Scott Mescudi, a.k.a. Kid Cudi, takes the stand in the case against Sean Combs.

He's wearing a leather jacket on this rainy Thursday, and his testimony has just begun. Mescudi says that Combs broke into his house, spooking his dog so much that he was "very jittery, kind of like on edge all the time."

When Combs tried to contact him later, he said: "I told him, 'No, you broke into my house. You messed with my dog. I don’t want to talk to you.'"

NEWS:

Casandra "Cassie" Ventura has taken the stand in the racketeering trial of Sean Combs.

The prosecution's preview of her testimony, @AllRiseNews allrisenews.com/p/sean-combs-r… Prosecutors immediately show her a still frame of the surveillance video from the hotel.

Q: Who introduced you to the term "freak off"?
A: Sean did.

Happening soon:

Trump's tariffs face their first legal test before the Court of International Trade — and the public can connect remotely.

Background @AllRiseNews allrisenews.com/p/mothers-day-… Find the link to the court's YouTube page in the story at the top of the thread.

As the afternoon session begins, witness testimony in the Sean Combs trial begins with Israel Flores, an LAPD officer who was a guard with Securitas in 2016.

On March 5, 2016, Flores worked at the InterContinental Hotel when there was an "incident" on the 6th floor. Flores describes going up the elevator to the 6th floor and seeing Combs in "a towel and some colored socks" and Cassie "in the corner, like covering her face."

Q: "How did you recognize Mr. Combs?"
A: "He's like a rapper, producer."

Good morning from New York.

P. Diddy's long anticipated sex trafficking trial is about to begin, and I'm here live in the courthouse.

Find else what else is on the docket this week, @AllRiseNews allrisenews.com/p/mothers-day-… "All rise!"

Assistant U.S. Maurene Comey for the government.

Marc Agnifilo for Diddy.

Peremptory strikes of jurors before opening statements.

HAPPENING SOON:

Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk has a bail hearing coming up in roughly 20 minutes, on the heels of her Second Circuit victory.

I'll be covering it in real time for @AllRiseNews. Background allrisenews.com/p/boasberg-hab… Note:

The court provided remote access to the press and public by Zoom.

Information is at the top of the docket. courtlistener.com/docket/6984553…

"ALL RISE!"

Court is now in session. Chief Judge James Boasberg is presiding.

The hearing is taking place in person, and I am covering it virtually, with periodic live updates and coverage on @AllRiseNews.

https://twitter.com/allrisenews/status/1920195800807678080

The ACLU's Lee Gelernt registers his appearance for the plaintiffs.

For the DOJ: Abhishek Kambli, Drew Ensign, and Tiberius Davis.

Sometimes, judges craft their rulings to capture a historical moment.

That's what happened after a federal judge compared Trump's targeting of students to the Red Scare.

Click the 🔗, @AllRiseNews
Read the 🧵 allrisenews.com/p/mohsen-mahda… U.S. District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford granted bail to Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi yesterday, but he also said more.

"Our nation has seen times like this before," he wrote citing the Red Scare and the Palmer Raids of 1919-1920 leading to thousands of deportations.

HAPPENING SOON:

Law firm Jenner & Block urges a federal judge to put Trump's order targeting it in the dustbin of history. You can listen in!

Find out about how and where to attend historic court cases every week at @AllRiseNews allrisenews.com/p/rising-this-… The court officer says: "All Rise!"

Judge Bates enters the courtroom at the start of the proceedings.

Judge Boasberg begins his hearing to determine whether he will find the Trump admin violated his temporary restraining order to turn back Venezuelan immigrant flights.

I'll be listening in and providing periodic updates. Boasberg puts DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign on the defensive, highlighting the limited scope of his order:

The Trump admin can still deport TdA members under any other number of authorities — other than summary expulsions under the Alien Enemies Act.

Ensign agrees.

A federal judge adjourned the Eric Adams trial indefinitely — but appointed former solicitor general Paul Clement as a friend-of-the-court.

Judge Ho will have an “adversarial” process on whether to dismiss the case. buff.ly/3QuVmtB Explainer:

This is a significant setback for Trump's ex-defense lawyer and acting DAG Emil Bove, who wanted dismissal of Adams case without adversarial proceedings.

Tapping Paul Clement, who argued for the US before SCOTUS, Judge Ho seems mindful of a ruling surviving appeals.

Good afternoon from New York.

Protesters showed up outside federal court in Manhattan for today's hearing from a 19-state coalition of attorneys general challenging DOGE and Elon Musk's access to the Treasury's payment system — temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

Arguments for an injunction at 2 p.m. ET. "All rise."

"The Honorable Jeannette A. Vargas presiding."

Assistant NYAG Andrew Amer, who argued Trump's civil fraud case, will also present arguments today for the coalition.

SDNY Civil Division Chief Jeffrey Oestericher argues for the government.

As the FBI agents' hearing resumes, @NormEisen announces the parties are "one word" away from a temporary deal protecting their names.

The govt will agree that "There is no present intent, directly or indirectly," to disclose the list of names, and provide two days of advanced, written notice if that changes.

The hurdle? For now, DOJ won't make this commitment govt-wide. That raises a question for the judge: Who else has it?@NormEisen presses for that answer:

"You'll forgive the heat of my emotions, but the men and women of the FBI... have been tormented the past two days."

Good morning from New York.

Trump will be sentenced for 34 felonies at 9:30 am ET. He will appear by video and likely will face no criminal penalties. It could be over in an hour.

But the fight over its symbolism gives it historic weight. I’m covering it live. Consider: Over the past week, Trump's lawyers filed hundreds of pages of high-pitched arguments in four courts, at every level of the NY judiciary and SCOTUS, in a failed bid to stop these proceedings.

BREAKING:

A federal judge grants sanctions against Rudy Giuliani for discovery violations.

The requested relief was an adverse inference moving the Georgia election workers he defamed closer to getting his $3.5M Palm Beach condo.

Judge Liman is reciting his ruling and its scope now. Earlier today, Giuliani's lawyer described adverse inferences as the "death penalty" for the case.

Liman granted adverse inferences, not yet specified.

So far, the Trump appointee slammed Giuliani's "blithe disregard" for the court's holding and "preposterous" conduct.

Rudy Giuliani is in federal court now.

He was order to appear after the Georgia election workers he defamed say he "secreted away" assets from his N.Y. apartment — and reportedly went to Trump's polling station in a Mercedes convertible ordered to be turned over to them.
The hearing has begun.

Attorney for Giuliani: Ken Caruso.

For Ga. election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman: Aaron Nathan

A Georgia judge has VOIDED several rules passed by the GOP-dominated State Election Board.

The Georgia GOP reportedly plans to appeal, per @Bluestein.

I'll break down the now-stricken rules in a thread below, summarizing the ruling linked here. 🔗 assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2… 1) 183-1-12-.02(c.2):

This rule would have allowed county board members to conduct a "reasonable inquiry" of election results, an undefined power they previously never had and was the purview of the courts.

Background here. justsecurity.org/100005/electio…

Good morning from New York.

Mayor Eric Adams has just entered the courtroom for a hearing in his federal corruption case. "All rise."

U.S. District Judge Dale Ho is presiding.

Good morning from Washington, D.C.

After a long hiatus, Trump’s election subversion case is slated for another status conference.

The scene outside the courthouse this morning.

I’ll cover the proceedings live at 10 a.m. ET. "All rise."

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan takes the bench.

Proceedings are about to begin.

NEWS:

Jack Smith just filed a superseding indictment against Trump.

Prosecutors say the new indictment "reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions in Trump v. United States."

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Note for those unfamiliar:

A superseding indictment replaces an existing indictment.

There are no new charges in today's indictment against Trump here, only the same four leveled against him in connection with the 2020 election, tailored to pass the Supreme Court's new test.

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. DA Bragg's deadline to respond to Trump's arguments is July 24.