Sep 13, 2018 · Maryland's attorney general, Brian Frosh, has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's administration for efforts he says are intended to …
Jun 12, 2017 · Another lawsuit has been filed to force President Trump to sell off his businesses. But this one is different: It was filed on behalf of attorneys general …
Jun 12, 2017 · The suit, being filed Monday by D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, says Trump has engaged in “unprecedented constitutional violations,” the Washington ...
In 2013, in a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Trump was accused of defrauding more than 5,000 people of $40 million for the opportunity to learn Trump's real estate investment techniques in a for-profit training program, Trump University, which operated from 2005 to 2011.
Trump v. Vance - In July 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the State of New York could issue a grand-jury subpoena of the President's financial records. The request was determined not to violate Article II or the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.
On December 18, 2020, the Supreme Court dismissed the case.
Trump & Republican National Committee. Roger Stone (Roger J. Stone Jr.) found guilty by a jury in November 2019 of on obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and tampering with a witness in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Trump and his team filed dozens of false and frivolous lawsuits regarding the procedures in the 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden's victory. Georgia Cobb County and DeKalb County filed lawsuits to recover costs associated with frivolous lawsuits.
In March 2021, U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) for their actions on the day the U.S. Capitol was stormed. In March 2021, two Capitol Police Officers filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump.
A similar suit was filed in a New York federal court in January by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, a public-interest group. On Friday, the Trump administration's Justice Department responded, saying the case should be dismissed because the plaintiffs lack the legal standing to sue.
Racine and Frosh said in a news conference that the Trump hotel, just blocks from the White House, creates unfair competition for other businesses in the District and Maryland.
Lawrence Noble, senior director and general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, told NPR the two attorneys general are "saying that they're being adversely affected by the president's violation of the Emoluments Clause, and they make a very strong argument that financially, they're being affected."
As of February 2021, Trump is being investigated in connection to multiple civil and criminal matters: 1 Two investigations in the state of Georgia regarding phone calls that Trump made to the Georgia Secretary of State. In the call, Trump asks the Secretary of State to "find votes" to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. 2 An investigation in the state of New York, examining the business dealings of the Trump Organization. The investigation is probing possible loan fraud and tax fraud. Mark Pomerantz, an attorney with extensive experience in prosecuting white-collar and organized crime as the former head of the criminal division in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, joined the investigation as a special assistant district attorney on February 2, 2021. Trump's legal team argued that while he was President, he was not required to respond to subpoenas, which delayed investigations and resulted in court cases such as Trump v. Vance. On May 18, 2021, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that her office would be pursuing the case "in a criminal capacity", upgrading from a formerly civil investigation.
Maher had appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and had offered to pay $5 million to a charity if Trump produced his birth certificate to prove that Trump's mother had not mated with an orangutan.
Trump threatened to sue the analyst's firm unless the analyst recanted or was fired. The analyst refused to retract the statements, and his firm fired him for ostensibly unrelated reasons. Trump Taj Mahal declared bankruptcy in November 1990, the first of several such bankruptcies. The NYSE later ordered the firm to compensate the analyst $750,000; the analyst did not release the details of his settlement with Trump.
Trump was charged with circumventing state law to spend $150,000 lobbying against government approval of plans to construct an Indian-run casino in the Catskills, which would have diminished casino traffic to Trump's casinos in Atlantic City.
In 1985, New York City brought a lawsuit against Trump for allegedly using tactics to force out tenants of 100 Central Park South, which he intended to demolish together with the building next door. After ten years in court, the two sides negotiated a deal allowing the building to stand as condominiums.
Trump, sued Trump and his siblings Robert and Maryanne Trump, alleging that they fraudulently kept her and her brother out of the will of Fred Trump (Donald's father), including by conspiring with a trustee assigned to her, and acted to devalue her interests in the family business—effectively defrauding her of tens of millions of dollars. Further, she alleges that these accomplices pressured her to sign a settlement agreement by threatening to bankrupt interests benefitting her and cut off the healthcare insurance for her infant nephew, who was then suffering from cerebral palsy.
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels has alleged that she and Trump had an extramarital affair in 2006, months after the birth of his youngest child. Just before the 2016 presidential election Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 by Trump's attorney Michael Cohen as part of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), through an LLC set up by Cohen; he says he used his own money for the payment. In February 2018, Daniels filed suit against the LLC asking to be released from the agreement so that she can tell her story. Cohen filed a private arbitration proceeding and obtained a restraining order to keep her from discussing the case. According to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump has denied the allegations.
Throughout his presidency Donald Trump has used his Twitter account as a way to "bypass" traditional media a speak directly to his constituents. Now, several Twitter users who were blocked by the president's @realDonaldTrump handle are suing.
The Emoluments Clause. The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Getty Images. Within the Constitution, there is a relatively obscure mandate known as the foreign Emoluments Clause. The provision, which lies in Article I, reads:
According to the Boston Globe, by May 5, President Trump had been sued a remarkable 134 times in federal court since his inauguration.
According to the New York Times, the administration is seeking to appeal that case to the Supreme Court. Back in February, the Ninth Circuit blocked Trump's original travel ban, which was much broader in scope.
On August 28, the ACLU announced it is suing Donald Trump, in his official capacity as President of the United States, over his decision to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. The federal lawsuit also names James Mattis, Ryan McCarthy, Richard Spencer, and Heather Wilson in their official capacities as well.
The president has been sued more than 100 times in federal court since his inauguration. And today, the ACLU has announced it is suing President Trump over his decision to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit was filed in Maryland on behalf of Petty Officer First Class Brock Stone, ...
Just days before Trump's inauguration, former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos sued the then President-elect for defamation. Zervos said that Trump kissed and groped her, claims which Trump publicly denied. He said the allegations were "100% fabricated and made-up charges," "totally false," and "totally made up nonsense," which prompted Zervos 's lawyers to ask for an apology. When she didn't get it, she sued.
Donald Trump's estranged and surely least-favorite niece Mary Trump alleged in a 2020 lawsuit her famous uncle conspired to fleece her inheritance. Filed in Trump's none-too-friendly home state of New York, the suit centers around funds Mary feels were owed to her from Trump's father's vast real-estate empire. She claims, "fraud was not just the family business — it was a way of life," according to CNN.
Donald Trump has been involved in anywhere between 3,500 to over 4,000 lawsuits in his long career as a businessman, showman, and politician, according to a tally by USA Today. But here we focus on the plaintiff-in-chief — those suits levied at the man in the oval office, who, as Politico says, has a real relish for legal battles. He was sued at least 60 times in the first three weeks of his presidency, according to the Los Angeles Times — though many of those filings were frivolous and quite funny.
John Mellencamp came after Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and John McCain for the use of his songs, according to Entertainment Weekly. Tom Petty similarly wouldn't back down when George W. Bush and Michele Bachmann used his songs for campaign purposes. Neil Young had exactly the same feeling when Donald Trump used "Rockin' in ...
If anyone has ever tried to make you feel bad about your degree from The University of Phoenix, well, you're practically a Rhodes Scholar compared to unhappy students at Donald Trump's now-defunct for-profit Trump University — at least according to former pupils.
Donald Trump shared a video in 2020 with his 86 million Twitter acolytes that purported to be a clip from the president's cable news nemesis CNN featuring a black baby running from a white baby above a diabolical chyron that read, "Terrified Toddler Runs From Racist Baby." The clip, which can still be seen on Youtube, went viral. Some saw the joke, some were outraged CNN would (they thought) impute such motive to small children.
Donald Trump was ordered by the New York Supreme Court in 2019 to pay $2 million in damages for using his charitable organization to benefit his run through the Republican primary in 2016, according to a ruling announced by Attorney General Letitia.
In more professional and far less fun legal wrangling, the great state of California has basically been suing Donald Trump and his administration since day one. At issue are a variety of federal policies for which the Golden State has spent $43 million in litigation costs in the first four years of Trump's administration, according to The Sacramento Bee.