Letitia James

A newly released video shows Donald Trump pleading the Fifth Amendment hundreds of times in a deposition, and a legal expert explained how that could be used against him in court.

The former president was finally hauled in to testify last year in the $25 million fraud lawsuit filed against the Trump Organization by New York attorney Letitia James, and he exercised his constitutional right against self-incrimination nearly 450 times -- but MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann said the move carried potential risk in a civil case.

The co-hosts of "The View" were furious Tuesday when discussing the behavior of Republicans and right-leaning pundits who crafted conspiracy theories about the brutal hammer attack on Paul Pelosi.

A chorus of Republican officials and candidates ridiculed Mr. Pelosi and his wife, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after the attack as the conspiracies spread. The 21 elected officials who mocked the Pelosi family haven't yet apologized or corrected the record, the Seattle Times reported. The paper published a graphic showing the specifics about each member, which has been pushed out by former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).

In the wake of 10 classified documents being found by lawyers for President Joe Biden, the FBI searched the Penn Biden Center offices in mid-November, CBS News reports.

It's not known if the FBI found any materials in addition to the documents the lawyers found. Sources tell CBS News that there was no search warrant and Biden's representatives cooperated with the search.

The Manhattan special grand jury won't be restricted by one limitation that has slowed down the possible prosecution of Donald Trump in Georgia.

The special grand jury investigating Trump's effort to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia is believed to have recommended multiple indictments in the case, but ultimately the decision to charge the former president or anyone else comes down to the Fulton County district attorney, while the panelists seated in New York can decide on their own, wrote MSNBC columnist Jordan Rubin.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argued on Tuesday that DirecTV was guilty of "intellectual discrimination" because it dropped Newsmax, a conservative news channel.

At a press conference, DeSantis was asked if DirecTV should be investigated at the state level over the cancellation.

Law and Crime News reports that New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking more sanctions against former President Donald Trump over his attorneys' response to her civil fraud lawsuit against the Trump Organization.

In a new court filing, New York AG senior enforcement counsel Kevin Wallace writes that Trump's response to James' civil complaint is "deficient in a host of ways" and he asserts that the defendants "falsely deny facts they have admitted in other proceedings, they deny knowledge sufficient to respond to factual allegations that are plainly within their knowledge, and they propound affirmative defenses that have been repeatedly rejected by this Court as frivolous and without merit."

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig struggled to keep track of all the various criminal investigations and lawsuits Donald Trump is facing, and eventually concluded he was in "legal hell."

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office empaneled a grand jury to investigate the hush-money payment scheme involving adult film actress Stormy Daniels, which adds another case to the growing pile of legal troubles involving the former president.

Former President Donald Trump boasted about his new lawsuit against veteran reporter Bob Woodward in a statement released on Monday evening.

"I am continuing my fight against the corrupt, dishonest, and deranged Fake News Media by filing this lawsuit against a man whose image is far different from the fact, Bob Woodward, his publisher Simon & Schuster, and their parent company, Paramount Global, for misappropriating, manipulating, and wrongfully profiting from my Voice," said Trump.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at prosecutors investigating his actions, and he compared himself to infamous mobster Al Capone.

Writing on Truth Social, Trump rehashed his familiar complaints about law enforcement investigations being "weaponized" against him by his enemies in the American "Deep State."

Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump are trotting out a novel defense against New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud lawsuit against the Trump Organization.

As Business Insider reports, Trump's lawyers claimed this week that the Trump Organization is not an actual business in the traditional sense but is rather a "branding shorthand" that is immune to civil litigation.

The heated debate over facial recognition technology has a new flashpoint: Manhattan's celebrated Madison Square Garden, home to the New York Knicks basketball team and countless Billy Joel concerts.

The operator of the arena, where Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali in 1971's "Fight of the Century," is under fire for using the software to identify and eject certain lawyers from events at the venue -- because they are associated with ongoing litigation involving MSG.

Former President Donald Trump has dropped his effort to revive a federal lawsuit challenging a civil investigation in New York into alleged fraudulent asset valuations at his real estate company, Bloomberg reports.

On Tuesday, Trump attorney Alina Habba, without explanation, filed a stipulation of voluntary dismissal of the suit.