SCOTUS
The New York City mayor has begun formally challenging last week’s bribery and fraud indictment.His arguments in Monday’s motion to dismiss amount to this: SCOTUS lets me do it.A recent Supreme Court decision helps Adams by requiring a specific quid-pro-quo to prove bribery. In his first formal attack on last…
Late Thursday morning, Donald Trump lost his last state-level appeal of his hush-money gag order. He now remains barred from attacking the staff and family members of the trial judge and the Manhattan district attorney until after a newly-delayed sentencing date of November 26.Hours later, a federal appellate court delivered…
In a new court filing made public Thursday, lawyers for former President Donald Trump argue that his newly-won presidential immunity voids not only his hush-money conviction, but the indictment itself.”No President of the United States has ever been treated as unfairly and unlawfully as District Attorney Bragg has acted towards…
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – Purdue Pharma on Tuesday asked a U.S. bankruptcy judge for a 60-day freeze on lawsuits against its owners, members of the wealthy Sackler family, in its first court appearance since a landmark Supreme Court ruling upended its bankruptcy settlement. Purdue’s attorney Marshall Huebner…
In two separate rulings over the last 48 hours, the conservative majority of the United States Supreme Court overturned a 40-year-old precedent that has been long attacked by the right — and has stripped out some of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s financial-fraud enforcement capabilities.Justice Elena Kagan, in her dissent…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to have inadvertently posted an opinion in a closely watched Idaho case that would be the last abortion-related decision of the high court’s current term.Bloomberg News first reported that a copy of the decision was briefly posted on the court’s website and then later…
