3-28-19] that the Justice Department would examine Chicago prosecutors’ decision to drop disorderly conduct charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of orchestrating a fake racially motivated attack against himself. After charging Smollett in February, Cook County, Ill., prosecutors made the surprise announcement on Tuesday […]
3/27/2019
HHS/LEGAL/MEDICAID/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal district court judge handed the Trump administration another defeat in its attempt to allow states to impose work requirements in Medicaid, which has caused 18,000 people to lose coverage so far. In two closely watched cases, US District Court Judge James Boasberg Wednesday [3-27-19] voided the administration’s approvals of requests […]
3/25/2019
LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mueller’s finished. What now? The special counsel, Robert Mueller, did not find evidence that President Trump coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election, Attorney General William Barr said yesterday. But the White House still faces legal challenges. Mr. Trump claimed victory from the report, which concluded Mr. Mueller’s two-year investigation […]
3/13/2019
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he feels ‘badly’ for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was sentenced to additional prison time on Wednesday [3-13-19] and charged with new crimes in New York…Manafort was ordered Wednesday to serve an additional 43 months on federal conspiracy charges, bringing his total sentence between […]
3/12/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The New York attorney general’s office issued subpoenas on Monday [3-11-19] to two banks for records relating to the funding of several Trump Organization projects, The New York Times reported. Citing an unnamed source briefed on the subpoenas, the Times reported that the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James […]
3/10/2019
LEGAL/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @LindseyGrahamSC: Executive Business meeting this morning on judicial nominees in the @senjudiciary committee. WATCH: https://t.co/AAzW…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 10, 2019 8:52 pm […]
3/7/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, on Thursday [3-7-19] sued the Trump Organization, saying it reneged on its obligation to reimburse him for millions of dollars of legal fees and costs related to his work. In a complaint filed in the New York state supreme […]
3/6/2019
CONGRESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael Cohen on Wednesday [3-6-19] provided the House Intelligence Committee with new documents showing edits to the false written statement he delivered to Congress in 2017 about the Trump Organization’s pursuit of the Trump Tower Moscow project into the 2016 campaign season, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. […]
3/6/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michael D. Cohen on Wednesday [3-6-19] provided new documents to the House Intelligence Committee that he said illustrated changes made at the request of President Trump’s lawyers to a knowingly false written statement that he delivered to Congress in 2017, according to three people familiar with the matter. Mr. […]
3/5/2019
INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House has beefed up its legal team. Its political team is ready to distract and disparage. And President Donald Trump is venting against Democratic prying. Trump’s plan for responding to the multiplying congressional probes into his campaign, White House and personal affairs is coming into focus as newly empowered Democrats […]
3/1/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The chairman of the House Oversight Committee issued a stark warning Friday [3-1-19] to White House counsel Pat Cipollone, demanding that the White House turn over documents and comply with interviews related to how the White House handled security clearances of some of the President’s closest advisers. Democratic […]
2/27/2019
GOP/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Florida Bar is investigating Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz after his threatening tweet last night about President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen. Francine Andía Walker, the group’s director of communications, said the Florida Bar received a number of calls and emails regarding the tweet after it posted. According to […]
2/27/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The District of Columbia Attorney General’s Office has subpoenaed the Trump inaugural committee for documents related to its finances. The subpoena, dated February 26 and obtained by CNN, says the attorney general, Karl Racine, is investigating ‘whether the Committee’s expenditures of its nonprofit funds were wasteful, mismanaged, and/or improperly provided private […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Testimony by Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and ‘fixer,’ to a U.S. congressional committee on Wednesday [2-27-19] highlighted several legal risks Trump may face. Among his claims, Cohen said the Republican president directed ‘hush money’ payments ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and that Trump knew in […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/CONGRESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The dramatic public testimony to Congress on Wednesday [2-27-19] morning by President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, could intensify the legal issues facing the president in the criminal and civil investigations that are swirling around him, legal experts said. Mr. Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight and Reform […]
2/27/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The attorney general for the District of Columbia has subpoenaed documents from President Trump’s inaugural committee, the third governmental body to delve into how the fund raised $107 million and spent it to celebrate Mr. Trump’s swearing-in. The latest subpoena follows similar demands for documents by federal prosecutors in Manhattan […]
2/26/2019
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Geoffrey S. Berman became the top federal prosecutor in New York, some skeptics worried he would be President Donald Trump’s puppet. A year later, the Trump camp is suggesting he is part of the crowd that is out to ‘get’ the president. Berman is a Republican who contributed to […]
2/26/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization has accused a law firm of removing references about its long-term relationship with the company from its website as the organization alleges a conflict of interest over a lawyer from the firm working for a House committee that’s investigating the President’s company. In a new statement Monday [2-25-19], the Trump […]
2/26/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, plans to offer up a document to lawmakers that he claims will show the president engaged in criminal conduct related to a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, according to a person familiar with his planned congressional testimony. The person said the […]
2/26/2019
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, is now in the sights of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., whose office is set to bring charges against him. A federal jury in Virginia already convicted Mr. Manafort in a financial fraud scheme that could send him to prison […]
2/22/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSNIESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, met last month with federal prosecutors in Manhattan, offering information about possible irregularities within the president’s family business and about a donor to the inaugural committee, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Cohen, who worked at the Trump Organization for […]
2/22/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen met last month with federal prosecutors in Manhattan and provided information about potential irregularities in the Trump family business, the New York Times reported on Friday [2-22-19]. The newspaper, citing people familiar with the matter, said prosecutors in the Southern District […]
2/22/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Manhattan district attorney’s office is preparing state criminal charges against Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, in an effort to ensure he will still face prison time even if the president pardons him for his federal crimes, according to several people with knowledge of the matter. Mr. […]
2/20/2019
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups is asking a federal judge for a restraining order that would block the Trump administration from forcing asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their cases make their way through US immigration courts. In a motion filed Wednesday [2-20-19], advocates argued that the administration’s new […]
2/19/2019
LEGAL/ROGERT STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A post on Roger Stone’s Instagram account featuring a picture of the judge overseeing his case with crosshairs in the background could jeopardize the lenient gag order he received from her last Friday [2-15-19], as well as his bail. Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered Stone to come to court on Thursday [2-21-19] […]
2/15/2019
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/LEGAL/NEW JERSEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee received a sweeping request for financial records this week from prosecutors in New Jersey, the second subpoena the group has received in as many weeks as its fundraising and spending draws mounting scrutiny. The committee said Friday that it is in contact with the New […]
2/5/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal subpoena seeking documents from Donald Trump’s inaugural committee is part of ‘a hysteria’ over the fact that he’s president, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Tuesday [2-5-19]. Federal prosecutors in New York issued the wide-ranging subpoena Monday [2-4-19], furthering a federal inquiry into a fund that has […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LGEAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee confirmed Monday [2-4-19] that it had received a subpoena from federal prosecutors in New York as part of an investigation into the group’s fundraising activities. ‘While we are still reviewing the subpoena, it is our intention to cooperate with the inquiry,’ the committee said in […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal prosecutors issued a subpoena on Monday [2-4-19] to President Donald Trump’s inauguration committee in another sign of the broadening swath of investigations circling around events tied to the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath. A spokesman for the inauguration confirmed news of the subpoena from the Southern District of New […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort will be sentenced for the first time on March 13, a federal judge in Washington who approved his guilty plea said Monday [2-4-19]. The court date sets up one of the most anticipated bookends of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into […]
2/4/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Escalating one of the investigations into President Trump’s inaugural committee, federal prosecutors ordered on Monday [2-4-19] that its officials turn over documents about donors, finances and activities, according to two people familiar with the inquiry. The subpoena seeks documents related to all of the committee’s donors and guests; any benefits […]
2/1/2019
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The federal judge overseeing the Roger Stone case is considering a gag order, she said at a hearing in Washington on Friday [2-1-19]…Jackson cautioned Stone, a longtime Republican campaign adviser and confidant of President Donald Trump, against treating the buildup to the trial ‘like a book tour’ and reminded him […]
1/31/2019
LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Billionaire Republican donors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave $500,000 to a legal defense fund set up to help aides to President Donald Trump that are involved in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The Adelsons each contributed $250,000 on Oct. 1 to the Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust, which was set […]
1/29/2019
LEGAL/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Roger Stone, a longtime Republican campaign adviser and confidant of President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty Tuesday [1-29-19] morning to seven criminal charges of false statements, witness tampering and obstruction of justice. Special counsel Robert Mueller and the US attorney for the District of Columbia have accused Stone of lying to […]
1/15/2019
LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort spoke to a federal grand jury last fall about his communications with Konstantin Kilimnik, including regarding an in-person meeting with the Russian associate and an email with him, special counsel Robert Mueller revealed Tuesday [1-15-19]. The 31-page filing gives an unprecedented window into Mueller’s […]
1/11/2019
DEMS/LEGAL/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Democratic states are seeking to block new Trump administration rules that would make it harder for some women to get birth control at no cost. Lawyers for California and Pennsylvania appeared in separate district courts this week to challenge the rules, which would allow more employers to get exemptions to the Affordable […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/LEGAL/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is set to visit the southern border in Texas on Thursday [1-10-19] to make his case for building a border wall. And in the latest sign that he is considering extreme legal measures to secure funding for the project, he’ll be accompanied by an unusual guest: the White House’s […]
1/9/2019
BORDER/CONGRESS/LEGAL/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump’s quest to build a wall on the southern border has escalated to considering declaring a national emergency. It’s being reported the administration is looking to declare the emergency, then move around money already appropriated to the Pentagon by cancelling some other construction projects so that construction at the border […]
1/8/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who in 2016 met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower, was charged on Tuesday [1-8-19] in a separate case that showed her close ties to the Kremlin. Ms. Veselnitskaya, a pivotal figure in the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election, was charged […]
1/8/2019
2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign was charged with obstruction in an unrelated money laundering investigation, federal prosecutors said Tuesday [1-8-19]. The criminal case against Natalya Veselnitskaya, who met at Trump Tower in 2016 with Donald Trump Jr., Trump presidential campaign […]
1/8/2019
CRIME/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A look at where the investigations related to President Donald Trump stand and what may lie ahead for him: WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT? Trump is facing criminal investigations in Washington and New York. Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia and whether the president […]
12/20/2018
DHS/JARED KUSHNER/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge is questioning the White House’s role in reviewing government documents related to a freedom-of-information lawsuit for records concerning President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner. The nonprofit watchdog organization Democracy Forward is suing agencies including US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Department of Homeland Security […]