Jordan Rubin
Jack Smith is still grinding
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Deadline: Legal Newsletter. Jack Smith is still grinding in D.C., and Maine joins Colorado in disqualifying Donald Trump...
Maine secretary of state says Trump ineligible to appear on 2024...
The latest eligibility decision comes as the U.S. Supreme Court could decide the issue nationwide in the Colorado case...
The Colorado ruling disqualifying Trump is already having an impact
Colorado's decision disqualifying Trump from the primary pushed back Maine's decision on the subject. It can serve as a model for other states...
Trump’s Supreme Court brief on immunity asks: What’s the rush?
If the justices deny early review, the leading GOP presidential candidate may nonetheless be knocking at their door soon if he loses his immunity claim in the D.C. Circuit...
Will Justice Thomas recuse himself from Trump’s Supreme Court case?
With special counsel Jack Smith pressing the Supreme Court to quickly take up Trump’s immunity appeal, the question arises: Will Justice Clarence Thomas recuse...
Judge’s response to Giuliani: You only have yourself to blame
Rudy Giuliani has been racking up legal issues at an impressive clip...
Donald Trump re-gagged in New York
This week's Deadline: Legal Newsletter includes Donald Trump’s New York gag order, Justice Kagan's Supreme Court dissent and the latest from D.C. and Georgia...
Eastman says he wants a sooner plea deadline and to be...
MAGA lawyer John Eastman has proposed splitting the remaining defendants in Trump’s Georgia case into three groups, with the former president in his own trial...
Trump is free (for now) to rail against Judge Engoron’s law...
The limited restraint at Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York barred him from making statements about court staff after he targeted the judge’s law clerk...
Are Scavino’s alleged statements to Jenna Ellis admissible at trial?
Jenna Ellis gave explosive information to Georgia prosecutors: Trump wasn’t going to leave the White House. But can she give that same testimony at trial...
