The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday about whether officials in the state of Colorado and other states have the authority to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. Even the most liberal justices, including Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, were skeptical of the claims coming from attorneys for the state. "The argument is now over. The disqualification advocates may have expected a cold reception, but this was perfectly glacial. Notably, some of the toughest and most skeptical questions came from the left of the Court," George Washington...

Former President Trump on Thursday blasted a Supreme Court hearing over his eligibility to be on the ballot in Colorado as an example of “election interference,” but seemed to express confidence that the arguments from his side were well received. “It’s unfortunate that we have to go through a thing like that. I consider it to be more election interference by the Democrats,” Trump said in remarks from his Mar-a-Lago estate shortly after arguments concluded at the Supreme Court. Trump said he listened to the hearing and called it a...

Former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins that former President Donald Trump is likely to lose if he appeals the bombshell ruling on his presidential immunity claims. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Trump’s appeal in a 57-page opinion Tuesday in a blistering opinion that stunned many analysts with its force and clarity. On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins asked Parlatore about the prospect of a Supreme Court appeal, namely, “What argument does his legal team have left?” Parlatore...

The Supreme Court is set to hold oral arguments Thursday over former President Trump’s ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment, a historic showdown that has thrust the justices into the center of the 2024 presidential election. Beginning just after 10 a.m., the nine justices will hear an appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that kicks Trump off the state’s primary ballot. The justices will hear from attorneys for six voters in the state who brought the lawsuit as well as lawyers representing Trump and the Colorado secretary of state....

The Supreme Court has set aside 80 minutes for arguments in today’s historic dispute over whether former President Donald Trump disqualified himself from the ballot for his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. In reality, the debate will carry on for much longer. Trump’s attorney, Jonathan Mitchell, is expected to kick off the arguments a little after 10 a.m. ET with a brief opening statement and will then field a barrage of questions from the bench. Jason Murray, representing the Colorado voters who challenged Trump,...

Former President Donald Trump’s appeal of a Colorado Supreme Court decision that removed him from the state’s primary ballot drew a crowd of overnight bystanders outside the steps of the highest court in Washington, D.C., Wednesday evening in hopes that they might have a chance to witness the historic 14th Amendment dispute. Trump’s appeal stems from a lawsuit filed by a group of Colorado voters seeking to disqualify him from holding the office of president under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Outside the Supreme Court steps on Wednesday evening,...

I mean it is ugly to declare that somebody is deleting death threats against oneself to hinder the course of justice. She did not bring it up and so nobody else should do so. It was a gambit by Trump to make it look suspicious and the venture has miserably failed. Judge Lewis Kaplan has denied former President Donald Trump's motion to declare a mistrial and place sanctions in the E. Jean Carroll case, reported MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin. The motion was based on the fact that Carroll, a...

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team wants to try a presidential immunity claim slapped down in one case as a defense in another, according to a new report and court records. Trump’s attorneys Tuesday gave notice to Judge Aileen Cannon — the Florida federal judge overseeing his classified documents case — that they plan to file presidential immunity arguments, CNN was first to . “Although the defense is still evaluating potential motions,” attorneys Todd Blanche and Chris Kise, “we expect to file motions on February 22 relating to, inter alia,...