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'His conduct gets much worse': Impeachment lawyer has a warning about Trump

Former chief impeachment lawyer Barry Berke brought up the former staff of Donald Trump on Friday, taking to the media to sound the alarm that a second term would be dangerous.

The conversation began about the Trump trials and the notion that Americans deserve to see the evidence against him before the November election. MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace asked Berke whether those conversations should happen in the context of court or the presidential campaign. Berke said both, and everywhere.

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Ex-GOP lawmaker compares Fani Willis claims to Republicans' crumbling Hunter Biden probe

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Friday, former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) compared the Trump co-defendants in Fulton County, Georgia, to the Republican Trump allies in the U.S. House of Representatives.

"Look, in this case for people, not lawyers like [MSNBC host] Katie Phang, and not skilled with the courtroom as she is, to the layperson," said Jolly. "This sounds and looks a lot like the House Republicans investigation of Hunter Biden. It's like what are we really talking about and what are we trying to get to the bottom of? Because it has nothing to do with the actual indictment, the allegations of election tampering in the state of Georgia."

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Conservative George Conway shows how Supreme Court’s ruling is 'not really good for Trump'

Many legal experts believe the Supreme Court's decision to review former President Donald Trump's presidential immunity claim in the federal election conspiracy case has likely dashed hopes of special counsel Jack Smith trying the charges before the November presidential election.

But not so fast, argued conservative lawyer George Conway on X Friday — this whole thing may actually put Trump in a worse legal and political position than he was before.

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Trump's gold shoes ridiculed after price drop: 'Just surrendered 75% of their price'

Some say it was a sneaker con all along.

The 45th president came to Philly in mid-February and debuted before sneaker heads at the Sneaker Con his limited edition, golden bathed, red-soled "Never Surrender High-Tops" with Stars and Stripes accents for a $399 sticker price.

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'Bad joke': Alabama Republicans under fire from all sides over new embryo bill

Alabama Republicans were sent scrambling after the state's Supreme Court triggered outrage nationwide by effectively banning in vitro fertilization, but critics say the legislative fix they've provided only makes the situation worse.

The court's ruling, which stemmed from a botched fertility procedure lawsuit, held that frozen embryos were children under Alabama's strict anti-abortion constitutional amendments.

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Trump 'kept closing his eyes' as heated debate arose in 5-hour court hearing: reporter

Former president Donald Trump appeared sleepy and bored during a federal court conference in the criminal case in which he stands accused of hoarding classified documents in his Florida social club Mar-a-Lago, according to a new report.

Trump "kept closing his eyes" during the five-hour hearing as Justice department prosecutors, his attorneys and Judge Aileen Cannon debated motions and scheduling options ahead of the 2024 presidential election in which he is predicted to run, CNN's Katelyn Polantz reports.

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Trump ally Mike Flynn hit with sanctions bid by ex-Republican he's suing for defamation

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, an associate of Donald Trump who played a prominent role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has been hit with a sanctions bid in a defamation lawsuit against a former Republican activist.

Flynn, who held a MAGA doomsday prophecy event last year, reportedly sued former Lincoln Project veterans affairs adviser Fred Wellman for defamation "over three tweets that Wellman posted in February and March of 2022."

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Jack Smith 'visibly shocked' as Aileen Cannon doubles down on order he calls 'clear error'

Judge Aileen Cannon expressed skepticism in court Friday when special counsel Jack Smith's legal team argued against a ruling they've described as a potentially dangerous blunder.

Cannon presided over a federal court conference in Fort Pierce, Florida, to discuss her order, challenged by Smith, to unseal sensitive materials in former President Donald Trump's classified document case, Lawfare's Anna Bower reports.

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'Could get very ugly': Legal experts focus on final day of Fani Willis hearing

The final day of hearings in the complaint against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a prosecutor on her team, Nathan Wade, began with legal analysts predicting that the arguments against her have failed to prove she should be disqualified.

The issue was whether Willis hired Wade because of their relationship and then benefited from his gifts to her. Law professor Joyce Vance said lawyers for Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Fulton County RICO case have failed to prove that.

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'Trump should lose': Scholar explains exactly how SCOTUS should rule against ex-president

Nine justices need to confront an "extraordinary question of American governance: Are ex-presidents immune from prosecution for in-term conduct? And, if so, how much immunity do they have?"

This is the nucleus of University of Texas at Austin School of Law Prof. Lee Kovarsky's Op-Ed in The New York Times.

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A single sentence signals Supreme Court will toss Trump's 'crazy' claim: experts

A single inscrutable sentence in the Supreme Court’s notice that they’ll consider former President Donald Trump’s presidential immunity claim signals their intention to toss it, legal experts said Thursday.

This argument appears in an analysis from NBC filed Thursday from Lawrence Hurley, who set himself the challenge of looking at one 29-word sentence and answering, “What the hell do these words even mean?”

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Judge Cannon will let lawyer for media outlets weigh in on sealing of Trump case filings

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will allow an attorney representing several media outlets to weigh in on issues relating to access to filings in former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

In the filing, Cannon notes that the media coalition "moves for leave to intervene in this matter on a tentative basis and for the limited purposes of (1) providing the Court with argument regarding those access issues on behalf of the press and public; and (2) ensuring that the press and public receive 'an opportunity to be heard on the question of their exclusion' prior to any closure of the Scheduling Conference itself."

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'Hound them': Supreme Court faces flood of protests over Trump immunity case

An online movement aims to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to quickly deny Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity in the election subversion case against him.

The unorganized group is concerned that the high court may have helped Trump by taking up the case that is expected to delay his trial past the 2024 presidential election.

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