Senate Rejects Bork, 58-42 : Six Republicans Bolt Party Ranks to Oppose Judge
WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected President Reagan’s nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote today, ending a long and contentious…
Trump fined for gag order violation, judge warns of possible jail time
NEW YORK — The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial fined him $1,000 on Monday for violating his gag order once again and sternly…
Trump hush-money trial: Judge weighs additional gag order violations
The judge in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial will hear arguments to determine whether the former president further violated a gag order in…
Donald Trump was held in contempt. Could he go to jail?
Judge Juan M. Merchan has, in his soft-spoken but hard-nosed way, told Donald Trump something no other court has over the course of his many…
Judge orders Trump to pay $9,000 for violating gag order
NEW YORK — Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making…
W. Virginia and North Carolina’s transgender care policies discriminate, judges rule
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain healthcare for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled…
Calmes: Who’s on trial in Manhattan, an ex-president or a mob boss?
Donald Trump has fussed about many things during his criminal trial in Manhattan: the judge, prosecutors, their relatives, witnesses, jurors and of course the media,…
Inside the head-spinning week of Trump’s legal drama
NEW YORK — Even by Donald Trump’s standards, it was a dizzying week. The first criminal prosecution of a former president began in earnest with opening…
Will Supreme Court make Trump immune from Jan. 6 prosecution?
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear former President Trump’s claim that he is entirely immune from prosecution for all of his “official acts”…
Judge hears request to hold Trump in contempt for social media posts
NEW YORK — Prosecutors in the historic hush money trial of Donald Trump urged a judge Tuesday to fine him and hold him in contempt over…
Judge hears prosecution claims Donald Trump violated gag order in hush-money trial
1 of 3 | Prosecutors are set Tuesday to try to convince the judge in Donald Trump's falsification of business records trial in New York…
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes winners for 2024 announced at USC
The spotlight shined on great literature Friday night at the 44th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony at USC’s Bovard Auditorium, where 13 winners took…
Why was Trevor Bauer listed as a victim in a fraud case?
Trevor Bauer stands on the mound during a game between the Dodgers and Colorado Rockies in April 2021. (Harry How / Getty Images) Bauer has…
N.Y. AG asks judge to void Trump’s $175M bond in civil fraud case
New York Attorney General Letitia James's office on Friday argued the California-based insurance brokerage that posted former President Donald Trumps $175 million bond could not…
Jury selection could be nearing close in Trump’s hush money trial
NEW YORK — Lawyers worked Friday to round out the panel of 12 jurors and six alternates who will hear Donald Trump’s hush money trial, as…
Judge rules against getting Bob Baffert horse into Kentucky Derby
The attempt to allow Bob Baffert to run a horse in this year’s Kentucky Derby was denied in a ruling by Jefferson County, Ky. judge…
First 7 jurors chosen for Trump hush money criminal trial in New York
NEW YORK — The first seven jurors for Donald Trump’s hush money trial were chosen Tuesday after lawyers grilled members of the jury pool about their…
Trump’s hush money trial is about more than Stormy Daniels and sex
The adult film star. The betraying bagman. The brash billionaire. The plot reads like a “Sopranos” episode, a shadowy narrative of a nation’s sins and…
Trump’s New York hush money trial faces further political antics
After a pretrial period replete with juvenile tantrums, nonstarter attempts to delay the proceedings, and savage attacks on prosecutors, the presiding judge and New Yorkers…
Trump’s history-making hush-money trial begins with jury selection
NEW YORK — Donald Trump arrived Monday at a New York court for the start of jury selection in his hush-money trial, marking a singular moment…