So ends the first week of Trump's criminal trial, with a full jury empaneled and all other court housekeeping resolved.

See you back on Monday for opening statements.

Apparently, in Texas, state bar investigators did such a 'scattershot' job putting together its complaint against Sidney Powell for her role in the 2020 election that an appeals court has thrown the case out. search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.as…

Lawyers in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star reut.rs/3Jp1ujx

Breaking News: A juror selected for Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan was dismissed after expressing concern about her identity becoming public.

Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4b0EX8w

NEW: Far-right network OAN reached a settlement with Smartmatic, the voting tech company that was falsely accused of 'rigging' the 2020 election against Trump. Neither side disclosed terms of the deal to resolve the sprawling defamation lawsuit. cnn.com/2024/04/16/med…

There are likely many, many progressive activists in New York who would agree that defendants should be freed to attend graduations, funerals, births and lots of other things they miss while the charges against them are pending.

Finally read the Uri Berliner piece on NPR biasand I'm baffled by how little the enormous media controversy it spawned has resulted in scrutiny of its claims for factual accuracy. There are significant problems with the piece including obvious, verifiable falsehoods

JUST IN: DA Bragg has filed his motion to hold Trump in contempt for recent Truth Social posts criticizing witnesses in the case politico.com/live-updates/2…

The filing: documentcloud.org/documents/2454…

Hunter Biden is scheduled to stand trial on June 20 in one of the two federal courts in which he has been indicted.

Former President Trump has complained extensively about a two-tiered system of justice, but he also keeps asking to be treated better than criminal defendants usually are.

This would require you to commit the crime of perjury. Don't commit crimes, even of Clay Travis thinks you should.

Jury nullification is a double-edged sword, more often used against the defendant than for him.

JUST IN: Judge Howell upholds the jury's defamation verdict against Rudy Giuliani in a 48-page opinion.

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Trump LOSES his renewed motion to recuse Justice Merchan from presiding over his New York criminal trial.

The judge quickly DENIES Trump's motion from the bench before the beginning of jury selection.

JUST IN: Special counsel Smith urges Judge Cannon to reject Trump's latest bid for delay in classified docs case. 'Each time the Court sets a new deadline in this case...the defendants reflexively ask for an adjournment. That must stop.' Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…