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How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk

Politics
Amanda Smith

The email went out to members of Justice Clarence Thomas’ law clerk network late last month celebrating his newest addition to an ...

An ‘Extended Family’ With Reach and Power

Politics
Amanda Smith

In late August, amid a rising outcry over revelations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had received decades of undisclosed gifts and ...

Appeals court reinstates gag order that barred Trump from maligning court staff in NY fraud trial

Politics
Amanda Smith

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court Thursday reinstated a gag order that barred former President Donald Trump from commenting ...

Trump rages about judge and law clerk while gag order is paused in New York fraud trial

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Donald Trump renewed his attacks on the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial in New York and the judge’s law clerk, accusing ...

New York AG urges reinstating gag order over comments about court clerk

Politics
Amanda Smith

Donald Trump’s complaints about a clerk in his New York civil fraud trial are “baseless” and “highly inappropriate,” so a gag order ...

Trump seeks NY fraud mistrial, citing judge’s ‘demonstrable bias,’ law clerk’s ‘co-judging’

Politics
Amanda Smith

Former President Donald Trump requested a mistrial Wednesday in a New York civil fraud case that could strip his ability to do ...

Judge in Trump’s civil fraud trial expands gag order to include the former president’s lawyers

Politics
Amanda Smith

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s $250 million civil fraud trial on Friday imposed a partial gag order on members of the former president’s legal ...