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President Trump's lawyers raised presidential-immunity arguments, which were rejected by the appeals court
Donald Trump was convicted on 34 counts of first‑degree falsifying business records in New York and was later sentenced to an unconditional discharge on January 10, 2025; he has mounted multiple, over...
President Donald Trump has formally appealed his 34-count New York conviction by filing a notice of appeal in the state intermediate appellate court, while simultaneously pursuing a parallel strategy ...
Donald Trump’s May 2024 conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records remains under active appeal in New York’s state courts while a parallel federal removal effort — premised on presi...
for evidence and immunity disputes in ’s criminal cases are a February 2024 opinion rejecting sweeping and the ’s July 1, 2024 decision that recognized at least presumptive and in some core instances ...
mounted by ’s lawyers centers on several interlocking legal theories: that shields his conduct, that procedural or evidentiary errors at trial (including alleged juror misconduct and faulty jury instr...
Donald Trump was criminally charged in New York over how his organization recorded reimbursements tied to a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, was convicted by a Manhattan jury on 34 felony counts of...
The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States held that presidents enjoy a mix of absolute immunity for “core” constitutional powers and at least presumptive immunity for other “official” acts, while le...
A weight of federal and state indictments, a special counsel report, released court evidence and contemporaneous records show coordinated efforts by Donald Trump and allies after the 2020 election to ...
Legal teams challenging Donald Trump’s felony conviction have advanced several distinct grounds — chiefly presidential-immunity arguments, requests to transfer the case to federal court, claims that p...
Yes — individuals and entities can and do in both his private and official capacities, but success depends on legal doctrine (immunity and jurisdiction), timing, the nature of the alleged conduct, and...
’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...
The vacated the ’s immunity ruling and remanded v. to the district court with instructions to make factbound determinations about which of the indictment’s allegations—especially those involving attem...
The civil-immunity framework became the keystone precedent both sides invoked in v. : defenders argued Fitzgerald’s recognition of absolute immunity for official acts supported sweeping protection fro...
Three principal judicial tracks remain to overturn or blunt ’s hush‑money conviction: a state‑court appeal to the (and potentially New York’s highest court), a bid to transfer or remove the case into ...
did not simply reject or accept "’s final immunity claims" in an all-or-nothing way; in the Court issued a 6–3 opinion that carved out robust constitutional immunities for former presidents with respe...
held that a president enjoys absolute immunity for core official acts, presumptive immunity for acts within the “outer perimeter” of official responsibility, and no immunity for unofficial acts, creat...
A judicial finding that presidential immunity does not bar prosecution would reopen parts of the federal cases against Donald Trump that the Supreme Court either protected or left unresolved, allowing...
The principal routes left to undo or narrow the 34 felony convictions are a state‑court appeal to New York’s intermediate and highest appellate courts challenging trial rulings and the novel legal the...
If an intermediate appeal in Donald Trump’s New York felony case is denied, defense lawyers have a bundle of doctrinal and procedural options — continuing appeals within the state system, pushing nove...
New York law already treated falsifying business records as a misdemeanor but elevated it to a felony when done to conceal another crime; prosecutors charged Donald Trump under that felony provision a...