Most lawyers are intent on winning every argument. But in his defense of President Donald Trump, friends and former colleagues say, William Consovoy is prepared to lose the first round – and even the second. For the unconventional lawyer with ...

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The plot hatched by two college students was simple, and if executed, would achieve where Congress has failed to: obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Trump’s personal finances have been sought by lawmakers and governors alike – documents some Democrats ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday granted full pardons to five people and commuted the prison sentences of another two, bringing to 19 the total number of people to whom he has granted executive clemency since taking office. In ...

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A federal judge put on hold President Donald Trump’s request for an emergency order barring House Democrats from getting his New York state tax records and gave the parties 24 hours to defuse the situation. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sued House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., and New York State officials Tuesday to block any release of his state tax returns to House Democrats under a state law passed this ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Court records released Thursday show that President Donald Trump took part in a flurry of phone calls in the weeks before the 2016 election as his close aides and allies scrambled to pay porn star Stormy ...

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A federal appeals court Friday challenged President Donald Trump’s attempt to block Congress from demanding eight years of records from his accounting firm, warning of the implications if lawmakers could not investigate potential misconduct in a president’s private business dealings ...

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WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Wednesday sided with President Donald Trump, dismissing a lawsuit claiming the president is illegally profiting from foreign and state government visitors at his luxury hotel in downtown Washington. The unanimous ruling from the U.S. ...

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President Donald Trump cannot block his critics from the Twitter feed he regularly uses to communicate with the public, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, in a case with implications for how elected officials nationwide interact with constituents on social ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge is poised to hear oral arguments Wednesday over President Donald Trump’s effort to block congressional subpoenas seeking financial records from two banks. The hearing occurs after congressional Democrats sought the information from Deutsche Bank ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday lost an early round of his court fight with Democrats when a federal judge ruled that the president’s accounting firm must turn over his financial records to Congress as lawmakers seek to assert ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and his allies are working to block more than 20 separate investigations by Democrats into his actions as president, his personal finances and his administration’s policies, according to a Washington Post analysis, amounting to what ...

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