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2 verified reports published on April 25, 2024.
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The larger pattern is the same one that keeps biting Trump: he can delay, deny, and bluster, but he cannot stop the consequences from accumulating. April 25 did not produce a single knockout blow, but it did produce something almost as useful for the prosecution side — a reminder that the facts, the filings, and the tape keep showing up whether he wants them to or not.
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On April 25, 2024, the Supreme Court heard Donald Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution in the federal election-interference case. The justices did not issue a ruling that day, but several seemed doubtful about the broadest version of Trump’s theory even as they explored procedural questions that could affect the case’s pace.
Prosecutors on April 25 asked Judge Juan Merchan to hold Donald Trump in contempt again over alleged violations of the expanded gag order in the Manhattan hush-money case. The motion, filed after earlier contempt fights in the same trial, targeted statements prosecutors said Trump made on April 22, April 23 and April 25. Merchan ruled later, on May 6, and found only one of the alleged statements contemptuous.