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“Pursuing an approach based upon state tax violations is wise and well grounded.” Last month, former President Donald Trump was arraigned in New York on an indictment for 34 felony false books and records charges. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s suggestion at the time that tax violations may serve as a felony ‘bump up” came […]
y “Former President Donald J. Trump seeks what in Amici’s experience is extraordinary and unwarranted relief from this Court.” A bipartisan group of eight former federal and Georgia state prosecutors filed an amicus brief in the Superior Court of Fulton County Georgia on May 19 opposing former President Donald Trump’s motion to quash the Special Purpose Grand […]
Jordan’s incursion into the functioning of the Manhattan DA’s office is “egregious and unconstitutional overreach.” Twenty-one individuals, including four Republican former Members of Congress; Cyrus Vance Jr., the former Manhattan District Attorney; and former prosecutors, government attorneys, and other legal experts today filed an amicus brief supporting Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Jr.’s motion for injunctive relief to […]
Last night, in a unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, ruled against former President Donald Trump and halted the special master’s review of the documents seized from Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago. “In considering these arguments,” the Appeals Court panel wrote, “we are faced with a choice: […]
A group of former federal prosecutors and state and federal government officials who served in Republican Administrations, including former top Justice Department officials who served as Assistant, Deputy, and Acting Attorneys General, and U.S. Attorneys, filed amicus briefs in the three stages of the Mar-a-Lago documents case, at the district court and 11th Circuit Court […]
Democracy 21 joined with a diverse group of democracy reform, public policy, advocacy, and faith-based organizations in filing an amicus brief in the case Moore v. Harper, which will be heard by the Supreme Court on December 7. The amicus brief was led by the Campaign Legal Center. Other organizations on the brief, in addition […]
The District Court erred and “abandoned the fundamental principle that no one is above the law.” Last month’s court order by federal District Judge Aileen Cannon authorizing a special master in the Mar-a-Lago documents case “repeatedly granted the plaintiff in this case, former President Donald J. Trump, procedural rights and protections that are not afforded […]
The District Court in Florida erred in its decision granting a special master in the Mar-a-Lago documents case and the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit should allow the Government full access to the classified documents retrieved from Mar-a-Lago for its criminal investigation, according to an amicus brief filed last night supporting the Government’s emergency motion. Further, […]
Regardless of one’s political views, it is clear that there is no legal support for former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to oversee a review of the evidence seized by the Justice Department in its court-appointed search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, according to an amicus brief filed on Tuesday in the U.S. […]
Rep. Sarbanes & Democracy 21 File Brief Urging Supreme Court to Follow Precedent on Upholding Disclosure Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) and Democracy 21 last week filed a brief with the Supreme Court as amicus curiae in the case Americans for Prosperity v. Becerra. The case raises issues about the scope of a state law donor […]
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