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Ryan Routh, the man accused of hiding in the bushes of a Florida golf course with a semi-automatic rifle to try to assassinate Donald Trump less than two months before the 2024 U.S. election that returned him to the presidency, is set to be sentenced today. Here’s what to know: |
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Prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to sentence Routh to life in prison during the hearing in Fort Pierce, Florida.
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Routh, 59, was convicted by a jury last September of five criminal counts including attempted assassination after serving as his own defense lawyer at trial.
- Routh has asked the judge, a Trump appointee, to impose a 27-year term.
- Read more here.
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Criminal: The California Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether it violates the state constitution if a judge sets bail at a level a person cannot afford.
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Voting rights: The Florida Supreme Judicial Court will weigh whether the Office of Statewide Prosecution, created to combat organized crime, has the authority to prosecute people accused of voting despite being ineligible to do so.
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Judiciary: The U.S. Senate is expected to vote to confirm as many as three of President Trump's judicial nominees, and the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear several others.
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Criminal: Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man accused of shooting two National Guard members, killing one, in an ambush in D.C. in November is due to enter a plea to murder and other criminal charges.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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Paul Weiss Chairman Brad Karp “regrets” interactions with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, the law firm said, after a trove of emails revealed more extensive communications between the two men than previously known. Read more here.
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Goldman Sachs' top lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler accepted gifts from late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and advised him on how to address press inquiries regarding his crimes, according to a Reuters review of emails among millions of documents the DOJ released last week. Read more here.
- New York-founded law firm Hecker Fink, which has mounted several legal challenges against the Trump administration, added O’Melveny SCOTUS litigator Jeffrey Fisher as of counsel. Read more here.
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King & Spalding hired nine litigation partners from rival Winston & Strawn, marking the latest significant group defection between large firms in recent weeks. Read more here.
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The University of Florida asked the 11th Circuit to reverse a lower court’s order that it readmit an expelled law student who administrators say demonstrated a “pattern of disruptive behavior,” in a case testing campus free speech rights.
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New York is creating a team of legal observers who will don purple vests to monitor and record the Trump administration's immigration enforcement officers as they seek to detain and deport migrants, state Attorney General Letitia James said. Learn more.
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