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There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that “’s legal team resigned before on Jan. 10, 2026”; the record instead shows contentious courtroom exchanges with Chutkan and separate personn...
Donald Trump has faced four high‑profile criminal prosecutions since 2023: two federal cases (one over classified White House documents alleging 40 counts of willful retention and obstruction, one ove...
entered 2026 with the major criminal cases that once shadowed his public life in three distinct outcomes: a criminal conviction stemming from the “hush‑money” case that reached a guilty verdict in 202...
, a Trump-aligned prosecutor who had served in a U.S. Attorney role, left after a federal judge sharply criticized her claim to the title — a departure that has been reported as part of a broader patt...
Donald Trump faced four major criminal prosecutions across 2023–2025: two federal cases (classified-documents and the Jan. 6 election-interference case) and two state cases (New York business-records ...
No conviction of Donald J. Trump documented in the provided materials was overturned on appeal through the dates in those sources; several cases were dismissed without prejudice or are under appeal, a...
Three state and federal judges played central roles in Donald Trump’s criminal cases referenced in the provided sources: Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan presided over the New York hush-mo...
Special Counsel Jack Smith moved to dismiss federal felony charges related to the 2020 election against Donald Trump, and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan formally entered dismissal after the Justice...
Donald J. Trump faced four major criminal prosecutions that produced a mix of results: a New York state conviction in the hush‑money case that culminated in an unconditional discharge sentence, two fe...
The Supreme Court’s July 1, 2024 immunity decision forced Special Counsel Jack Smith’s D.C. January 6 prosecution to shift from a straight-to-trial posture into a drawn-out, litigation-first strategy ...
The core claim is that multiple courts heard distinct criminal and civil matters involving Donald Trump during 2024, including the . Reporting across the supplied analyses agrees on four principal leg...
As of the sources provided (published between January and June 2025), two principal criminal matters involving Donald Trump were identified as having active appellate activity: an Eleventh Circuit cri...
The two federal courts that have been at the center of ’s criminal indictments are , where ’s election‑related case was assigned to , and , where presided over the classified‑documents indictment; as ...
, the most concrete criminal adjudication tied to was his May 30, 2024 conviction in on 34 counts of first‑degree falsifying business records; that verdict produced appeals and post‑verdict litigation...
’s lawyers urged the courts to recognize for presidential conduct—arguing absolute protection for acts within the “outer perimeter” of official responsibilities and pressing that , not criminal courts...
’s official chambers instructions require parties to email proposed scheduling or pretrial orders in Microsoft Word to chutkan_chambers@dcd.uscourts.gov at the same time the order is filed on the dock...
did not reject ’s immunity claims in full; instead the Court in a 6–3 decision recognized broad immunity for official presidential acts, overturned a lower-court ruling that had denied immunity, and s...
Federal courts have responded to multiple instances where the Trump administration attempted to cancel or condition federal grants by ordering a range of specific remedies: vacatur of termination noti...
Courts have issued a mix of rulings on obstruction claims tied to Donald Trump: the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. United States limited prosecutors’ reach by finding certain alleged acts protected by...
The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States established a three‑tiered immunity framework — absolute for core constitutional acts, presumptive for other official acts within the “outer perimeter,” and...