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"Shocked," a legal expert said on Wednesday after detailing a new Donald Trump filing in which his "angry" attorneys demanded a stay of the massive civil fraud judgment.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin took to social media to explain some of the newest revelations in the fraud case, which saw the ex-president being found liable for fraud and ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars. There has been a lot of speculation as to how Trump will pay the hefty fee.

But Rubin is paying more attention to the fact that Trump's lawyers earlier had asked Justice Engoron "for time to submit a proposed counter-judgment even though it should be a relatively plain statement of the injunctive relief Engoron ordered plus some math to fill in the pre-judgment interest."...

Georgia GOP Sen. Shawn Still, who was accused of being one of Donald Trump's "fake" electors and is one of the former president's co-defendants in the Georgia state election subversion criminal case, was granted a three-month stay this Thursday, The Messenger reported.

From The Messenger: "The proceedings to 'all aspects of the case' in Georgia will be halted for him until April 18, 2024, because Still is a member of the General Assembly, serving as a state senator. Other 'provisions, including initial reciprocal discovery obligations, remain in place,' the court document stated."

Also read: Trump 'shot himself in the foot' with civil trial speeches: legal expert...

Donald Trump on Wednesday evening asked Judge Chutkan to stay "all proceedings" in a case alleging he attempted to subvert the 2020 election after losing to President Joe Biden.

Trump, who has argued in court that his is totally immune from the suit because he was president at the time, doubled down on the key defense just last week. Trump's legal team at the time was responding to special counsel Jack Smith's filing, which said that Trump is "not above the law."

In that filing, the prosecutor dismantled the former president's argument that he is absolutely immune from prosecution due to his former office....

Texas carried out the controversial execution of a Mexican national who was denied his consular rights, ignoring calls for a reprieve from the White House and the Mexican government.

A federal judge on Thursday issued a temporary hold on his recent ruling voiding the health care law, offering the Obama administration one week to appeal.

ATLANTA (Reuters) A federal judge refused late on Tuesday to issue a stay of execution for a man who claimed Georgia's supply of lethal injection drug sodium thiopental has "almost certainly" expired, meaning he would be subjected to an unnecessarily painful death.