Politics

By Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — A Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris’ detail was removed from their assignment after displaying behavior that colleagues found “distressing,” the agency said. The incident occurred about 9 a.m. ET Monday at Joint Base Andrews, the agency said, ahead of a planned visit by the

By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court appeared ready to reject former President Donald Trump’s claims of sweeping immunity and the broad protections he has sought to shut down his federal election subversion case, but also reluctant to give special counsel Jack Smith carte blanche to pursue those

By Kara Scannell and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against former President Donald Trump and denied Trump’s motion for a new trial. Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a written opinion, said Trump’s legal arguments are without merit. The judge also

By Arlette Saenz, Nikki Carvajal, Donald Judd and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — Kim Kardashian joined Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House on Thursday for a roundtable to discuss pardons issued by President Joe Biden – the latest inroad the reality star has made into national criminal justice policy. The conversation came

By MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is making a new digital ad buy in Pennsylvania aimed specifically at targeting Nikki Haley supporters, campaign officials told CNN, marking the latest sign of the Biden team’s growing efforts to try to woo would-be Republican voters who find Donald Trump unacceptable. The decision

By Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday night downplayed the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which led to a woman’s death, as a “peanut” compared to the demonstrations happening across the US against Israel’s actions in Gaza. In August 2017, White nationalists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing groups descended

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Amid calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from a high-stakes case over whether Donald Trump has presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, the conservative jurist has made clear that he doesn’t plan to step aside – or even respond publicly to the appeals from Democrats and others. The

By Kevin Liptak and Kayla Tausche, CNN Syracuse, New York (CNN) — President Joe Biden might not be saying much about his Republican challenger’s criminal trial, but as Donald Trump sits in a Manhattan courtroom — irritated, seemingly tired and, by his own declaration, freezing cold — the president is still finding plenty to say

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — When he was president, Donald Trump tried to make the Supreme Court his own. He bragged that he could have his way, beginning with his appointment of justices who, he vowed, would overturn Roe v. Wade. And when his administration lost immigration disputes in lower courts, his

By CNN staff (CNN) — An Arizona grand jury has indicted allies of former President Donald Trump over their efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including the fake electors from that state and individuals connected to his campaign. Individuals charged in the Arizona indictment include Trump allies Rudy Giuliani; former White House chief of staff Mark

CNN By Haley Talbot, Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia University’s president to resign Wednesday during a tense news conference where the crowd repeatedly interrupted the speaker and at times loudly booed him and other GOP lawmakers who were with him as they stood at the microphones. “We just can’t allow

By Zachary Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A grand jury in Arizona has handed up an indictment against former President Donald Trump’s allies over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, including the fake electors from that state and several individuals connected to his campaign. Boris Epshteyn, a former White House aide who

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Whether the legal system can hold Donald Trump accountable for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election has been an evolving conversation among courts across the country. On Thursday, the Supreme Court will enter the chat. The high court is by no means bound by how other federal courts have

By Daniel Dale and Kate Sullivan, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is a famed exaggerator of the size of his crowds. For years, he has lied about how many supporters attended his presidential inauguration and numerous campaign rallies. Now he’s pushing a wildly inaccurate claim about how many supporters have attempted to show up

By Haley Talbot, Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia University’s president to resign Wednesday during a tense news conference where the crowd repeatedly interrupted the speaker and at times loudly booed him and other GOP lawmakers who were with him as they stood at the microphones. “We just can’t allow this

By Alayna Treene, Kylie Atwood and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — When South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was in Saudi Arabia late last month meeting with Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, the country’s young, defacto ruler, the two decided to call up a mutual acquaintance— Donald Trump. Graham was there to discuss the high-stakes

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Michigan attorney general’s probe into the attempts to overturn the 2020 election in that state, an investigator testified Wednesday. The investigator also said the list of unindicted co-conspirators includes ex-Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Trump White House chief of