All posts tagged "Tanya Chutkan"

A legal expert explained Friday what outstanding presidential immunity-related questions may have prompted a three-week delay in pre-trial hearings in Donald Trump's 2020 election fraud case.

Judge Tanya Chutkan granted special counsel Jack Smith's request to delay the case as it reviews the Supreme Court's immunity ruling. Trump's team did not oppose such a delay.

Speaking to reporter Ali Vitali, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin said unanswered questions likely led to the pause. ...

A former federal prosecutor says the federal judge in Washington, D.C. who was just re-handed former President Donald Trump's 2020 election fraud case is now tasked with picking "through the wreckage" left by the Supreme Court — and deciding what is evidence, and what is not.

Elie Honig, former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, joined CNN's "The Source" with host Kaitlan Collins on Friday night to discuss the case, which returned to the hands of Judge Tanya Chutkan.

The federal case was brought by special counsel Jack Smith over the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol. The High Court sent the case back to Chutkan about a month ago after ruling presidential immunity exists and that presidents are immune for "official acts." The case returns to the trial judge, Chutkan, who is tasked with determining what is an official act — "and therefore out of the case," Honig said — and what's an unofficial or private act that can remain in the case....

The notion was once unthinkable.

More recently, purely theoretical.

Now, there’s a legitimate chance Donald Trump could be running for president, or even serving as commander in chief, from behind bars....

Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was spotted walking into the offices of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg late last week, a source present there — who requested their name be withheld to speak freely about the scene — told Raw Story.

Cohen's presence at Bragg's office comes amid a swirl of legal action among Donald Trump's four separate criminal trials. And it further fuels speculation that the 34-count Stormy Daniels hush money case, in which Bragg alleges Trump falsified business records, will leapfrog the other cases and go first.

At its core, the hush money case — with its salacious accusations that Trump paid off adult film star Daniels to keep their sexual affair quiet — is about election interference during the 2016 campaign. Cohen has now spoken to New York Attorney General Letitia James and D.A. Bragg several times....

The former president ranted about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s potentially damning new court filing in an oddly-capitalized and run-on sentence-ridden screed posted Wednesday to Truth Social.

“Crooked Joe Biden’s errand boy, Deranged Jack Smith, is obsessed with attacking your favorite President, me, and with interfering in the 2024 Presidential Election, which I am Dominating,” Trump declared, before addressing the new motion filed by Smith's team.

“Today’s pathetic motion is not just Illegal, it is also another Unconstitutional attempt to take away my First Amendment Rights, and to prevent me from saying the TRUTH — that all of these Hoaxes are nothing but a political persecution of me, the MAGA Movement, and the Republican Party by Crooked Joe and his Despicable Thugs.”...

A government official was forced to flee his home after one former President Donald Trump’s supporter shared his address online, according to information revealed in an unredacted gag order issued Wednesday.

The new version of Judge Tanya Chutkan’s partial gag order was released by a federal appeals court in Trump’s Washington D.C. election interference case, the Messenger was first to report.

The original 68-page order, issued by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Dec. 8, included three pages with blacked out information, the Messenger notes....