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Ex-prosecutor reveals Trump's 'longshot' new ploy to overturn hush money conviction

A former federal prosecutor believes former President Donald Trump's latest effort to overturn his 34-count felony conviction in Manhattan — leveraging his partial win at the Supreme Court that presidents have immunity for official acts — has a sliver of a shot, but won't likely succeed.

That case, which found Trump guilty of falsifying business records for buying adult film star Stormy Daniels' silence, looks all but certain now to be the only one of Trump's four criminal cases to be decided before the election, with sentencing set for later this month. An appeal could drag the matter out.

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'History-making': Biden praised for 'decisive' and fiery speech aimed at Supreme Court

President Joe Biden delivered a short, sharp, and forceful speech Monday evening, tearing into the Supreme Court's decision to grant immunity to presidents on official acts — a decision that cleared the way for former President Donald Trump to continue delaying his election conspiracy case, and placed new restrictions on how special counsel Jack Smith can charge him and use evidence.

"This nation is founded on the principle that there are no kings in America," Biden said. "No one is above the law, not even the President of the United States."

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Legal wonks clash over 'hysterical' Sotomayor dissent: 'That sounds pretty sexist to me'

Two titans of the American legal system had very different takeaways after Monday's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity.

Former Trump White House counsel Ty Cobb appeared on CNN to undermine Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent for being big on "hysterical... screaming" — but dry on substance.

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'Not honest': CNN host calls out senator for writing off Biden's 'bad night' debate

A tense exchange unfolded Monday on CNN when a Democratic senator tried to dance around President Joe Biden's debate performance against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

CNN host Jake Tapper showcased Biden's lowlights and grilled Delaware Sen. Chris Coons in response to two questionable moments when he squared off against the 45th president.

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'Horse hockey!': Irate ex-senator drops profanity in rant over 'activist' Supreme Court

An incredulous former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) slammed what she called an "activist" U.S. Supreme Court following its ruling on presidential immunity Monday, a decision she criticized as being dressed up "in federalist bulls---."

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, McCaskill, like other legal scholars, argued that the ruling was "terrible" and handed former President Donald Trump a pass on crimes of which he is accused.

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Watch: Bill Barr bursts out laughing over Steve Bannon's imprisonment

Former Attorney General Bill Barr laughed out loud after Fox News host Neil Cavuto reminded him that Steve Bannon surrendered to prison that day.

During a Monday interview, Cavuto wondered how Donald Trump would handle a second term after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he would have criminal immunity for official acts.

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'Dripping with disdain': Witness says Sotomayor didn't try to hide her contempt in court

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's voice was "dripping with disdain" Monday as she read her dissent against Chief Justice John Roberts' decision granting immunity to former President Donald Trump for "official acts," legal analyst Joan Biskupic told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Monday.

Biskupic was in the Supreme Court when the justices issued the landmark decision making a federal trial for the former president all but impossible before the election and granting the executive unprecedented new powers, legal experts say.

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'Mind-blowing': Alina Habba snaps at Justice Sotomayor for dissent in Trump immunity case

Alina Habba, Donald Trump's attorney, said she found Justice Sonia Sotomayor's opposition to a presidential immunity ruling "mind-blowing."

In a 6-3 decision on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that presidents have immunity for official acts. The ruling sent special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump back to a lower court, where it faces an uphill battle.

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'Disaster': Legal analyst cites 'big deal' buried on page 18 of Roberts' pro-Trump ruling

Digging deeper into the Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' majority ruling that handed Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin claimed the devil was in the details and the ruling is even worse than was initially reported.

Speaking with MSNBC host Katy Tur, Rubin held up a copy of the ruling and bluntly stated, "I want to put my voice in with Andrew's [Rosenberg's] choir here and say this is much more of a disaster than it might seem based on the rules that are being carved out here."

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Ex-FBI counsel rips immunity ruling as 'terrible decision made up of whole cloth'

Concluding a complex discussion of the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling that handed Donald Trump limited immunity from being prosecuted, former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann called out the court's conservative justices for making up the law as they go along.

Appearing on MSNBC along with legal analyst Lisa Rubin and former counselor to the U.S. attorney general, Chuck Rosenberg, Weissmann tried to sum up what had just occurred as all three of them poured over the ruling and attached dissents.

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'Trump lost!' Protests shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene's presser outside Bannon's prison

A press conference with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was derailed Monday after protesters made it difficult to continue.

Greene spoke outside a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, just hours before Steve Bannon was expected to begin serving his sentence after being convicted of contempt of Congress.

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'Really sick': Marjorie Taylor Greene erupts as Republicans bail on Bannon jail surrender

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained Monday that her fellow Republican lawmakers failed to show up to support convicted criminal Steve Bannon as he surrendered for his four-month prison sentence.

During an interview on Real America's Voice, host Terrance Bates asked Greene why no other lawmakers were with her outside the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.

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Steve Bannon's prison stall tactics have done serious damage to Trump: prosecutor

Reacting to Steve Bannon being scheduled to turn himself into prison Monday, State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg claimed the former Donald Trump advisor has "only himself to blame" for not being able to use his podcast for the next four months to rally the former president's troops in the lead up to the election.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the prosecutor smirked while describing Bannon's failing efforts to stay out of jail.

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