A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on April 9, 2024.
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The pattern is getting hard to miss. Trump keeps trying to lawyer, post, and message his way out of trouble, and the courts and his own coalition keep answering with different versions of no.
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Special counsel Jack Smith filed a Supreme Court brief on April 8, 2024, arguing Donald Trump’s immunity claim should fail in the federal election-interference case set for argument later this month.
A New York appeals judge rejected Trump’s last-minute bid to delay the April 15 hush-money trial, knocking down another attempt to buy time as the case heads toward jury selection.
Donald Trump said on April 8, 2024, that abortion policy should be left to the states, and some anti-abortion allies quickly objected to the move.