The defense is arguing that prejudicial statements related to the former president’s official acts in office were presented by the district attorney at trial. Attorneys for former President Donald Trump are moving to throw out the New York criminal trial, reopening arguments of presidential immunity after the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling on the
Washington — Rudy Giuliani, who served as former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, was disbarred from practicing law in New York on Tuesday after he was found to have spread falsehoods about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. A New York appeals court concluded that Giuliani is disbarred effectively immediately and ordered his name
Prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said they are not opposed to delaying Donald Trump’s sentencing for his criminal conviction in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that former presidents enjoy broad immunity for official acts. “Although we believe defendant’s arguments to be without merit, we do not oppose his request for leave
The IRS is under renewed congressional pressure to pull the tax-exempt status for several key U.S.-based nonprofits that are fomenting pro-Hamas protests across the country just years after they played a leading role in the anti-police riots that erupted as part of the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement. Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) alerted the
A coalition of more than 150 House and Senate Republicans are calling on the Biden administration to withdraw a slate of environmental regulations targeting heavy-duty trucks, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The lawmakers—led by Rep. Randy Feenstra (R., Iowa) and Sen. Mike Crapo (R., Idaho)—will send a letter, first reviewed by the Free Beacon, to Environmental
Employers would have to take steps to protect tens of millions of U.S. workers from extreme heat under a rule proposed by the Biden Administration on Tuesday. In what would be the first major regulation of its kind, the new rule would add safeguards for workers nationwide, requiring employer training to identify heat hazards and
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a dispute that called for an examination of the scope of a federal law known as Section 230 that provides a powerful legal shield for internet companies and has faced growing scrutiny in recent years. Enacted in 1996, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes