Giuliani May Have Exposed Trump to New Legal and Political Perils
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Trump’s new legal team made a chaotic debut as Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was tapped recently to be one of the president’s lawyers, potentially exposed his client to legal and political danger by publicly revealing the existence of secret payments to Michael D. Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer. After he moved into the White House, the president began paying Mr. Cohen $35,000 a month, Mr. Giuliani said, in part as reimbursement for a $130,000 payment that Mr. Cohen made to a pornographic film actress to keep he…
The Legal Issues Raised by the Stormy Daniels Payment, Explained
[ad_1] In the end, a jury acquitted Mr. Edwards of one charge while deadlocking on the other five, and prosecutors opted not to seek a new trial. Richard L. Hasen , a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, said that after the Edwards mistrial, federal prosecutors will be reluctant to go forward with similar cases unless they have “documentary proof, a smoking gun, that a payment was in fact election-related.” What is the argument that the payment was not campaign-related? In an interview on Thursday on the Fox News p…
In first TV appearance as Trump’s new lawyer, Giuliani makes serious legal error – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] On Wednesday night, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani sat for an interview with Sean Hannity in his first major TV appearance as President Trump’s lawyer. It did not go well. Giuliani offered a new — and contradictory — explanation for why Trump fired Comey. This is problematic when the goal of Trump’s lawyers is to provide Mueller with a consistent, and legal, explanation for the firing. Early in the interview, Giuliani said that Trump fired James Comey as FBI director because “ Comey would not — among other things — say that …
California leads legal challenge to Scott Pruitt’s plan to weaken vehicle emissions standards – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] California officials have repeatedly vowed not to back down to attempts by the Trump administration to weaken the state’s environmental regulations, especially the progress it has made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The state kept its word on Tuesday when California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said he is joining more than a dozen other states in filing a lawsuit challenging an EPA determination , published on April 13, that the fuel efficiency requirements for cars and light trucks are too stringent and must be revise…
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