Just as the Supreme Court created new constitutional law last year when it gave Presidents broad immunity to criminal prosecution, it would have to do that again if it can be persuaded to give President-elect Donald Trump what he now seeks. In last July’s 5-4 ruling, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., insisted that the… Read More

Donald Trump, long obsessed with his public image, is intensifying his efforts to enter the Presidency this month without a criminal record. His lawyers moved on three legal fronts Monday and opened another today, seeking to prevent further damaging government actions against him. The first of those efforts occurred on the day that a joint… Read More

Not since the age of the personal computer dawned in the early 1970s has the Supreme Court faced a more challenging Information Age task. Back in session this week, the Justices will try to figure out whether 14 words written into the Constitution 234 years ago allow the government to regulate the Internet of today…. Read More

Donald Trump will be sworn into office as President this month with 34 guilty verdicts still intact, unless he can persuade higher courts to erase those convictions swiftly. That is the result that could follow a scathing new ruling Friday by a New York state trial judge. In addition, Trump may be inaugurated after being… Read More

A state judge in New York, becoming the first court in the nation to apply the Supreme Court’s historic grant of presidential immunity to criminal prosecution, ruled on Monday night that Donald Trump cannot apply that ruling to his 34 guilty verdicts, reached by a Manhattan jury last May. In a 41-page opinion, Judge Juan… Read More

New York prosecutors have urged a state judge to adopt a plan that would keep intact the 34 guilty verdicts against Donald Trump, and allow him to be sentenced after he leaves office in the future, maybe in January 2029 at the end of his new term as President. They did not ask for prison… Read More

Donald Trump is halfway through a two-year campaign to defeat the criminal charges against him, but the other half may be more difficult or at least may take longer to carry out. With about six weeks to go before he becomes President again, his legal team this week stepped up their efforts to end the… Read More

The U.S. Constitution, tainted from the beginning by the sin of slavery, ultimately has come to be a promise of human equality. But that has happened only gradually, and the process has an uncertain future. The process faces another test on Wednesday, when the Supreme Court for the first time explores whether to assure a… Read More

A federal judge in the nation’s capital, acting at the request of a special federal prosecutor, on Monday blocked a criminal trial of Donald Trump while he serves his new term in the Presidency, but left a trial in the future open as an option. Trump, though, could erase that option once in office. The… Read More

Prosecutors in New York told a state judge on Tuesday that they will try to prevent Donald Trump’s move to overturn his one criminal conviction, in a case growing out of his 2016 election to the Presidency, the first time he won. At the same time, however, prosecutors said they will not oppose a delay… Read More