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History was made in a New York courtroom yesterday when Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. After six weeks of trial and two days of deliberations, the jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts after prosecutors accused him of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.
What’s next?
Trump is expected to appeal. His arguments are likely to focus on porn star Stormy Daniels’ salacious testimony about their alleged sexual encounter, as well as the novel legal theory prosecutors used in the case, but he faces long odds, legal experts said. It is unlikely any appeal would be resolved before the Nov. 5 election.
Could Trump face prison at his sentencing, now set for July 11? Prison time is rare for people convicted in New York state of felony falsification of business records, the charge Trump faced. But legal experts said precedent can only be so helpful in guiding Justice Juan Merchan’s decision on the appropriate sentence in the first trial of its kind.
Although he faces criminal charges in three more cases, the hush money trial is likely to be the only one the 2024 presidential hopeful is likely to undergo before the election. The remaining legal cases against Trump – two related to efforts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election and a third focused on his stashing of secret government documents at his Florida social club – are all bogged down in legal squabbling that could prevent any of them from reaching a jury before voters cast their ballots.
Ultimately, Trump’s criminal conviction will not prevent him from pursuing his campaign to retake the White House, even if he were sentenced to prison before the Nov. 5 election. Here’s why.
For more of Reuters’ coverage of this unprecedented moment, click here.
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- A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a race and sex discrimination lawsuit filed by a first-year NYU law student challenging the selection process for the school’s flagship law review. The anonymous white male plaintiff did not have standing to sue and his complaint lacked facts to support his allegations, U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick said in his ruling.
- Former Locke Lord partner Mark Scott said prosecutors failed to prove he knew he was involved in a $400 million fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme, arguing to a federal appellate court that there was little evidence supporting his November 2019 conviction. In a brief filed with the 2nd Circuit, Scott argued that his conviction should be reversed or vacated in part because the government’s case relied on a witness who perjured himself.
- Class action lawyers for Blue Cross subscribers at the U.S. Supreme Court are defending their multimillion-dollar legal fee as part of a landmark $2.7 billion settlement resolving antitrust claims. The attorneys, including veterans Chuck Cooper and David Boies, urged the justices to affirm the settlement and the award of $667 million in fees and costs.
- U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts rejected a request by two Democratic senators for a meeting to urge him to take steps to ensure fellow Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from pending cases related to the 2020 election. “Separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence counsel against such appearances,” Roberts said in a letter to the senators.
- Dozens of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives urged the NLRB to swiftly investigate claims that Alphabet’s Google illegally laid off workers who unionized, saying the case could have a national impact. The 46 lawmakers in a letter to NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said Google is flouting a January board decision requiring it to bargain with YouTube Music content moderators provided by staffing firm Cognizant who voted last year to join the Alphabet Workers Union.
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That’s how many hours a week a 13-year-old girl was working in a factory in Alabama on an assembly line operating machines that formed sheet metal into auto body parts for Hyundai vehicles, according to the U.S. Labor Department in a new lawsuit in federal court. The department named three companies as defendants, Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama; SMART Alabama, an auto parts company; and Best Practice Service, a staffing firm. Reuters reported in 2022 that children, some as young as 12, worked for a Hyundai subsidiary and in other parts suppliers for the company in the Southern state. Hyundai said it “took immediate and extensive remedial measures” and presented information to the labor agency.
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For the second time this year, the 11th Circuit has accepted the SEC’s expansive view of who must register as securities dealers, handing a setback to industry groups that had urged the appeals court to clarify the distinction between dealers and investment funds that trade securities on their own behalf. Alison Frankel has the story.
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“What she cannot do… is use the power of the State to punish or suppress disfavored expression.”
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—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote the court’s unanimous opinion reviving the National Rifle Association’s lawsuit accusing a New York state official of coercing banks and insurers to avoid doing business with the gun rights group, a ruling that warned public officials against wielding their power to punish speech they dislike. The court threw out a 2nd Circuit ruling that dismissed the NRA’s 2018 lawsuit against Maria Vullo, a former superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services, claiming she unlawfully retaliated against it for its gun rights advocacy by targeting it with an “implicit censorship regime” following the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
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- U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree in Kansas will hear a bid by a group of Republican-led states to challenge a new Biden administration student loan repayment program that aims to provide debt relief to millions of people. The DOJ told the court in seeking dismissal that the states “clearly have policy and legal disagreements with the secretary’s approach to student loans, but their standing theories give them no basis to air those grievances in federal court.”
- U.S. District Judge Susan Ilston in San Francisco will weigh whether to preliminarily approve law firm Orrick’s deal to pay $8 million to settle class action claims from people who said their personal information was compromised in a breach of some of the firm’s client data. Hackers accessed the names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of more than 600,000 people that were contained in files held by Orrick, the plaintiffs said. Orrick detected the breach in March 2023.
- In Oakland, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers will resume hearing evidence as the court weighs a request from “Fortnite” maker Epic Games to hold Apple in contempt for allegedly failing to follow a court order requiring some changes to its lucrative App Store. Apple has denied violating the terms of the injunction, which Epic won as part of a lawsuit accusing the iPhone maker of unlawfully dominating app distribution and in-app payments.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Novartis asked a U.S. judge to block a Maryland law that would require drugmakers to offer discounts through third-party clinics that contract with hospitals and clinics serving low-income populations. Novartis in its lawsuit said the law, set to take effect July 1, was an attempt to regulate interstate commerce outside of Maryland’s borders and conflicted with federal law.
- Singapore-based Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon have reached a tentative settlement with the SEC, which sued them for allegedly misleading cryptocurrency investors before the 2022 collapse of the stablecoin TerraUSD. The deal, but not its terms, was disclosed on a court website. A jury found Kwon and Terraform Labs liable on civil fraud charges at trial in April.
- A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved WeWork’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan, allowing the shared office space provider to eliminate $4 billion in debt and hand the company’s equity over to a group of lenders and real estate technology company Yardi Systems. WeWork used its bankruptcy to negotiate a significant reduction in future rent costs from its landlords, ultimately reaching deals to save $8 billion.
- Leading U.S. alcohol distributors Southern Glazer’s and Republic National Distributing must face a lawsuit that accuses them of stifling competition involving a rival digital distribution platform. U.S. District Judge Nancy Maldonado in Chicago rejected requests from the country’s two largest alcohol distributors to dismiss the 2022 lawsuit from startup Provi. Both defendants have denied any wrongdoing.
- A New York state appeals court said Donald Trump can sue his niece Mary Trump for giving the New York Times information for its Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 probe into his finances and his alleged effort to avoid taxes. The Appellate Division in Manhattan found a “substantial” legal basis for Donald Trump to claim that his niece violated confidentiality provisions of a 2001 settlement over the estate of his father, Fred Trump Sr.
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