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☆ Trump gag order partially lifted in hush money case ahead of Biden debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A New York judge on Tuesday lifted parts of a gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump in his criminal hush money case, but kept some restrictions in place until Trump is sentenced. While he lifted that piece of the gag order, the judge ruled that a prohibition on disclosing juror information will remain in effect until further notice. Trump raged against the gag order when it was first imposed on March 26, about three weeks before the trial began. Trump violated the gag order 10 times during the historic trial. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung in a statement Tuesday criticized Merchan for declining to lift the entire gag order.

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☆ Judge rolls back parts of Trump gag order ahead of sentencing in New York criminal case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Lauren Del Valle | Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Trump, however, cannot discuss any prosecutor, court staffer or their family members, according to a court order on Tuesday from Judge Juan Merchan that rolls back parts of the gag order imposed before the trial began. That aspect of the gag order remains in effect at least until his sentencing, which is set for July 11. Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement that Merchan’s order “leaves in place portions of the unconstitutional gag order” and that Trump plans to appeal the ruling. Trump repeatedly complained about the gag order throughout the seven-week trial, arguing that witnesses, including Cohen, were taking advantage of the gag order to attack him when he couldn’t respond. In the filing, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said it did not oppose lifting the portion of the gag order that blocked Trump from making statements about witnesses.

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☆ Supreme Court to weigh state restrictions on gender-affirming care for youths
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., June 17, 2024. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday waded into the contentious debate over gender-affirming care for transgender minors by agreeing to resolve challenges to a law in Tennessee that seeks to restrict it. The justices will review an appeals court ruling that upheld the measure. In a separate case, the court in April allowed Idaho to mostly enforce a similar law. The plaintiffs then asked the Supreme Court to step in.

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☆ Appeals Court Denies Bannon’s Emergency Motion to Remain Free
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Zach Montague | More About Zach Montague | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The three-judge appeals panel that denied Mr. Bannon’s emergency motion on Thursday was split, 2 to 1, with Judge Justin R. Walker dissenting. Judge Walker noted that Mr. Bannon was petitioning the Supreme Court to consider his case and wrote that he should remain free until it decides whether to hear his appeal. Mr. Bannon’s lawyers have argued that his case involves important legal questions surrounding the separation of powers. At trial, they argued that Mr. Bannon was acting on the advice of lawyers who counseled him that he could disregard the subpoena under former President Donald J. Trump’s executive privilege. Mr. Bannon had served briefly as Mr. Trump’s top political adviser in the White House but had left the position long before the attack on the Capitol.

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☆ Baltimore bridge: Attorneys reach deal that could allow some Dali crew members to fly home after months stuck onboard
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Holly Yan | Gabe Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Crew members haven’t been able to get off the ship for a variety of reasons. Bennett’s email identifies the eight eligible crew members, which include a cook, a fitter and an oiler. As part of the deal, those crew members will not need to stay in Baltimore. But with the new agreement Wednesday night, the eight crew members would be able to leave the country before they’re deposed. But it’s still unclear exactly when the eight crew members – and the rest of their colleagues – will be able to leave.

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☆ Hear what Judge Judy thinks about the legal cases against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Chris Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Trump gag order appeal dismissed by New York's top court
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

New York's highest court on Tuesday dismissed former President Donald Trump's appeal of the gag order in his criminal hush money trial. The New York Court of Appeals in a brief decision declined to hear Trump's bid "upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved." The decision means Trump's gag order, which bars him from speaking about jurors, witnesses and other parties involved in the Manhattan Supreme Court case, remains in effect. Trump's attorneys asked Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial, to terminate the gag order because the trial is over. The Trump campaign and the lawyer who filed the gag order appeal to the state's top court did not immediately respond to CNBC's requests for comment.

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☆ New York’s highest court leaves Trump gag order in hush money case in effect
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Nicki Brown | Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —New York’s highest court has declined to hear Donald Trump’s appeal on the gag order in his hush money case, according to a decision list posted Tuesday. The gag order, issued by Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case against Trump, remains in effect. Separately, Trump has asked Merchan to terminate the gag order ahead of his sentencing scheduled for July. Once that motion is filed, the court will again make a decision on whether to hear the case. If the Court of Appeals did find the gag order unconstitutional, Trump’s attorneys wrote it would “undermine the justification” for the fines Trump received for his violations.

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☆ Tyler Boebert finally has a lawyer in his theft case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewLauren Boebert's teenage son, Tyler Boebert, has finally hired an attorney for his Colorado criminal theft case after months without any representation. Tyler Boebert had been without an attorney during his last two court appearances, first telling the judge that he was having trouble affording a lawyer. "I wish you'd turned in that application a little sooner," Neiley told Tyler Boebert at the time. But Tyler Boebert did not go with a public defender, after all. Police say Tyler Boebert was spotted in a Colorado store where a stolen credit card was used.

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☆ Trump completed pre-sentencing interview with New York probation office, source tells CNN
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Kristen Holmes | John Miller | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump completed his pre-sentencing interview with the New York City Department of Probation on Monday after his hush money trial conviction last month, a source familiar with the proceedings told CNN. “Earlier today, President Trump completed a routine interview with [the] New York Probation Office. Trump answered all questions in the virtual interview and was described as polite, respectful and accommodating to the probation officers, according to a New York City official familiar with the interview. The probation department did not rule out the possibility of a follow-up meeting, the source added. In a pre-sentencing interview, a defendant is typically asked about their conviction and other basic background information such as their employment and criminal history.

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☆ Trump to sit for probation interview as legal team prepares to fight hush money verdict
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump departs the courtroom after being found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. Donald Trump will participate in an interview Monday with a New York probation officer who will submit a report that could inform the sentence Trump receives for his criminal hush money conviction. The pre-sentence interview comes about a month before Trump is scheduled to become the first former U.S. president, and the first major-party presidential candidate, ever to be sentenced for a crime. Trump's attorney Todd Blanche will be present with his client for the interview, which they will attend virtually from Trump's Florida home Mar-a-Lago, according to NBC News, which first reported the timing of the post-conviction proceeding. A Trump campaign spokesman confirmed to CNBC that Monday's interview will be held virtually, and not in person.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Todd Blanche, Judge Juan Merchan Organizations: U.S, Manhattan Criminal, Trump, Mar, NBC News, CNBC Locations: New York City, York, U.S, Trump's Florida

Former U.S. President Trump found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records during his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court May 30th 2024 in New York City. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was convicted last month on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the historic case. The probation interview is required by the court as part of the former president's pre-sentencing report. Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the hush money case, permitted Blanche to be present for the probation interview over a video call after prosecutors did not object. Some legal experts noted that holding a probation interview over a video conference call is unusual but having the former president in a New York probation would also be unprecedented.

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CNN —Former President Donald Trump is scheduled for a pre-sentencing interview with a probation officer Monday after his hush money trial conviction last month, according to a Trump campaign official and two sources familiar with the matter. The interview will be virtual and, as CNN previously reported, Trump attorney Todd Blanche will be present. In the pre-sentencing interview, a defendant is typically asked about their conviction and other basic background information such as their employment and criminal history. “President Trump and his legal team are already taking necessary steps to challenge and defeat the lawless Manhattan DA case,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement Saturday. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office will also submit a memo telling the judge what sentence it sees fit for Trump.

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☆ Tough-on-crime former NYC judges say even they wouldn't sentence Trump to prison in the hush-money case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

AdvertisementWill Merchan sentence Donald Trump to jail? Merchan will not sentence Trump to prison, the four agreed. Merchan could theoretically sentence Trump to as little as a single day in Rikers, said Kamins, now in private practice at Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins. But even in the unlikely event of a low-jail sentence, Trump's appeals would keep him at liberty for years, all four judges said. "I certainly don't know what the right decision is, or what Judge Merchan will do," Obus told BI.

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☆ Google cut Uncle Sam a $2 million check so it could avoid a jury trial. A judge just agreed
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A US federal judge ruled on Friday that an antitrust lawsuit brought by the US government against Google will be decided by a judge and not a jury after Google wrote the government a check, paying back the full amount of monetary damages the lawsuit sought. The case regarding Google’s advertising technology is the first antitrust suit against a Big Tech company brought by the Biden administration. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s decision on Friday is a setback for the Justice Department, which sought a jury trial for the case. We’re glad the Court ruled that this case will be tried by a judge,” Schottenfels said. We look forward to making our case in court.”A hearing is set for June 21 on Google’s motion for summary dismissal, which would terminate the case without a trial.

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☆ Judge who oversaw Trump hush money trial flags post on the court’s webpage claiming to know the verdict before it came down
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Elizabeth Hartfield | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

“My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted Thank you folks for all your hard work!!! It is not clear if there is any validity to the post. A search of the poster’s Facebook page showed the poster described themself as “a professional sh*t poster,” among other things. “As appropriate, the Court informed the parties once it learned of this online content,” Al Baker, a spokesperson for the court, said. The requested testimonies and instructions were read back to them the next morning.

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☆ Manhattan DA opposes Trump bid to lift gag order after hush money conviction
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

New York prosecutors told a judge they oppose a request by former President Donald Trump to lift the gag order on him in his criminal hush money case. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office asked Judge Juan Merchan to keep the gag order on Trump in place "at least through the sentencing hearing" for the former president next month, and "the resolution of any post-trial motions." Trump's lawyers earlier this week asked Merchan to vacate the gag order, arguing that the grounds for it no longer exist because the trial had concluded, with Trump being convicted on all 34 felony counts. But prosecutors in their new letter to Merchan said the gag order was "based not only on the need to avoid threats to the fairness of the trial itself ... but also on the Court's broader 'obligation to prevent actual harm to the integrity of the proceedings.' Please check back for updates.

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☆ Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter pleads guilty to gambling-related theft charges
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( David K. Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani, leaves federal court in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 14, 2024. The former translator for Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges stemming from his multi-million-dollar thefts from the baseball icon. But federal prosecutors have made it clear that they purely view Ohtani as a victim of Mizuhara, who took advantage of the trust the player had in him. His first six seasons in North America were spent with the nearby Los Angeles Angels. The two-way star Ohtani is still recovering from an elbow injury that's keeping him off the mound in 2024 and limiting his action to the batter's box.

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☆ Why Biden’s escalation on Trump guilty verdict is so significant
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Other Trump cases are in suspended animationTwo federal cases against Trump, in which he’s also pleaded not guilty, are in a holding pattern. At the same time, multiple disputes in pre-trial motions have put the looming federal trial in Florida over Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents into suspended animation. But if Trump wins, he could appoint an attorney general who could halt the federal cases in their tracks. Garland is also likely to face scrutiny over the Hunter Biden trial. Republicans celebrated when a plea deal, which they saw as “sweetheart” treatment for Hunter Biden, collapsed in court.

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☆ The incredible oblivion of Judge Marvin Isgur
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Dakin Campbell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +45 min

On a mild Houston day in March 2021, Judge Marvin Isgur prepared to oversee the only case on his docket that morning. In October 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court rebuked Judge David Jones but said that his longtime colleague, Judge Marvin Isgur, had been "unaware" of Jones' inappropriate relationship. "But only Judge Isgur knows what he knew or didn't know about the relationship." Much of this work was in cases before either Judge Isgur or Judge Jones. Isgur can continue to hear the case, he ruled, writing in the December 2023 opinion that lawyers for the creditor "failed to demonstrate much other than that former Judge Jones and Judge Isgur are close friends."

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☆ Trump says he’s ‘okay’ with serving potential jail time or house arrest after historic conviction
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Kit Maher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump said he is “OK” with serving potential jail time or being under house arrest following his historic conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. “I’m OK with it,” Trump told Fox News in an interview that aired Sunday when asked about the potential punishments. Merchan could sentence Trump to probation or up to 4 years in state prison on each count, with a maximum of 20 years. “I’m fighting for the Constitution,” Trump said, adding that the trial had been “tougher” on his family than himself. Speaking specifically of his wife, former first lady Melania Trump, the former president said, “She’s fine, but I think it’s very hard for her.

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☆ Recapping the Trump hush money charges, trial, verdict and questions
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Dan Berman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The indictment alleged that Trump was a part of an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election. While hush money payments are not illegal in themselves, each charge was tied to a specific allegedly false entry among the financial records of the Trump Organization. Trump has argued that the payments to Michael Cohen, his former fixer who paid Daniels, were correctly labeled as legal expenses. Trump railed against the gag order every day during the trial and again on May 31 when he spoke at Trump Tower the day after the verdict. And the Georgia election interference case is in legal limbo while Trump and several of his co-defendants try to disqualify the Atlanta-area prosecutor who brought the charges.

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☆ Live updates: Trump found guilty in hush money trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Deva Lee | Leinz Vales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Here’s what to know about the case following Trump’s conviction:When will Trump be sentenced? Judge Juan Merchan has set Trump’s sentencing for 10 a.m. Shortly after Trump was convicted, his attorney Todd Blanche asked Merchan for an acquittal of the charges notwithstanding the guilty verdict. However, if a Floridian’s conviction is out of state, Florida defers to that state’s laws for how felon can regain their voting rights. Read more on the aftermath of Trump's guilty verdict.

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☆ What rights does Trump lose as a felon? And more of your questions, answered
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In New York, where Trump was convicted, there are “collateral consequences” of being convicted of a felony. In Florida, felons lose civil rights, including the ability to hold public office and serve on a jury. Trump is a Florida resident, and Florida defers to New York law on the question of felons voting. In New York, convicted felons cannot obtain a permit to possess a firearm. That’s not at issue in this New York case, and it’s not going to happen when Republicans control the House as they currently do.

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Read previewFormer President Donald Trump's historic conviction on Thursday may have been in part due to mistakes made by his defense team, including not having him take the stand, legal experts told Business Insider. Though the conclusion of the case was significant, three legal experts told BI the verdict wasn't a major shock. AdvertisementHe pointed to opening statements made by Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, that Rahmani thought suggested an accountant would testify and serve as a fall guy. AdvertisementNot long before resting their case, the defense told the judge they were still weighing having Trump testify. Some legal experts previous said testifying would not be a good idea for Trump, with concerns that he could end up committing perjury.

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