Trump lawyer reportedly ordered to testify in the Mar-a-Lago case

When Jan. 6 investigators sought answers from John Eastman, the Republican lawyer respondent with predictable pushback: He argued that he couldn’t testify because his work related to keeping Donald Trump in power after his 2020 defeat was protected by attorney-client privilege. It was at that point that the political world received a helpful legal primer […]

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Michael Cohen’s lawyer compares Trump to Clinton-Lewinsky case | Michael Cohen

A lawyer representing a key witness in the investigation into Donald Trump over hush money payments has drawn comparisons between the case and the sex scandal that embroiled Bill Clinton, as it became clear there would be no indictment in the Trump investigation until next week at the earliest . Lanny Davis, who represents Michael […]

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‘Can you spell lynching?’: lawyer’s shocking note in Texas execution case | Texas

In April 1999, John Balentine, a Black man on trial for murder in Amarillo, Texas, sat before an all-white jury as they deliberated whether he should live or die. Should he be given a life sentence, in which case he would probably end his days behind prison bars? Or should they send him to death […]

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