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Prosecutors: Trump Committed 'Crimes to Try to Stay in Office'

Filing provides rationale for prosecuting despite Supreme Court's immunity ruling

(Newser) - A federal judge unsealed a filing by special counsel Jack Smith and his staff on Wednesday that includes evidence supporting the most sweeping account yet of their case against Donald Trump's "increasingly desperate" efforts to stay in office despite losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. US...

Judge in Trump Case Calls Election Schedule Irrelevant

Tanya Chutkan sets pretrial deadlines but not a trial date

(Newser) - Judge Tanya Chutkan convened both sides in Donald Trump's election interference prosecution on Thursday, setting a pretrial schedule to move the case along while saying her timeline won't be affected by the defendant's presidential campaign. "This court is not concerned with the electoral schedule," she...

Judge Has Trump Election Case Back From Supreme Court

Chutkan has to apply immunity ruling to prosecution's case

(Newser) - The federal election interference case against Donald Trump is back with the trial judge after sitting at the Supreme Court for months. The three-judge appeals court panel returned the prosecution on Friday to US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, CBS News reports, who can now set a schedule and announce next...

Trump Loses a Round in Fight Over Gag Order

He's expected to go to Supreme Court to challenge federal judge's restrictions

(Newser) - Washington's federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump's request to reconsider a gag order restricting the former president's speech in the case charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 election. Lawyers for the former president had asked the full US Court of Appeals for the...

Judge Freezes Jan. 6 Trial While Trump Appeals

Chutkan says process could delay March start date

(Newser) - Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday put a hold on Donald Trump's election interference case in her courtroom while the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decides whether he has legal immunity. Her decision temporarily halts activity in the Trump case, the Hill reports, including all deadlines his team was facing....

Judges Mostly Keep Gag Order on Trump but Add Limitation
Judges Back Trump Gag Order
Dec 8, 2023 3:10 PM CST

Judges Back Trump Gag Order

Panel alters Chutkan's decision to allow attacks on Jack Smith

(Newser) - Donald Trump's appeal of a gag order in his federal election interference trial mostly was rejected Friday, though an appeals court's tweak will allow the former president to carry on with his attacks against special counsel Jack Smith. The 68-page ruling by a three-judge panel of the DC...

Judge Freezes Gag Order on Trump, for Now
Trump's 'Intolerable'
Gag Order Is Reinstated
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Oct 30, 2023 12:30 AM CDT

Trump's 'Intolerable' Gag Order Is Reinstated

Judge Tanya Chutkan un-freezes order she imposed in his election interference case

(Newser) - US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Sunday reinstated a gag order against former President Trump, denying his request to suspend the order and allow him to speak freely while his appeal plays out. The decision came two days after she temporarily froze the gag order while she considered Trump's...

Judge Imposes Narrow Gag Order on Trump
Trump Appeals Gag Order
Judge Imposed on Him
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Oct 18, 2023 12:00 AM CDT

Trump Appeals Gag Order Judge Imposed on Him

He is not allowed to publicly attack prosecutors, witnesses, or the judge's staff

(Newser) - Immediately after Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed a partial gag order on Donald Trump Monday, the former president called the move "unconstitutional." Now he's going further: On Tuseday, his attorneys filed a formal notice of appeal against the order, NBC News reports. They said imposing the gag order...

Judge Laughs Out Loud Amid Trump Gag Order Hearing

Judge Chutkan disagrees with Trump attorney who says restrictions now in place are working

(Newser) - A judge on Monday was trying to figure out whether to impose a stricter gag order on Donald Trump in regard to his federal election interference case , and an early moment stood out. Trump attorney John Lauro told US District Judge Tanya Chutkan that no further restrictions were necessary because...

Judge Denies Trump, Won't Recuse Herself

Tanya Chutkan calls defendant's portrayal of past comments from the bench 'cynical and suspicious'

(Newser) - US District Judge Tanya Chutkan turned down former President Trump's request that she recuse herself from presiding over the federal government's election obstruction prosecution of the former president in Washington, making it clear that she disagreed with his legal team's reasoning. The Trump lawyers' interpretation of two...

Trump Asks for a New Judge
Trump Wants Judge's Recusal
Sep 11, 2023 7:15 PM CDT

Trump Wants Judge's Recusal

Filing objects to comments made by Tanya Chutkan in other cases

(Newser) - Donald Trump's lawyers went to court Monday with a request of US District Judge Tanya Chutkan: Remove yourself from the former president's election subversion trial. The filing argues that comments Chutkan has made about rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, CNN reports, could suggest that...

Jack Smith Slams Trump's 'Daily Extrajudicial Statements'

Jack Smith accuses ex-president of remarks that could taint jury pool in election interference case

(Newser) - A mostly sealed court battle between Team Trump and special counsel Jack Smith, who's currently prosecuting two criminal cases against the former president, has spurred a new court filing in which Smith says Trump's remarks online could taint the jury pool in his election interference indictment. As CNN...

Texas Woman Charged With Threatening Trump Judge

'If Trump doesn't get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you,' she allegedly told Chutkan

(Newser) - A Texas woman left a voicemail message threatening to kill the judge overseeing former President Trump's federal election interference case, prosecutors say. Abigail Jo Shry, 43, allegedly called the chambers of US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on August 5, two days after the former president was arraigned in the...

Liberals, Your 'Hero Worship' of Judges, Others May Backfire

At Politico, Michael Schaffer argues progressives are hurting their own cause in regard to Trump

(Newser) - Welcome to the state of politics in 2023: You can now buy T-shirts and coffee mugs celebrating the judge in Donald Trump's federal election-interference case. And as Michael Schaffer points out in an opinion piece at Politico Magazine , Judge Tanya Chutkan is far from the only Trump-related public figure...

Trump Tells Witness He Shouldn't Testify

He also slams the judge in his federal election interference case days after her warning

(Newser) - Donald Trump does not appear to be too worried about a federal judge's warning to rein in his public comments. In fact, the former president went after that same judge, Tanya Chutkan, in a new Truth Social post , reports Politico . Trump called her "very biased & unfair" (in...

Judge: Trump Has Limits on Free Speech as a Defendant

But Tanya Chutkan also rejects the government's request for a blanket restrictive order

(Newser) - In a Friday hearing to determine just how much Donald Trump can talk publicly about his legal troubles, neither side got everything it wanted. But the judge in Trump's election interference case made clear that the former president will have to be abide by restrictions, even if he is...

Trump Pushes to Have Judge Recuse Herself

Former president says he can't get a fair trial with Tanya Chutkan

(Newser) - It's not clear whether his legal team will follow up, but Donald Trump himself is pushing for the judge in his election interference case to recuse herself. In a series of posts on Truth Social over the weekend and into Monday, the former president maintained that US District Court...

This Is the Judge in Trump's Jan. 6 Trial
This Is the Judge in
Trump's Jan. 6 Trial
the rundown
Aug 2, 2023 1:10 AM CDT

This Is the Judge in Trump's Jan. 6 Trial

Meet Tanya Chutkan

(Newser) - The judges in the various cases against former President Trump are, not surprisingly, the subject of much interest (and sometimes threats or scrutiny ). With Trump's third indictment comes a third judge: meet Tanya S. Chutkan, who has been assigned to oversee the case involving Trump's alleged attempts...

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