By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, can sue the Trump Organization to cover millions of dollars in legal fees from defending against investigations into his work for the former U.S. president, a New York state appeals court ruled on Tuesday. Cohen, now a …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Barbara Jones, a retired U.S. federal judge who also served as a special master in a case involving Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was appointed on Monday by a New York judge as a watchdog of the former U.S. president’s company. New York state Attorney General Letitia …
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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday asked a U.S. appeals court to revive his lawsuit against Twitter Inc challenging his permanent suspension from the platform after his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Lawyers for Trump, a Republican, told the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court …
By Nate Raymond and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for a congressional panel to obtain phone records from Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, rejecting her request to block a subpoena issued in the investigation into the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack by former President Donald Trump’s supporters. …
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(Reuters) – Officials from U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration are finalizing a request this week for about $10 billion in public health funds by the end of the year, The Washington Post reported on Monday. This would be part of larger request in the lame-duck session of Congress that will include funding for Ukraine and …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A watchdog group on Monday asked the U.S. Federal Election Commission to probe a $20 million transfer between two groups tied to former President Donald Trump, alleging the money was illegally sponsoring Trump’s aim to return to the White House. Trump has repeatedly hinted that he plans to run for president again …
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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – Even before the contest in Georgia between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker headed for a Dec. 6 runoff, a staggering $262 million had already been spent on the race. Now, with control of the U.S. Senate possibly hinging on the match-up, political analysts expect the …
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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis arguably had the best night of anyone on Election Day, trouncing his Democratic opponent on his way to re-election and cementing himself as the Republican Party’s top rising star. What comes next is trickier. With Donald Trump expected to announce a 2024 presidential bid on Tuesday, …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – The outcome of state supreme court races in Tuesday’s midterm elections could have profound consequences for control of the U.S. Congress in the future, as well as abortion rights in several states. The races, typically a political afterthought, emerged as electoral battlegrounds this year, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court’s …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -A Democratic-led congressional committee and President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s bid to avoid complying with the panel’s request for his tax returns that the Republican former president calls politically motivated. The House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee and the Justice …
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