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Trump’s New Lawyer In E. Jean Carroll Case Is An… Odd Choice

  • August 6, 2024
It would appear that Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba is out of E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against the former president … sort of. As with every other procedural aspect of this case, it’s substantially factual, and seems all but guaranteed to piss off Judge Lewis Kaplan. And he was already pretty pissed! To recap: In 2019, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleged that Trump raped her in a New York department store decades earlier. Trump immediately branded Carroll a liar and implied she was too ugly to rape — an allegation slightly undercut when he examined a picture of…
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Donald Trump’s Ex-Lawyer On Documents Case Has Pithy Advice For Trump

  • July 3, 2023
Tim Parlatore, who was a lawyer for Donald Trump in the classified documents case before he quit for personal reasons, offered some advice Tuesday to his old client: Shut up. (Watch the video below.) OK, Parlatore said it in more polite words during his appearance on CNN but his free counsel came in loud and clear. “You have the right to remain silent. Use it,” Parlatore said. Parlatore was shown video of Trump’s interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier in which the ex-president seemed, to many, to admit to willfully keeping sensitive files at Mar-a-Lago after receiving a subpoena to…
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Trump lawyer in classified documents probe resigns

  • June 5, 2023
Parlatore’s exit is the latest example of tension and turmoil in Trump’s legal shop. The former president has often surrounded himself by lawyers with competing strategies. Trump was recently found liable earlier this month in a federal civil trial in New York for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll. He was represented in the trial by Joe Tacopina, a New York based lawyer who has also represented other Trump allies, including Kimberly Guilfoyle and Sean Hannity. Parlatore’s distaste for Tacopina was evident in a recent CNN appearance, when anchor Kaitlan Collins pressed Parlatore on Tacopina’s work for Trump in yet…
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Judge denies Trump’s mistrial motion claiming unfair rulings in trial over E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegation

  • May 9, 2023
A federal judge in New York on Monday denied former President Donald Trump’s bid for a mistrial in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit alleging that Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. In an 18-page filing hours ahead of his second day of cross-examining Carroll, Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina accused US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the case, of making “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against his client. Barring a mistrial ruling, Tacopina requested that Kaplan “correct the record for each and every instance in which the Court has mischaracterized the facts of this…
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A Lawyer Who Was the ‘Backbone of Many Struggles for Justice’ Has Now Inspired a Film

  • March 31, 2023
The courtroom arguments that convinced the judge to release Manju, a tribal youth framed under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, in the recently released Kannada film 19.20.21 drew a standing ovation from the crowd. The arguments explained how three key articles of the Constitution were violated in Manju’s case. The lawyer played on screen by Balaji Manohar was inspired by Dinesh Hegde Ulepady, a lawyer from Mangaluru. Ulepady’s determined fight over the last two decades in several cases of human rights violations, while earning him foes, has made him a hero to many victims of state violence and persecution.…