While Donald Trump was back in a New York courtroom today (more on that below) the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a different case that could affect the prosecution of Trump for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Conservative justices signaled skepticism toward an obstruction charge brought by the DOJ against a Pennsylvania man in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. The legal issue in the case involves how two parts of the obstruction law fit together. The first provision prohibits obstructing an official proceeding by destroying “a record, document or other object.” The second part makes it a crime to “otherwise obstruct” an official proceeding. Read more about the oral arguments.
Donald Trump sits in the courtroom with his attorneys, April 16, 2024. Curtis Means/Pool via REUTERS
Jury selection continues today in Donald Trump’s criminal trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
“This case is really not about whether you like Donald Trump. This case is about the rule of law and whether Donald Trump broke it,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass told the 18 prospective jurors who remained of an initial pool of 96.
“It’s extraordinarily important to President Trump that we know that we’re going to get a fair shake,” Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche said to the same pool of potential jurors. Click here for live coverage of jury selection.
