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☆ The Various Mr. Ripleys
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Brian Tallerico | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One of fiction’s most famous impostors returns on Thursday with the debut of Netflix’s “Ripley,” the latest adaptation of a character invented in the 1950s by the author Patricia Highsmith. Over nearly seven decades, Tom Ripley has appeared in five books by Highsmith, five films, multiple television episodes and even a radio show. He has been played by interpreters as varied as Matt Damon, Alain Delon, Dennis Hopper, John Malkovich and now, Andrew Scott. What makes him fascinating is his willingness to go to murderous lengths to secure it. As a new version of Tom Ripley arrives, here is a look at how this grifter has evolved over the generations.

Persons: Netflix’s “ Ripley, ”, Patricia Highsmith, Oscar, Steven Zaillian, Tom Ripley, Highsmith, Matt Damon, Alain Delon, Dennis Hopper, John Malkovich, Andrew Scott, Ripley

If she does not course-correct, she’s headed for another shellacking by the circuit – and possible removal from the case. That statute outlines the parameters between a president’s official and personal records, and sets up processes for how official documents are preserved. If this were true, the mere fact that Trump took the documents with him from the White House would inherently turn them into personal records. Importantly, Smith asked Cannon to let both parties know “promptly” how she viewed the law. Ejecting her from the case would be extremely unusual and Smith does not mention seeking it in his papers.

Persons: Norman Eisen, Trump, Danya Perry, Perry Guha, Joshua Kolb, Jack Smith, Donald Trump’s, Smith, Aileen Cannon, Donald, Cannon, she’s, counterarguments, Cannon’s, ”, fashioning, “ Organizations: Democrats, Brookings, New, Public, CNN, Appeals, Circuit, Trump, Records, National Archives, Records Administration, White Locations: Lago, Bedminster , New Jersey

☆ How legal fights and stalling by judge could push Trump documents trial after election
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Tierney Sneed | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The longer it takes for Cannon to decide these issues, the more likely a trial would need to wait until after the November presidential election. But Cannon’s critics view the pace of the Trump prosecution with added suspicion because of how she handled a separate, 2022 lawsuit Trump brought attacking the FBI’s documents investigation. In that lawsuit, Cannon granted an extraordinary Trump request for a third-party review of the FBI’s 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago resort for the classified documents. Now, critics accuse Cannon of – purposely or not – playing into Trump’s strategy of delaying the trial until after the election. Hours after the hearing, Cannon rejected Trump’s first claim, that the national defense law he is charged under was too vague.

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☆ Special counsel blasts judge’s jury instruction request in Trump documents case
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In an unusual order last month, Cannon asked attorneys on the classified documents case to submit briefs on potential jury instructions defining terms of the Espionage Act, under which Trump is charged over mishandling 32 classified records. Specifically, Cannon asked the special counsel and defense attorneys to write two versions of proposed jury instructions. Trump’s attorneys claim he did have that authority and have asked the judge to throw out the criminal charges. “Medical science has not yet devised an instrument which can record what was in one’s mind in the distant past,” Trump’s attorneys wrote. Cannon appeared skeptical that the charges should be outright dismissed during the hearing, but she said that Trump’s attorneys were making “forceful” arguments that may be appropriate to present to a trial jury.

Persons: Aileen Cannon, Donald Trump, Jack Smith, ” Smith’s, Cannon, Trump, ”, ’ Organizations: CNN, Presidential Records, White, ”, “, Prosecutors, Trump, National Archives, Mar Locations: Lago

☆ Mike Roman: Former Trump campaign official subpoenaed in Arizona probe of efforts to overturn 2020 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Zachary Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A former Trump 2020 campaign official has been subpoenaed by officials in Arizona as part of the criminal investigation focused on efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s win, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The official, Mike Roman, is also one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election subversion case. He’s being subpoenaed by prosecutors as part of a separate state-level probe overseen by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat. The subpoenas suggest the probe is accelerating ahead of the 2024 presidential election, when Trump is expected to again face Biden as the Republican nominee. Among those who have been interviewed by Arizona prosecutors in recent months is pro-Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro.

Persons: CNN —, Joe Biden’s, Mike Roman, Donald Trump’s, He’s, Kris Mayes, Mayes, Trump, Biden, she’s, ” Mayes, “ We’re, Roman, Kenneth Chesebro, Trump’s unindicted, Jack, Chesebro Organizations: CNN, Trump, Arizona, Republican, ABC News, Prosecutors, Communications, Capitol Locations: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan , Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin

☆ Trump is just 3 weeks from becoming the first ex-president to go on trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Yet the moment that history is likely to remember most clearly unfolded in a Manhattan courtroom where Trump sat seething as a judge thwarted his latest delaying tactics and set a date for his hush money trial. Of course, it’s also possible that Trump could be acquitted in this criminal case. It is a mark of the depth of Trump’s legal hole that a reduced requirement to post a bond worth $175 million counts as a big win. Already clashing with another judgeTurning to Judge Juan Merchan, who took the gloss off of the ex-president’s day by scheduling the trial date, Trump issued another bitter complaint. Trump’s looming criminal trial presents a challenge and an opportunity for the Biden campaign.

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☆ Opinion | Will A.I. Take All Our Jobs? This Economist Suggests Maybe Not.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Let’s say for now that the day comes when robots and artificial intelligence can outperform human beings at every conceivable job, from waxing floors to waxing eyebrows to waxing philosophical at a lectern. “It’s very possible that regular humans will have plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of A.I. dominance — often doing much the same kind of work that they’re doing right now,” he wrote Sunday on his Substack. I ran Smith’s argument by several economists who think a lot about these issues, and they were skeptical. But there’s so much pessimism around the future of work these days that Smith’s take comes as a welcome ray of sunshine.

Persons: Noah Smith, “, ”, Smith, Martha Stewart Organizations: Revolution

Trump’s legal tactic of pursuing delays and elevating smoke-and-mirror sideshows has dramatically increased the odds that any halt of his ascent to the presidency will instead have to come from voters at the ballot box in November. Many experts agree that was Trump’s principal legal “strategy” from the outset. We need at least four delays – delay, delay, delay, delay – when we talk about the Trump strategy to match the four trials,” says Norm Eisen, former special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during Trump’s first impeachment trial. Eisen says that even with the hiccups prosecutor incurred this week, the delay strategy can only take Trump so far. “I think the delay, delay, delay, delay tactic is going to run out of steam and we’re certain to see one criminal trial of the former president for 2016 election interference and we may very well see multiple trials,” Eisen said.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, ”, Norm Eisen, Trump’s, Fani Willis, Willis, Nathan Wade, Scott McAfee, Wade, McAfee, Aileen Cannon, Cannon, Jack Smith’s, Smith, Stormy Daniels, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Bragg, Eisen, ” Eisen, “ Organizations: Republican, White, Trump, Presidential Records, Manhattan, Attorney, Southern, of, Justice Department Locations: Fulton County, Georgia, of New York, Florida

The ruling was not related to a defense effort to disqualify Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., who is leading the case. Count 5 concerned a call that Mr. Trump made to David Ralston, who was then the speaker of the Georgia House. During that conversation Mr. Trump pressed Mr. Ralston to call a special legislative session to appoint new electors. Mr. Trump and his former personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, had faced the most charges, at 13 apiece. They include Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, and John Eastman, a legal architect of the plot to deploy fake electors in swing states that Mr. Trump lost.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Scott McAfee, Fani, Willis, “, importuned, Brad Raffensperger, ”, McAfee, Steven H, Count, Raffensperger, Joseph R, Biden, David Ralston, Ralston, Rudolph W, Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Ray Smith III, Robert Cheeley, Anthony Michael Kreis, Kreis, Donald Trump, ” Norman Eisen, Eisen, Smith’s, Don Samuel, Ray Smith, Brian Kemp of, Nathan Wade Organizations: Fulton Superior Court, Prosecutors, Count, Trump, White House, Georgia State University, Act . Defense, Gov, Republican Locations: Atlanta, Georgia, Fulton, Fulton County ,, Brian Kemp of Georgia

☆ Takeaways from the hearing on Trump’s attempt to dismiss the mishandling classified documents charges
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Tierney Sneed | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Before the judge were two of the nine motions to dismiss that the defendants have filed in the case. “It’s difficult to see how this gets you to the dismissal of an indictment,” the judge told Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche. Cannon said some of Trump’s concerns should be up to the juryThe judge repeatedly said Thursday that some of Trump’s arguments are best suited for a jury to decide during his eventual trial. Reagan’s journals were more akin to “personal records” as defined under the Presidential Records Act, they said. In Clinton’s case, the tapes were never reviewed and therefore never confirmed to contain classified information.

Persons: Aileen Cannon, Donald Trump, Trump, Cannon, Emile Bove, Bove, ” Cannon, “, ”, Todd Blanche, Reagan, Clinton, Biden, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden’s, wasn’t, Jack Smith’s, Robert Hur’s, Jay Bratt Organizations: Pierce , Florida CNN, Presidential, White, Trump, Department, Presidential Records Locations: Pierce , Florida, Lago

☆ With Trump set to return to court, his delaying strategy is working so far
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Trump’s efforts to run out the clock on his federal election trial are also bearing fruit. The New York criminal case involves a hush money payment to a former adult film actress. He wants the judge to push back the trial until after the Supreme Court rules on his presidential immunity case. This seems a long shot since the hush money payment was made before the 2016 election and before Trump took office. Why the credibility of the legal system depends on due processTrump’s motivation in delaying the trials is not just to put off his multiple days of judgment.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, –, Jack Smith’s, Aileen Cannon, Joe Biden –, Cannon, Fani Willis, Scott McAfee, McAfee, Willis, Smith’s, Tanya Chutkan, Jamie Raskin, ” Raskin, CNN’s Manu Raju, we’ve, ”, Sen, Jen Jordan, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, ” Jordan, Jean Carroll Organizations: CNN, Republican, Trump, New, Maryland Democratic, Capitol, ” Former, Trump Organization Locations: Florida, Georgia, Fort Pierce , Florida, Fulton County, New York, ” Former Georgia, Peach

I ended up loading all the luggage I had – and he had a bunch of boxes,” Butler said of Nauta. But I also have a bad feeling that what I’m saying is getting him into trouble,” Butler told CNN. Given his long history at Trump’s club, Butler shed light on potentially critical instances related to the disclosure of classified information. De Oliveira hung up the phone, happily, and told Butler that Trump would provide him an attorney, Butler says. I think we went to sit down,” Butler told CNN.

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☆ What an intense weekend on the campaign trail tells us about a Biden-Trump matchup
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

An intense weekend of campaigning, with the rivals both visiting the critical swing state of Georgia, laid out the stakes of their clash – as well as their strategies and vulnerabilities. Still, a successful State of the Union address can clarify a president’s purpose not just to voters – but to himself and his own campaign. Backstage in Georgia, Trump met the parents of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old nursing student who was allegedly killed by an undocumented migrant. Biden’s campaign knows it must do more to defuse concerns about his capacity to fully serve a second term. “Here’s a guy who’s kicking off his general election campaign up the road with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Biden, Trump, won’t, Aileen Cannon, Jack Smith’s, Robert Hur, Pete Buttigieg, “, Biden’s, he’ll, ”, Viktor Orbán, ” Orbán, –, Nikki Haley, Laken Riley, ” Georgia Democratic Sen, Raphael Warnock, “ craven, Riley, dithering, I’m, ” Biden, “ Donald Trump, Hur, Georgia –, “ Joe Biden, ” Warnock, Brian Kemp, hasn’t, Marjorie Taylor Greene, MAGA Organizations: CNN, GOP, Republicans, Transportation, ABC News, Trump, South Carolina Gov, CNN’s, Union, ”, ” Georgia Democratic, MSNBC, Court, Trump Republicans, Georgia Locations: Georgia, Florida, Mar, Hungarian, Hungary, CNN’s “ State, ” Georgia, State, New Hampshire , Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, “ State

A longtime Democratic stronghold and home to the city of Atlanta, Fulton County will present an uphill challenge for Kramer, a vocal Trump supporter. I’m very passionate about making sure the citizens of Fulton County feel confident in their DA,” he added. He lost the primary to Willis and former District Attorney Paul Howard, whom he later endorsed in a runoff. Asked if he believes that Willis has the support of Fulton County after her testimony, Dickens told CNN: “Yes. In that case, like she’s attempting to do with Trump and his allies, Willis used the racketeering statute as a tool to build a broad conspiracy case.

Persons: Fani Willis, Donald Trump, Christian Wise Smith, Willis, Courtney Kramer, Kramer, Trump, Joe Biden, Nathan Wade, Wise Smith, “, ”, Smith, Paul Howard, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, Dickens, Willis ’, it’s, It’s Donald Trump, ” Dickens, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, Charlie Bailey, Reginald Jackson, Gerald Griggs, Griggs, “ I’m, ” Willis, Young Thug Organizations: CNN, Fulton, White, Trump, Democratic, DA, Georgia Democrats, Atlanta Mayor, Democrat, City Hall, AME, Georgia NAACP Locations: Fulton County, Georgia, Atlanta, of Atlanta

☆ Gary Goldsmith, uncle of Catherine, Princess of Wales, joins ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ house
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Gary Goldsmith, an uncle of Catherine, Princess of Wales, has joined the “Celebrity Big Brother” house alongside contestants including Sharon Osbourne and Marisha Wallace, for a new series starting in the United Kingdom this week. In an introductory video, Goldsmith described himself as “uncle to the future Queen of our country, Catherine Middleton, the current Princess of Wales.”Goldsmith is the brother of Catherine’s mother, Carole Middleton. Goldsmith said his niece was “simply perfect” and described how the first time he met William, Prince of Wales, the royal offered him a cup of tea. Goldsmith pictured entering the Celebrity Big Brother house. Why is Gary Goldsmith in the house?” reads one post on X.

Persons: Gary Goldsmith, Catherine , Princess of Wales, ”, Sharon Osbourne, Marisha Wallace, Goldsmith, Catherine Middleton, Wales, ” Goldsmith, Catherine’s, Carole Middleton, “, William, Prince of Wales, I’ve, James Veysey, Anita Singh, Osbourne, Louis Walsh, Nikita Kuzmin, Su Cülcüloğlu Organizations: CNN, UK’s, Media, . Media, Daily Telegraph, ITV, ITV1 Locations: United Kingdom

☆ Sam Smith opens Vivienne Westwood’s Fall-Winter 2024 show in Paris
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The discombobulating outfit was, in fact, the opening look of Vivienne Westwood’s Fall-Winter 2024 show in Paris — a collection that has proved divisive online. “Vivienne Westwood will be turning in her grave watching Sam Smith in this get up,” wrote one disgruntled fan on X. While many online lamented how Kronthaler’s latest season has “defiled” and “tainted” Westwood’s fashion reputation. The 1990s era of Vivienne Westwood was defined by shape and silhouette, as demonstrated here with Linda Evangelista walking the Fall-Winter 1995 show in Paris. Kronthaler's first solo show for Vivienne Westwood at Paris Fashion Week felt more aligned with the brand's popular 90s silhouettes.

Persons: Sam Smith, trudging, fanny, Mel Gibson’s, Vivienne Westwood’s, Andreas Kronthaler, —, Pascal Le Segretain, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Gen, ”, Linda Evangelista, PL, Kronthaler, Kate Moss, “, Vivienne Westwood's, Giovanni Giannoni, Bella Hadid, Kronthaler's Organizations: CNN, Westwood, PL Gould, Vogue, Penske Media, Paris Fashion, Financial Times Locations: Paris, Sharpie

☆ Sinéad O’Connor’s estate wants Donald Trump to stop using her music
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

London CNN —The estate of Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor has called on Donald Trump to stop using one of her songs during campaign events, the latest in a string of similar requests from artists who have decided they don’t want to be associated with the former US president. “It was with outrage therefore that we learned that Donald Trump has been using her iconic performance of Nothing Compares 2 U at his political rallies,” it continues. “As the guardians of her legacy, we demand that Donald Trump, and his associates desist from using her music immediately,” it concluded. 1 in 1990, buoyed by a music video that featured O’Connor, with close-cropped hair and a dark turtleneck. In 2020, the Rolling Stones threatened legal action against Trump’s campaign for using their music at his campaign rallies, and Tom Petty’s family issued a cease-and-desist notice to the Trump campaign after “I Won’t Back Down” was played at a rally.

Persons: Sinéad O’Connor, Donald Trump, ”, O’Connor, Tom Petty’s, Trump, “, Adele, Steven Tyler Organizations: London CNN, Chrysalis Records, CNN, Linkin, Trump, Republican Locations: Dublin, London

☆ No. 2 Senate Democrat says ‘killing has to stop’ in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Aileen Graef | Michelle Shen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

2 Democrat in the Senate, said Sunday that the killing of innocent people in Gaza “has to stop” and that the United States needs to focus on securing a ceasefire and, eventually, an end to the conflict. “This killing has to stop of the innocent people there. More than 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s war with Hamas began in October, according to the health ministry in Gaza. Durbin’s comments came a day after news that Israelis have “basically accepted” a six-week ceasefire proposal in Gaza, according to a senior Biden administration official. People mourn as they receive the bodies of victims of an Israeli strike on March 3, 2024, in Rafah, Gaza.

Persons: CNN — Sen, Dick Durbin of, it’s, ” Durbin, CNN’s Dana, ”, Durbin, Democratic Sen, Chris Murphy of, ” Murphy, it’s “, Joe Biden, Benjamin, Durbin’s, “, Israel, “ We’re, ” Biden, Ahmad Hasaballah, Biden, uncommitted ”, Bash, Donald Trump, Jack Smith’s Organizations: CNN, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Union, Hamas, United Nations, Democratic, Washington Post, US Central Command, Biden, White House, Arab, Supreme Locations: Gaza, United States, “ State, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, U.S, Israel, Cairo, Rafah, Michigan

☆ Judge to Decide Timing of Trump Classified Documents Trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A federal judge in Florida will hold a hearing on Friday to pick a new date for former President Donald J. Trump’s trial on charges of mishandling classified documents, a move that is likely to have major consequences for his legal and political future. What remains to be seen is just how long of a delay Judge Cannon ends up imposing. On Thursday evening, Mr. Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, sent Judge Cannon their proposals about when the trial should begin. Mr. Smith’s legal team, hewing to its long-held position of trying to conduct the trial before Election Day, requested a date of July 8. But after months of seeking to delay the trial until next year, Mr. Trump’s lawyers suddenly reversed themselves and suggested a date of Aug. 12.

Persons: Donald J, Aileen M, Cannon, Jack Smith, Judge Cannon, hewing Organizations: Federal, Court Locations: Florida, Fort Pierce, Fla

In Florida, Trump’s attorneys told Judge Aileen Cannon his Mar-a-Lago classified documents case should wait until after the 2024 election. But both hearings could have a significant impact on when – or whether – Trump will face trial in each of those two cases. The only case that appears set: Trump’s New York criminal trial will begin March 25, which Trump’s attorneys said was a “firm” date in court Friday. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis attends a hearing on the Georgia election interference case on Friday in Atlanta. When Trump’s attorneys argued for the hearing, Cannon pushed them to describe how they could narrow its scope and asked them to lay out specifically what a hearing would examine.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Aileen Cannon, Scott McAfee, Fani Willis, Nathan Wade, – Trump, Jack Smith’s, Willis, Wade, McAfee, Craig Gillen, Alex Slitz, “ We’ve, ”, Gillen, David Shafer, “, ” Gillen, Cannon, Jack Smith, –, Todd Blanche, ” Blanche, Jay Bratt, ” Bratt, ” Cannon, Trump, David Harbach, Biden, Harbach, Emil Bove, ” McAfee, Terrence Bradley, Donald Trump, Steve Sadow, Bradley –, What’s, they’ve, They’ve, Sadow, Bradley, ” Sadow Organizations: CNN, Trump, Fulton, Georgia Republican, “ Prosecutors, ”, Justice Department, Prosecutors, Biden White, FBI Locations: Florida, Georgia, Fulton County, Washington, York, Atlanta

☆ How the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s immunity could turn on a single question
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( John Fritze | Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The Supreme Court will likely produce thousands of words when it decides this year whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity from special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion charges. Every time the Supreme Court grants an appeal it settles on a specific legal question to resolve. In the immunity matter, the court didn’t embrace Trump’s framing – nor the question Smith posed when he sought review on the same issue in December. “The question implicitly rejects Trump’s position of absolute immunity because of that language ‘whether…and to what extent,’” Eisen said. By taking the appeal, the Supreme Court has effectively pushed back the start of a trial in the federal election subversion case by weeks, at least.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith’s, ”, Norm Eisen, Obama, Trump, Smith, ” Eisen, “, there’s, Andrew McCabe, –, Ty Cobb, Trump’s, Mark Meadows, William Pryor, George W, Bush, ” Pryor, Meadows’s, Sri Srinivasan, Barack Obama Organizations: CNN, Trump, Court, Senate, Trump White, DC Locations: –, Georgia

☆ Opinion | Trump Should Lose. But the Supreme Court Should Still Clarify Immunity.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Lee Kovarsky | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Supreme Court has never squarely resolved whether a president’s in-term conduct is immune from criminal prosecution because, before Donald Trump, there were no indicted ex-presidents. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided to review a decision from a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which rejected Mr. Trump’s claim of presidential immunity in an opinion that was thorough and unanimous. The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case means that Mr. Trump’s trial remains in limbo — and the timing of proceedings will likely impact the 2024 presidential election. All short-term politics aside, the Supreme Court confronts an extraordinary question of American governance: Are ex-presidents immune from prosecution for in-term conduct? And, if so, how much immunity do they have?

Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith’s, —, Trump’s Organizations: Washington , D.C, Supreme, U.S ., Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit Locations: Washington ,

☆ Special counsel wants to know if potential jurors in classified documents case believe 2020 election was stolen
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Tierney Sneed | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Prosecutors and defense attorneys submitted a list of questions for potential jurors for the judge overseeing the case to review. The proposed jury questionnaire form gives insight into how each side in the case is approaching voir dire, or the process of questioning potential jurors, for the historic trial. The special counsel also opposes a question proposed by the defense seeking negative views potential jurors have of politicians. The documents case is one of four criminal prosecutions the former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner is facing. Meanwhile, the Georgia election interference case against Trump and several other defendants brought has been tied up by ethics allegations against District Attorney Fani Willis.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith’s, Trump, He’s, Walt Nauta, Carlos De Oliveira, There’s, Smith, Attorney Fani Willis Organizations: Washington CNN —, Justice Department, FBI, Prosecutors, Manhattan District Attorney, Trump, Attorney Locations: Lago, Washington ,, Georgia

☆ Trump uses the slow legal system to his advantage. The Supreme Court is helping
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Joan Biskupic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The justices’ intervention in the case, Trump v. United States, also marks another milestone in the fraught relationship between the court and the former president. And in fighting special counsel Jack Smith’s case, the Supreme Court has become an ally of sorts, despite the expedited schedule. That Supreme Court ruling was expected to come soon. First Trump trial is in less than a monthFor now it appears that Trump’s first criminal trial will be in New York on March 25. Posted Trump, “Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?”But that’s not today.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, Jack Smith’s, hewed, ’ Trump, Smith, ”, Tanya Chutkan, Smith’s, Trump’s, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Stormy Daniels Organizations: CNN, Trump, ., DC Circuit, Capitol, US, DC, Circuit, Appeals, Trump v ., “, Colorado Supreme, Manhattan, Attorney Locations: . United States, Washington ,, ‘, Trump v, Trump v . United States, Colorado, New York, Florida, Fort Pierce

☆ Supreme Court to decide Trump immunity claim, further delaying election subversion trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Donald Trump may claim immunity in special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case, adding another explosive appeal from the former president to its docket and further delaying his federal trial. The high court on Wednesday ordered that a lower court ruling against Trump remain on hold until it decides the issue. As is common when granting a case, the court released only a short order and did not indicate how the justices voted. Trump had filed an emergency request at the Supreme Court on February 12 asking the justices to block a lower court ruling that he was not immune from Smith’s election subversion charges. Trump and Smith filed dueling briefs at the Supreme Court over whether the decision should be put on hold.

Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith’s, Trump, It’s, Smith, SCOTUS, Steve Vladeck, “, ” Vladeck, ”, Vladeck, Tanya Chutkan, Trump’s, Karen LeCraft Henderson, Florence Pan, Michelle Childs, eviscerated, Gore, George W, Bush, Al Gore, CNN’s Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole Organizations: CNN, Supreme, Republican, Trump, DC Circuit, University of Texas School of Law Locations: New York, Bush

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