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

05/03/2025despair

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 Cohen, Trump’s former fixer, hypothesized about what might have happened if Clinton had handled his affair with Monica Lewinsky differently.

Clinton was impeached in his second term after lying about his relationship with Lewinsky while he was president. Davis, who served as a special adviser

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

13/08/2024despair

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 row to await execution?

Balentine had been convicted days earlier of murdering three white teenagers who had threatened to kill him because he was romantically engaged with one of the teenagers’ white sisters – an interracial liaison widely frowned upon in heavily segregated Amarillo. Now

Prince Harry words undermine phone hack case: lawyer

04/06/2023despair

LONDON –

An attorney for the publisher of The Sun tabloid used Prince Harry’s own words Thursday to argue that his phone hacking lawsuit should be thrown out.

Attorney Anthony Hudson said emails from the Duke of Sussex to the Royal Family’s chief spokesperson indicated he was well aware enough of the allegations against the publisher that he could have brought a lawsuit in a timely manner.

Harry first became aware that one of his voicemails had been intercepted in 2006 and knew he had a claim to bring in 2012, Hudson said.

But the prince only began pushing Buckingham

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

19/04/2023despair

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 about the limits of the legal protection: Communications between attorneys and clients are not protected if they’re discussing committing crimes. (Eastman ultimately took the Fifth.)

Today, the same issue is coming to the fore in a way the former president isn’t going to like —