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Donald J. Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts—each count is a New York state charge for falsifying business records stemming from the so‑called "hush‑money" case—a verdict recorded by the Man...
Donald J. Trump was criminally convicted by a New York jury on May 30, 2024, on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments tied to the 2016 election, making him the...
No felony conviction of Donald J. Trump has been overturned or vacated on appeal as of the reporting in these sources; he remains convicted on 34 counts out of the Manhattan hush‑money trial, has been...
Only one former U.S. president has been criminally convicted in modern history: Donald J. Trump, whose 2024 conviction on business-records felonies was widely described as the first conviction of a fo...
There is no authoritative single count of how many times President Trump has “acted unlawfully” in his current term because unlawfulness is a legal determination made case-by-case by courts, and many ...
Yes — President Trump can and has been appealing his New York felony convictions, and his legal team can seek review by the U.S. Supreme Court; whether the justices will take the case and reverse the ...
An appeals court reversal of Donald Trump’s New York conviction would trigger a predictable mix of immediate legal maneuvers and longer political theater: the defense would press for dismissal or tran...
The federal criminal case charging Donald J. Trump for efforts to overturn the 2020 election through the January 6 events is not an active, pending prosecution in Washington, D.C.; the indictment that...
The Supreme Court’s July 1, 2024 decision created a two-tiered immunity rule that grants former presidents absolute immunity for acts within their “exclusive” constitutional sphere and at least presum...
was convicted by a jury on May 30, 2024, of 34 counts arising from the same scheme—each count was a first‑degree falsifying business records charge related to payments made to influence the —so the sh...
Four legal tracks can produce enforceable civil money judgments against a sitting or former president: private civil suits in federal or state court where immunity does not apply, criminal restitution...
The federal jury verdict and subsequent appellate rulings in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuits turned on the trial court’s admission of evidence about other alleged sexual assaults and contemporaneous statem...
Donald Trump’s legal playbook in response to allegations tied to his presidency combined procedural tactics to delay and shift venues, constitutional defenses (notably claims of presidential immunity ...
The short answer is: there is evidence that Donald Trump has been charged and in at least one case convicted for conduct related to his time as a candidate or private citizen, and many of his actions ...
A Senate acquittal does not automatically extinguish all legal accountability: the dominant view in recent official and academic commentary is that criminal prosecution, civil suits, and other remedie...
The constitutional and legal landscape leaves meaningful non‑criminal paths for holding a former president to account if prosecutors cannot bring or sustain criminal charges: civil litigation, impeach...
Donald J. Trump was convicted by a New York jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records connected to hush‑money payments, making him the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a fe...
The Department of Justice is the federal agency charged with investigating and prosecuting potential federal crimes, including those that may involve a president or former president, but its actions a...
Retired senior officers have publicly said that military personnel should refuse clearly unlawful orders: for example, retired Air Force General Michael Hayden told an HBO audience that “you are not r...