Trump challenges US Capitol riot suit
Donald Trump's lawyer has argued that the former president cannot be sued over his fiery speech preceding the deadly January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol because h...
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Donald Trump's lawyer has argued that the former president cannot be sued over his fiery speech preceding the deadly January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol because h...
Trump's lawyer argued in court on Monday that the former president cannot be sued over his fiery speech preceding the deadly Jan. 6 attack because he was acting within the scope of his official duties.
All it would have taken was a cheek swab to make this thing go away. Just sayin'.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Justice Department in a court filing on Tuesday declined to defend Republican congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL) in a lawsuit that alleges he conspired to instigate the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
July 28, 2021 at 2:51 PM Shares171 (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) While the media loves launching into a lot of shocked bellyaching over the size of Biglaw bills, it usually fails to grasp just how important it is for elite attorneys to take research down some fairly attenuated rabbit holes. It may add a few thousand to the bill to send a young associate off to look up the answer to “if we do X and they do Y and then wildly remote possibility Z shows up, what happens then?” but sometimes knowing the answer to that question can save the whole case.