Former U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a legal motion backing media requests for live television coverage of his federal trial on charges he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In the late Friday filing, Trump argued that prosecutors want the trial held "in darkness" as part of what he claims is a politically motivated effort by President Joe Biden's administration to undermine his bid for re-election next year. Biden is expected to win the Democratic Party's nomination to a second term.
A federal judge in Florida on Friday declined to delay Donald Trump’s classified documents trial, calling a request by the former president's defense lawyers to postpone the date “premature.” The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is at least a modest victory for special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which had vigorously rejected efforts to push off the trial beyond its scheduled start date of May 20, 2024. Trump's lawyers had argued that they needed more time to review the large trove of evidence with which they'd been presented and cited scheduling challenges resulting from the other legal cases against Trump, including three additional criminal prosecutions for which he is awaiting trial.
In the fifth day of testimony in Hankison’s federal civil rights trial, former Lt. Dale Massey testified he couldn’t “fathom” an officer firing 10 shots into Taylor’s home from where
The trial of the man who allegedly attacked US politician Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer in the couple's California home was set to get under way Monday.But finding only her then-82-year-old husband at home, he engaged in what he told officers was a "pretty amicable" exchange, during which Pelosi managed to call for help from law enforcement.