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Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Thursday took to the Senate floor to condemn former President Donald Trump’s claims for total immunity from criminal prosecution, an unprecedented legal argument he said is “impossible to ignore and must cause alarm.”
The small courtroom was already packed when former President Donald J. Trump walked slowly inside.
The latest news on Trump's immunity claim:A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear arguments today over former President Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution connected to his effort to overturn the 2020 election. Trump, who has said he intends to attend today's arguments, faces charges in a Washington, D.C., federal court that were filed by special counsel Jack Smith. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the four charges: conspiracy to defraud the U.S.; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction; and conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted.Trump contends that his efforts in 2020 were within his official presidential duties and therefore protected by presidential immunity. The judges are all women: Judge Karen Henderson, who was appointed in 1990 by then-President George H.W. Bush, and Judges Michelle Childs and Florence Pan, both appointed by President Joe Biden. Dean John Sauer, a former Missouri solicitor general and clerk for conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, will argue on behalf of Trump. James Pearce, a career lawyer in the Justice Department, will represent the special counsel.
The former member of the right-wing extremist group, the Proud Boys, who went missing just before he was set to be sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison.
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 500 gun purchases have been blocked since a new gun law requiring stricter background checks for young people went into effect in 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday, the day after a school shooting in Iowa left a sixth-grader dead.
A Florida man was arrested Wednesday in connection with threats to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and his children.
