Former President Donald Trump’s attorney said Thursday that the former president will attempt to shift his New York City criminal case to a federal court to avoid a state court trial. The lawyer, Todd Blanche, disclosed his team’s plans during an unrelated hearing on the criminal case on Thursday, according to multiple reports.  If successful,…

NEW YORK—Former President Donald Trump should be forbidden from sharing evidence produced during his criminal case with the media or the public, prosecutors said in a filing this week. Prosecutors with the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on April 24 asked New York Justice Juan Merchan to enter a protective order that would limit…

The legal battle between Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and the Manhattan District Attorney has just officially ended: the judge in the case has ruled in favor of Jordan, and the Manhattan DA’s appeal to that ruling was just withdrawn. This comes shortly after former President Donald Trump was charged by the Manhattan DA with 34…

A former Federal Elections Commission official said that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has no authority to “enforce federal campaign finance” laws against former President Donald Trump. “It’s an extremely dubious prosecution, and I say that as a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission,” former FEC Commissioner Hans von Spakovsky, a Trump ally, told…

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has dropped his effort to quash a congressional subpoena to a former prosecutor who worked in his office, a congressional aid told The Epoch Times in a statement on Friday. “This evening, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office withdrew its appeal in Bragg v. Jordan. Mr. Pomerantz’s deposition will go forward…

By publishing a book about the investigation of former President Donald Trump, an ex-prosecutor created a predicament for himself—and for the man pressing the historic criminal case against Trump, District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg. A New York federal judge repeatedly cites the book written by Mark Pomerantz, who formerly worked on a probe into Trump’s…

By publishing a book about the investigation of former President Donald Trump, an ex-prosecutor created a predicament for himself—and for the man pressing the historic criminal case against Trump, District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg. A New York federal judge repeatedly cites the book written by Mark Pomerantz, who formerly worked on a probe into Trump’s…

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals this morning issued a temporary administrative hold on the return date of the House Judiciary Committee’s congressional subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office. Pomerantz investigated former President Donald Trump’s finances before leaving Bragg’s office in February 2022 in protest of Bragg’s…

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals this morning issued a temporary administrative hold on the return date of the House Judiciary Committee’s congressional subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office. Pomerantz investigated former President Donald Trump’s finances before leaving Bragg’s office in February 2022 in protest of Bragg’s…

Allegations of special treatment. An IRS agent says the Hunter Biden investigation is being mishandled. He wants whistleblower status to tell Congress all about it. A court weighs in on the dispute between Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan. It involves a subpoena for a former prosecutor. A development in the debt limit deadlock. House speaker Kevin…