Wednesday’s hearing also provided some insight into how the election subversion case involving former president Donald Trump could play out, with prosecutors estimating a trial would take four months
‘Should the new populism of the right seize and guide our party, the Republican Party we’ve long known will cease to exist and the fate of American freedom would be in doubt,’ the former vice president said in a speech Wednesday
While a few fringe figures have filed thinly written lawsuits in a few states citing the clause, the litigation Wednesday was the first by an organization with significant legal resources
Four months after a jury found the former president sexually abused and defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge has ruled still more of his comments about her were libelous
Judge Timothy J. Kelly applied the aggravating circumstance of terrorism to a seditious conspiracy conviction for the leader of the far-right militia nicknamed ‘Trump’s Army’
Trump’s strength comes despite — or perhaps because of — multiple criminal indictments threatening to overshadow any serious debate about the future of the country
Tarrio will be the final Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the January 6, 2021, riot. Prosecutors want the 39-year-old Miami resident to get more than three decades in prison
Time is running short for Congress to act on the budget: the House is scheduled to meet for just 11 days before the government’s fiscal year ends September 30
A recent incident in which Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze up has fueled debate about whether Biden and Trump are too old to run for president
He joins the former president and at least 10 others in forgoing a trip to Atlanta to appear before a judge in a packed courtroom with a news camera rolling
Organizer Joseph Biggs got a 17-year sentence, while leader Zachary Rehl got 15 years. Enrique Tarrio, who was the Proud Boys’ national chairman and top leader, is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday
In newly public testimony, Donald Trump boasts about building a multibillion-dollar brand and saving “millions of lives” as president
Some point to former President Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly and falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen and spreading conspiracy theories about election workers
‘That day broke our tradition of peacefully transferring power, which is among the most precious things that we had as Americans,’ the judge said, emphasizing that he was using the past tense in light of how Jan. 6 affected the process
Meanwhile, at least two of the 18 defendants charged alongside the former president in the election interference case have filed demands for a speedy trial and have asked to be tried separately from others in the case
The 14th Amendment bars from office anyone who once took an oath to uphold the Constitution but then ‘engaged’ in ‘insurrection or rebellion’ against it
Prosecutors are seeking 33 years behind bars for Tarrio. That would be the longest sentence so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases
The ruling compounds the legal jeopardy for Giuliani at a time when he and Trump are both among 19 defendants charged this month in a racketeering case related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp, who previously survived scathing attacks from Trump over his refusal to endorse the former president’s false claims about the election, has declined to comment on the Aug. 14 indictment
The stance suggests a desire to turn at least part of the sprawling prosecution into a referendum on the boundaries of ethical lawyering in a case that highlights anew how Trump’s own attorneys have become entangled in his own legal problems
The Project 2025 effort is being led by the Heritage Foundation think tank and fueled by former Trump administration officials. They want to shrink government from within by firing up to 50,000 federal workers
The former White House chief of staff requested to have his case transferred from state to federal court, which could be key in the future of the racketeering trial against him and 18 other people, including the ex-president
All 19 defendants, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, may enter pleas on that day as well
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision denies a defense request to push the trial back until April 2026, about a year and a half after the 2024 election
Unflattering portraits of Joe Biden and Donald Trump emerged clearly in a new poll by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which asked an open-ended question about what comes to mind when people think of them
Some Republicans are eager to go after Biden over claims of financial misconduct involving his son Hunter, but the Democratic president has not been shown to have done anything wrong
The former president seeks to delay his trial as long as possible and have his case separated from the rest, while some of the other 18 defendants prefer speedy trials