Deadline: Legal Blog

The Democratic appointees said the Supreme Court should have taken the capital case from Texas to bolster important constitutional rights.

The former fixer’s testimony is filled with danger for both sides as the state’s case wraps up.

Also in this week's Deadline: Legal Newsletter: the former president's own words are used against him and the Supreme Court he helped appoint keeps grabbing power.

Deadline: White House legal reporter and former prosecutor Jordan Rubin answers your questions about the Supreme Court, Trump’s trials and other legal issues.

The GOP-appointed majority "sweeps far more broadly" than necessary in declining to grant minimal constitutional protections, Sotomayor wrote for the dissent.

Don’t overlook the witness who testified just before Stormy Daniels on Tuesday. She helped bring Trump’s own damning words to the jury.

A state appeals court agreed to consider whether Fani Willis and her office should be disqualified from trying Trump and his co-defendants.

The woman at the center of the so-called hush money case will take the stand for the prosecution against the former president, who risks jail if he violates his gag order again.

Amid a groundswell of ballot initiatives to improve abortion access at the state level, anti-abortion advocates — and their GOP allies in legislatures — want to prevent voters from weighing in at all.

Other defendants would have been jailed by now. Trump can’t plausibly argue, in the court of law or public opinion, that the proceedings have been unfair to him.

Prosecutors had sought fines for the latest alleged violations by the former president, telling the judge they weren’t seeking jail just yet.