CNN’s Elie Honig Breaks Down Why Prosecuting Trump Admin Signal Leak Could Be ‘Tricky’
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said Tuesday that it may be difficult to prove that President Donald Trump’s cabinet members committed “crime” by planning an attack on a signalling messaging platform. Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of Atlantic, announced piece On Monday, he detailed the incorrectly included in a signal group chat entitled “Houthi PC Small […]
CNN’s Elie Honig Says Trump Deportations May Not Have Defied Judge’s Order At All
Ellie Honig, a senior legal analyst at CNN, said Monday that President Donald Trump may not have ignored the orders of a federal judge who temporarily blocked South America from deporting hundreds of Venezuelan gang members. US District Judge James E. Boasburg It’s blocked Saturday’s deportation said he already had two planes in the air […]
CNN’s Elie Honig Says Trump ‘Strategy’ On Border, DOGE Is ‘Not Unconstitutional’
CNN legal analyst Ellie Honig said on Monday that President Donald Trump’s efforts to address wasteful government spending and illegal immigration were “not unconstitutional.” The Trump administration is an attractive injunction imposed by a federal judge. Government Efficiency Bureau (Doge) and Trump January 20th Presidential Order End birthright citizenship. Honig said Trump’s plan was to […]
Elie Honig Explains Why Trump ‘Actually Gets A Benefit’ By Being Sentenced
CNN legal analyst Ellie Honig said Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump is “actually benefiting” from the ruling Friday from New York state judge Juan Marchan. The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision in which Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberals, rejected an emergency appeal by the […]
CNN’s Elie Honig Says Prior Ruling In Docs Case Could Doom Jack Smith’s Plan To Release Report On Trump
CNN Senior Legal Analyst Ellie Honig said Tuesday that U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon’s ruling that the appointment of a special counsel is unconstitutional has led to special counsel Jack Smith’s planned appointment to incoming Donald Trump. He said the release of the report on the president could be doomed. President Trump and his Florida […]
‘Very Unusual’: CNN’s Elie Honig Explains What Will Likely Happen With Trump’s Upcoming Sentencing
Ellie Honig, CNN’s senior legal analyst, says that future attempts by President-elect Donald Trump to overturn Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against him in connection with the case against him are likely to be precluded by prosecutors. He said there would likely be legal exchanges between the defendant and the defense. Judge Juan Melchán, […]
‘He’s Over His Head’: CNN’s Elie Honig Says Matt Gaetz Is ‘Woefully Unqualified’ To Be Attorney General
CNN senior legal analyst Ellie Honig argued Thursday that Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz is “completely unqualified” to serve as attorney general in President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration. President Trump announced in a statement Wednesday in Truth Social magazine that he has nominated Gaetz to be his next attorney general. During a panel discussion about […]
CNN’s Elie Honig Says It Is A ’50/50 Call’ That Trump’s Upcoming Sentencing Will Occur
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said Thursday that the possibility that President-elect Donald Trump will actually be sentenced remains up in the air. A jury found Trump guilty of 13 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 hush-money payment to former porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claimed the two had an affair […]
CNN’s Elie Honig Says He ‘Can’t Think Of Any Precedent’ For Judge Releasing Trump Evidence So Close To Election
CNN Senior Legal Analyst Ellie Honig reported Friday that Judge Tanya Chutkan will present a redacted document of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s evidence against former President Donald Trump as the November election approaches. He said he was not aware of any “precedent” for the publication of the same. President Trump opposed releasing the materials so […]
CNN’s Elie Honig Says Jack Smith’s Evidence Brief Was Released In ‘Unusual’ Way
CNN senior legal analyst Ellie Honig said Wednesday that the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's redacted brief detailing allegations of election interference by Republican candidate Donald Trump was done in an “unusual” manner. He said that he was Judge Tanya Chutkan released a 165-page brief containing evidence gathered in the investigation into whether President […]
