If President Trump won a second term, he could not pardon himself for the convictions he received in New York. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is facing bipartisan calls to pardon former President Donald Trump for his recent felony convictions, a scenario she has signaled is unlikely to happen. President Trump became the first U.S.
President Trump has vowed to appeal his guilty verdict. Amid speculation about how former President Donald Trump’s appeal of his conviction will play out, retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said he thinks there’s a way the former president can expedite the process to get it before the U.S. Supreme Court before the November presidential
The 2024 election cycle has resurfaced longstanding debates over presidential power and how much independence the executive enjoys from other branches of government. Executive privilege, which refers to presidents’ withholding communications from other branches, has come under scrutiny with issues surrounding both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The idea behind executive privilege
President Joe Biden laughed off former President Donald Trump’s claim that he was behind the criminal conviction saying, ‘I didn’t know I was that powerful.’ President Joe Biden has dismissed the notion that he was “pulling the strings” in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump, who had been found guilty of 34 felony
The congressional leaders said they extended the invitation to Mr. Netanyahu ’to highlight America’s solidarity with Israel.’ U.S. congressional leaders on Friday extended an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address lawmakers amidst Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza. In a May 31 letter to Mr. Netanyahu, Republican and Democratic leaders
A 54-year-old who plead guilty to four counts of second-degree rape of a 14-year-old in April will be physically castrated as part of his sentence. A proposed bill that would enforce surgical castration as opposed to chemical castration for those convicted of rape has advanced in the Louisiana legislature. The bill is now headed to
The panel said disbarment is needed to protect the public, courts, and legal profession, and also to ‘deter’ other lawyers from launching similar claims. The D.C. Bar’s disciplinary board on Friday recommended disbarring Rudy Giuliani for his involvement in “frivolous” legal efforts to challenge the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania. The decision, which would see