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'Decision will be overturned': Law experts predict immunity ruling will not survive

Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe expects the U.S. Supreme Court will likely overturn its own decision in Donald Trump's case.

Legal analysts lined up to denounce the court's decision Monday that gives Donald Trump immunity for actions taking in his official capacity as president. But in reading lawyer Robert B. Hubbell, Tribe quoted that the ruling is “destined to be remembered as a mark of shame for the Roberts Court just as Dred Scott tarnishes Chief Justice Taney’s legacy to this day.”

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'Be honest with himself': Democratic lawmaker latest to bash Biden

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) joined the growing chorus of Democrats expressing doubts about President Joe Biden's ability to lead the party into November's election.

Biden's faltering performance at last week's debate against Donald Trump raised concerns about his age and fitness for another term, and Quigley on Tuesday joined a small but growing number of Democratic lawmakers to go on the record to state their concerns.

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'The man just doesn't stop winning': MAGA rejoices over Trump sentencing delay

Former President Donald Trump's supporters rejoiced Tuesday after news broke that a sentencing hearing in his criminal hush money case would likely be delayed until after the Republican National Convention, when the convicted felon is predicted to secure his party's nomination.

"Another W for Trump!" declared "anti-Islam, anti-immigration crusader" Laura Loomer.

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Democratic governors hold emergency meeting over Biden debate concerns: report

Democratic governors are seeking answers from the White House about President Joe Biden's poor performance in last week's debate.

The governors took part Monday in a call organized by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to discuss their concerns about the 81-year-old president, according to multiple sources who spoke to CNN.

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'Jack Smith is going to come out swinging': Trump warned he's about to be hit hard


After the U.S. Supreme Court issued its Monday ruling protecting Donald Trump from some of the charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith related to the 2020 election, legal analysts predict it is still possible to have some hearings before the election.

Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg and legal analyst Anthony Coley said that, despite the timeline challenges with motions, an evidentiary hearing could expose a lot of information against Trump for the public.

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'Intent to deceive': Rudy Giuliani formally disbarred in New York over 2020 election lies

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, an ex-U.S. Attorney, was officially disbarred in New York this week for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

In a 31-page ruling, a judicial panel, the First Department of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, noted that Giuliani was charged with "demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts" in an attempt to return his client, former President Donald Trump, to office.

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'Elites will not save you': Rallying cry issued for mass action against ‘Dictator Trump’

America faces an immediate future of military occupations, political executions and concentration camps unless millions of its citizens unite against “dictator” Donald Trump, a furious and frightened political analyst wrote Tuesday.

Salon’s Chauncey DeVega delivered this impassioned rallying cry one day after the Supreme Court strengthened presidential immunity to cover political assassinations and use of the military against rivals, as dissenting justices and legal experts respectively warn.

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Trump hush money sentencing delayed after Supreme Court ruling: report

Manhattan prosecutors Tuesday acquiesced to Donald Trump’s request to postpone criminal sentencing in his criminal hush money trial, according to a new report.

District Attorney Alvin Bragg's legal team agreed Judge Juan Merchan should have more time to weigh the implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling and if it imperils his conviction in the historic hush money trial, the New York Times reports.

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Revealed: MAGA lawyer was radicalized by her husband's $3M bank fraud conviction

Cleta Mitchell, a far-right lawyer who routinely pushes election conspiracy theories and is laying much of the Trump world's groundwork to challenge the legitimacy of the 2024 election if it doesn't go their way, wasn't always like this.

In fact, growing up in Oklahoma, she was known by her academic and work colleagues as one of the most liberal, progressive people around, having a key role in fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment when she served in the state legislature as a Democrat, among other things.

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'Fight back': Massive campaign to hit Supreme Court launches hours after immunity ruling

Demand Justice, the progressive judicial advocacy group that spent $1 million to support and promote Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination, reveals it’s planning a $10 million campaign to advocate for reforms to the nation’s highest court – including expanding it – and protect the institution from a possible Trump second term.

“Our democracy is in an absolute crisis, and the Supreme Court majority is accelerating it,” Demand Justice senior adviser Skye Perryman told Politico Monday, after SCOTUS handed down its ruling that presidents have “absolute” immunity from prosecution for “official” acts.

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Lauren Boebert slams Republican lawmakers over Steve Bannon's imprisonment

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) lashed out at her Republican colleagues after former White House strategist Steve Bannon began his four-month sentence in a Connecticut prison.

Boebert's complaint came a day after Bannon surrendered to a prison in Danbury following his failed appeals for contempt of Congress convictions.

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Watchdog sounds alarm that Trump's 'brazen' foreign business dealings will get worse

Donald Trump exploited the presidency in his first term to financially benefit himself and his family, ethics experts wrote Tuesday. And they warned the grifting would only get worse in a second term.

The former president raked in up to $160 million from business in foreign nations while in office, according to a recent estimate by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) that was shared with USA Today.

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'Need a bigger wrecking ball': Defiant Jan. 6 rioter refuses to quit job on school board

A school board member in Virginia has been sentenced to jail for his role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — but has no intention of resigning his office, according to NBC4 Washington.

Frederick County board member Miles Adkins pleaded guilty to a pair of misdemeanors this week and was sentenced to 12 days in prison.

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