Trump News for Thursday, December 21, 2023

Trump attorney Jesse Binnall says "real" DOJ would take action against them and "other judges" if Trump wins.

Stories about an Ohio fetal personhood case, the Iceland volcano eruption, Barbenheimer revisited, and more.

The left’s legal assault on Trump is a threat to the institution—and that’s by design.

Colorado ruling barring Trump from the ballot goes beyond a matter of law and its implications will be deeply political for the 45th president’s drive to retake the White House

Former President Donald Trump is asking a federal appeals court to delay his defamation trial set for next month in a lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll so he can consider other legal moves, including potentially taking the case to the US Supreme Court.

When it comes to news, 2023 was no slouch. Generative AI, the Israel-Hamas war, former President Trump's indictments, the Taylor Swift era ... we could go on and on. (And...

A report from The New York Times suggests that Democrats are using the 14th Amendment as the "cure-all" to stop Donald Trump. Washington Post political columnist Greg Sargent is calling the report a lazy assessment. "For as long as Donald J. Trump has dominated Republican politics, many Democrats ha...

Mayor turned Trump lawyer turned debtor has extensive list of claimants clamoring for his assets, which he valued at $1m-$10m

In a matter of weeks, the Supreme Court has taken center stage in former President Trump’s legal battles poised to dominate the 2024 presidential race.  The justices were already grappling with two cases implicating Trump’s criminal charges when, on Tuesday, a new headache emerged: whether Trump can be barred from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. …

Giuliani was previously Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.

Colorado throws Trump into a “Rick and Morty” event that’s sure to lead to broken catsup bottles

Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani files for bankruptcy one day after a federal judge ruled he must immediately pay two Georgia election workers the $148 million defamation judgment determined by a Washington jury.

Editorial: A shock ruling by the state’s supreme court has barred him from its presidential ballot

Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay his D.C. election subversion case, knocking the "rush" to decide.

A court order barring the former US president from Colorado’s primary polls has cast a shadow on his candidacy. How the 6 January case of alleged insurrection is resolved will be watched worldwide.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the one thing he would change about the dynamics of the 2024 Republican presidential primary would be the indictments issued against former President Donald Trump, which he says “distorted”the race.

Late-night hosts respond to the Colorado supreme court’s decision to remove Trump from the ballot, citing the 14th amendment’s insurrection clause

As evangelicalism becomes a ‘bottom-up’ religion, congregations are pressuring their pastors to offer a more hard-edged political message.

Special counsel Jack Smith again urged the Supreme Court to weigh former President Trump’s efforts to toss his election interference prosecution as a lower court considers Trump’s argument he is immune from prosecution as a former executive. The swift reply comes after Trump on Wednesday argued acceptance of the case by the high court would…

New York State Attorney General Letitia James' appearance was seemingly mocked by Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba in a speech.

Jack Smith says court should make decision on whether former president is immune from criminal prosecution on federal charges

Voters decide elections, but the Supreme Court is poised to play an outsize role in next year's contest for president as it appears likely to consider former President Donald Trump's legal appeals and a key abortion case.

In a special episode of Decoder, host Nilay Patel talks with Marty Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, and Zoe Schiffer, managing editor of Platformer, about the death of Twitter.

Donald Trump says he is immune from prosecution for trying to undo his election loss to President Biden. The Supreme Court is likely to ultimately rule on that.

Former President Donald Trump said he's "not an insurrectionist" in apparent response to the Colorado Supreme Court's removing him from the state's 2024 primary ballot.