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The @NewYorkStateAG files an appellate brief seeking to affirm the order sending Trump and two of his adult children to depositions.

It opens by noting the investigation has “uncovered significant evidence” of misleading asset valuations for “more than a decade.”
NYAG’s office has interviewed more than 40 people since @MichaelCohen212’s congressional testimony sparked the investigation in 2019, she says.
Her office has collected “hundreds of thousands” of Trump Organization documents—and mind the footnote there.

She says that’s in spite of “serious lapses” in the company’s document preservation and production since it’s been under judicial supervision.
NYAG argues that the course of the investigation shows it wasn’t a “bad faith” effort to lend backdoor support to the parallel criminal probe it is now assisting.

As in other investigations, the organization’s senior principals are being interviewed “towards the end.”
Defending her refrain “no one is above the law” against allegations of bias, NYAG notes that’s not a polemical sentiment.

Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch said that in Trump v. Vance, she notes.

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Jul 11
Just in:

Trump's lawyers filed a motion to vacate his 34 felony convictions and dismiss his New York indictment.

In the wake of SCOTUS's immunity ruling, they argue that certain testimony and evidence shouldn't have been introduced at trial, like the categories shown here. Image
DA Bragg's deadline to respond to Trump's arguments is July 24.
A few thoughts on this:

Trump's lawyers are not just challenging his convictions, based on the alleged use of "official-acts evidence."

Since prosecutors brought some of this evidence to the grand jury, they want his indictment thrown out too.
Read 4 tweets
Jul 2
Trump's sentencing in New York has been postponed in the wake of the SCOTUS immunity decision.

Justice Merchan has rescheduled it for Sept. 18.

Doc nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre…
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Explainer

Trump's lawyers agree that he isn't immune from prosecution in his N.Y. case, but they argued before trial that prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to use evidence tied to his official acts.

In April, Merchan rejected that motion as "untimely." nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre…
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On appeal, Trump's lawyers must argue:

* Merchan had it wrong that Trump brought his motion too late.

* That Trump's tweets and other records from the time of his presidency shown to the jury were "official acts."

* Prosecutors wrongly used that evidence to convict him. Image
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Jun 23
Just in

On Friday, Trump's lawyer argued that ex-AG Bill Barr only appointed Senate-confirmed US Attorneys as special counsel.

Jack Smith just contradicted that in a supplemental briefing showing three of Barr's special counsel picks from 1991 and 1992. Image
In the same briefing, Smith provided a list of statutes that appear to use "officials" to include inferior officers who don't require the advice and consent of the Senate.

It's quite long, and it rebuts Team Trump's claim that "officials" means something else.
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Judge Cannon invited prosecutors to file this brief backing up their arguments defending the special counsel's constitutional authority at the end of Friday's proceedings.

You can read it in full here.

documentcloud.org/documents/2477…
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May 30
Justice Merchan:

"We, the jury, have a verdict."
The judge announced he was going to excuse the jury before he received and read that jury note.
Alina Habba enters the courtroom and sits in the front row.
Read 4 tweets
May 29
Good morning from New York.

After a Manhattan judge delivers his instructions, a jury of Trump's peers will begin a historic process: deliberations to determine whether to convict a former U.S. president of felonies.

As always, I will be reporting live from the courtroom. 🧵
Trump has entered the courtroom, followed by his entourage.

The daily photography session has begun.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who has appeared only occasionally, is not in the courtroom this morning.
"All rise."

The jury is entering, and some appear more dressed up than usual — ready to work.

Justice Merchan tells them that he will now instruct them on the law.
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May 28
Good afternoon from New York.

Before lunch, Justice Merchan dressed down Trump's lawyer for his "outrageous" comment about prosecutors trying to put his client in prison.

He'll instruct the jury that potential punishment should factor into decision.

Separate thread. 🧵
Before the prosecution's summation begins, Assistant DA Susan Hoffinger note there's another reason that Blanche also should have been on notice earlier.

The judge precluded the defense from discussing potential punishment in a pre-trial ruling. nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/pre…
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Blanche has no objection to the curative instruction that prosecutors drafted.

I'm connecting the two threads, for defense and prosecution summations, here.
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