The Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday abruptly canceled oral arguments on Donald Trump’s appeal of a state court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) to continue prosecuting the 2020 election interference case against the president-elect and several of his allies.
Manhattan prosecutors Tuesday said they will oppose a request by Donald Trump’s lawyers to dismiss his 34-count felony conviction but suggested they were open to postponing proceedings in the case until after the president-elect’s second term in the White House.
Legal regulators filed a 10-count ethics complaint Tuesday against a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who oversaw a problem-plagued review of the 2020 presidential election in this battleground state.
Texas lawmakers can’t force courts to delay an execution by issuing a legislative subpoena for a death row inmate’s testimony after the scheduled execution date, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled.
Twenty-five percent of all lawyers live in California and New York, states that include five of the top 10 metropolitan areas for attorney pay.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that he will urge the House Ethics Committee to suppress its report into attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz and block the Senate Judiciary Committee from viewing the investigation, an unusual intervention that could shape a divisive nomination fight.
Behind Nintendo Co.’s fierce protection of wide-ranging intellectual property is a legal team adept at weaponizing patents against potential rivals. Now those attorneys are setting their sights on a studio that’s risen to prominence with a game the industry has dubbed “Pokémon With Guns.”
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he planned to appoint three of the lawyers from his criminal trials to top Justice Department jobs, putting them in position to oversee the federal prosecutors and agents who brought two of the cases and to argue on behalf of his administration before the Supreme Court.
Republican senators signaled Thursday that they plan to closely scrutinize allegations of wrongdoing dogging Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department, former congressman Matt Gaetz, setting up a potential showdown between the president-elect and the GOP-controlled Senate.
Updated: A Kansas attorney has received a six-month stayed suspension for making “inflammatory attacks” on an opposing counsel and including “irrelevant information” in a court filing intended to diminish his client’s estranged wife.