Chris Geidner
A Democrat Is Proposing A Constitutional Amendment To Ban Presidents From Pardoning Themselves
No president has ever tried to pardon himself. What if Trump does? A Texas Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment that would make it certain that the issue never comes up again.
Chris Geidner
If Jeff Sessions Exits, Trump Could Choose An Acting Attorney General From Among Thousands Of People
Who would run the Justice Department if Trump fires the attorney general (or the attorney general quits)? Existing laws give the president a surprising number of different routes to fill a vacancy.
Chris Geidner
Donald Trump Jr. And Paul Manafort Will Testify In Public, But It's Not Clear When
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said on Friday that Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort will testify "openly," but it wasn't immediately clear when that would happen.
Zoe Tillman
Trump’s New Lead Lawyer Denies The Legal Team Is Looking Into Pardons
“There is nothing going on on pardons, research — nothing,” John Dowd told BuzzFeed News on Friday morning.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Is Angry At Everyone — But He's Really Upset His Pick Isn't Running The Russia Investigation
The bottom line in a wild New York Times interview is that Trump is upset that he didn’t pick the person making the calls on the investigation into his campaign.
Chris Geidner
Supreme Court Won't Stop Order That Exempts Grandparents From Trump's Travel Ban
The court did, however, put on hold a lower court's provision that expanded protections for would-be refugees affected by Trump's 120-day refugee ban.
Chris Geidner
Trump Election Commission: A White House Team Will Handle Voter Data
The director of White House Information Technology explained the new plan in a court filing for a privacy lawsuit that has been filed against the commission.
Chris Geidner
Trump Hired A Veteran White-Collar Defense Lawyer To Work In The White House
The president is adding Ty Cobb, a veteran white-collar defense lawyer in Washington, DC, to the White House counsel's office. His law firm, Hogan Lovells, announced the news internally on Friday.
Zoe Tillman
The Russian Lawyer And The Lobbyist From The Trump Jr. Meeting Had A Busy Month In America Last Summer
Natalia Veselnitskaya was not only at the Trump Tower meeting that's dominated the news this week. She spent the first half of June appearing at several key moments for Russian relations in the US — often with the lobbyist revealed on Friday also to have been at the meeting with Donald Trump Jr.
Chris Geidner
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court To Reverse New Limits On Travel Ban
A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday provided exemptions from the travel ban for grandparents and some other family members, as well as additional exemptions for some refugees. The Justice Department asked the justices on Friday night to remove those exemptions. The court called for a response from Hawaii by noon Tuesday.
Chris Geidner
While Donald Trump Jr. Was Emailing Last Year, Republicans Were Being Convinced Of The Trump "Pivot"
In the days that Donald Trump Jr. emailed about a meeting with a "Russian government lawyer," Republican leaders were working hard to convince each other that the rogue primary campaign was at its end.
Chris Geidner
Federal Judge Says Trump Travel Ban Can't Keep Out Grandparents And Other Family Members
The executive order cannot be used to "exclude grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins of persons in the United States," US District Judge Derrick Watson ruled. Watson also placed additional restrictions on which would-be refugees can be excluded under the order.
Chris Geidner
Here's The History Behind The Trumps, The Russian Pop Singer, And His Billionaire Father
Years of social media posts and business interests connect the Trump and the Agalarov families.
Ellie Hall
What The Donald Trump Jr. Emails Don’t Say
Was there any other communication in June 2016 besides the emails that Trump Jr. posted to Twitter on Tuesday? Lawyers for the parties involved did not answer questions on the subject.
Chris Geidner
This Music Publicist Says He Set Up The Donald Trump Jr. Meeting With A Russian Lawyer
"The A Team - headed to the White House!" Rob Goldstone wrote on the night of Trump's election victory. Over the weekend, Goldstone — who represents the musician son of a billionaire in Russia — said he helped arrange a June 2016 meeting between the president's son and a Russian lawyer who had been working to change US policy.
Chris Geidner
A Court Is Considering A Request To Halt The Trump Election Commission's Request For State Voter Lists
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly held arguments Friday as part of the Electronic Privacy Information Center's lawsuit against Trump's "election integrity" commission. The group argues the commission violated a federal privacy law in its voter list request.
Chris Geidner
Appeals Court Denies Hawaii's Request To "Clarify" Trump's Travel Ban Enforcement Rules
The state of Hawaii, which sued the Trump administration over the executive order, is trying — without success thus far — to get a federal court to weigh in on the administration's decisions on how to implement the travel ban after the June ruling from the Supreme Court allowing the ban to go into effect in part.
Chris Geidner
An Important LGBT Rights Case Could Be Heard By The Supreme Court In The Coming Year
Lambda Legal announced Thursday that it will be asking the justices to hear Jameka Evans' case, raising the question of whether sex discrimination bans include a ban on sexual orientation discrimination.
Chris Geidner
The Trump-'Morning Joe' Feud Has Twitter Talking, But Were Any Laws Broken?
Former prosecutors and a law professor say that there are a lot of things we don’t yet know about what actually happened between the TV hosts and Trump and that, based on what we do know now, it likely wouldn’t be criminal.
Chris Geidner
Texas Attorney General Threatens To Sue Trump If He Doesn't End DACA
In a letter to US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, joined by 10 other statewide officials, gives the administration until September to end the Obama-era protections for some undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.
Chris Geidner
