The Georgia Court of Appeals will hear former President Trump’s case to have District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified on Dec. 5 — a month after the 2024 presidential election. The Georgia court will hear the appeal by Trump and his co-defendants to have embattled Willis disqualified from the case due to an alleged “improper” affair...
The United Nation’s top court has ruled Israel’s settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, and they must be removed immediately. “The State of Israel is under the obligation to bring an end to its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible,” ICJ President Nawaf Salam said when he delivered the...
In a surprising turn of events, charges against actor Alec Baldwin were dismissed with prejudice on Friday, July 12, 2024, with the trial ending before it even really began. Per the judge’s ruling, Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case cannot be filed again, a decision which brought the actor to tears as he sat in the courtroom....
Angelina Jolie wants ex-husband Brad Pitt to “end the fighting” over the former couple’s French winery. Jolie’s legal team is on the hunt for more evidence to prove Pitt wrong after he sued the actress in 2022. Pitt sued Jolie after the “Maleficent” star sold her stake in Miraval and requested the judge declare the...
Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a notice to appeal a Florida judge’s decision to toss his case against former President Donald Trump related to his handling of classified documents. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday dismissed Smith’s case, citing that Smith’s special counsel appointment by Attorney General Merrick Garland was unconstitutional. “Former President...
The jury in the federal corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and two of his business associates, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, found Menendez guilty on all charges after a grueling nine-week complex trial in Manhattan. Menendez pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he accepted an array of bribes in exchange for helping...
Hannah Gutierrez Reed filed an expedited motion Tuesday for a new trial, or to dismiss her case, following the shocking dismissal of Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter charge last week. “Following the Baldwin trial and the dismissal with prejudice, Ms. Gutierrez-Reed intends to file an expedited motion for new trial or for dismissal for discovery violations...
Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial in the fatal shooting of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins took a shocking turn Friday when Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case. Jurors were recessed for the weekend before a special hearing began after the lunch hour, when not only did special prosecutor Kari Morrissey voluntarily take the stand as...
A Florida judge dismissed the case against former President Trump for the handling of classified documents, and some legal experts are calling it a “strongly reasoned” opinion that eliminates the “greatest legal threat” to the presumptive 2024 GOP just ahead of the Republican National Convention. On Monday, Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a 93-page...
SANTE FE, N.M. — In a scene fit for a Hollywood legal thriller, the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin for the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins in 2021 disintegrated in a matter of hours Friday and featured the lead prosecutor taking the stand. Baldwin, 66, entered the courtroom Friday facing the prospect of up...
