All posts tagged "Legal"

A bipartisan coalition of veteran lawyers, former judges, and voting experts is expanding its legal fight against President Donald Trump's executive orders.

The group includes the Democracy Defenders Fund, the Campaign Legal Center, and the American Civil Liberties Union, which have all challenged two Trump orders that would rewrite voting rules and strip states of authority the Constitution reserves for them, according to a Monday article by The Guardian.

Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney for eastern Michigan who now teaches law at the University of Michigan, said the advocacy groups are drawing the kind of firepower that large corporate firms once supplied but no longer do....

Donald Trump has so far been leaning on his PACs to fund his legal defense bills, and could in theory attempt to do the same with other massive legal judgments, but that strategy is running on fumes, according to Jen Psaki Saturday.

Psaki, former White House press secretary and current MSNBC host, recently called out Trump's 'demeaning' view of women. Now, she's looking at the former president's financials.

Psaki noted that Trump's PACs reportedly spent $50 million on his legal expenses last year, and that the campaign spent more cash than it raised in the last three months of 2023. She also highlighted that Trump's largest PAC, MAGA Inc., "spent more than it raised in the last half of 2023," including $30 million funneled toward his largest source of legal defense funding....

Donald Trump and his campaign are saying different things in a rare instance of the two being off message, a legal expert said on Friday.

Earlier on Friday, Trump suffered a loss when an appeals court mostly affirmed a gag order that was previously stayed. The appellate panel however limited the order, saying Special Counsel Jack Smith is fair game for attacks.

When he responded to the news earlier in the day, the former president assailed the appellate ruling....

Forced to testify before a grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) got some significant financial help from some of his U.S. Senate friends.

Nine of Graham’s Senate colleagues collectively donated $78,000 through their respective leadership PACs to the Lindsey Graham Legal Expense Trust Fund during December, according to a Raw Story analysis of Federal Election Commission records.

Sens. John Barasso (R-WY), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Crapo (R-ID), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Boozman and Steve Daines (R-MT) all contributed $10,000 to Graham’s legal defense fund through their leadership PACs from Dec. 5 through Dec. 7. ...