Zach Schonfeld

Joined: May 24, 2022
Articles: 9

Politics

Trump hush money trial gets off to sluggish start

NEW YORK – Former President Trump became the first former commander-in-chief to stand trial on criminal charges Monday, but it got off to a sluggish start with even Trump himself appearing to nod off at times. For hours, the parties battled over a series of pending legal issues, keeping the hundreds of prospective jurors waiting...

Zach Schonfeld
April 15, 2024

Politics

Trump to make history as first US president to face criminal trial

It’s a day former President Trump hoped would never come. After a relentless pursuit for delay, Trump will make history Monday morning by taking his seat at the defense table in a Manhattan courtroom, where the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president will begin. For four days a week – for six or...

Zach Schonfeld
April 15, 2024

Politics

Trump calls hush money jury selection ‘largely luck,’ offers to testify at trial

Former President Trump described the upcoming jury selection in his first criminal trial as “largely luck” on Friday. Trump was asked about his hush money trial that begins on Monday in New York at a press conference alongside Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at Mar-a-Lago. “Jury selection is largely luck,” the former president said. “It depends...

Zach Schonfeld
April 12, 2024

Politics

Trump attorney argues Georgia charges target core political speech

Lawyers for former President Trump argued Thursday that the charges he faces in Georgia target core political speech and urged the judge to dismiss them under the First Amendment before the case heads to trial. Trump attorney Steve Sadow asserted that statements linked to campaigns and elections have always been found to be at...

Zach Schonfeld
March 28, 2024

Politics

Judge sets Trump’s hush money trial for April 15, rejecting further delay

NEW YORK — A New York judge scheduled former President Trump’s hush money trial to begin April 15, enabling his first criminal trial to still take place this spring after a last-minute delay. Trump, who has looked to postpone all four of his criminal cases, requested the judge punt the trial for at least two...

Zach Schonfeld
March 25, 2024

Politics

Trump’s hush money case set for critical hearing over document dump

The judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money case will hold a consequential hearing Monday to sort out who is to blame for a curveball that delayed the trial at the last minute. Trump’s trial had been widely expected to begin the same day as the hearing until federal prosecutors this month began turning over...

Zach Schonfeld
March 24, 2024

Politics

Alito briefly extends pause of Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito briefly extended the pause of a Texas law enabling state law enforcement officers to arrest migrants entering the United States from Mexico. Alito, who handles emergency appeals arising from Texas, had temporarily frozen the law as the high court weighs a request from the Biden administration to block it for...

Zach Schonfeld
March 12, 2024

Politics

Judge refuses to delay Trump’s $83M judgment in Carroll defamation case

A federal judge on Thursday rejected former President Trump’s request to delay the $83.3 million judgment in advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit, refusing to give Trump more time to post a bond with the deadline only a few days away. The former president and near-certain GOP nominee has mounted efforts to postpone the...

Zach Schonfeld
March 7, 2024

Politics

Almost 1 in 5 say politics has hurt friendships, family relationships: poll

Nineteen percent of registered voters said recent disagreements with family or friends over political issues have hurt their relationship, according to a new Siena College-The New York Times poll. Independents and Democrats were more likely to say so — at 21 percent and 20 percent, respectively — compared to just 14 percent of Republicans. The...

Zach Schonfeld
October 18, 2022