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Supreme Court Rejects Jan. 6 Appeal From John Eastman

2Oct

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Supreme Court Rejects Jan. 6 Appeal From John Eastman

The Supreme Court rejected a request by indicted right-wing attorney John Eastman to throw out court rulings that identified him as a key figure in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.The court’s ruling on Monday affirms lower court decisions that resulted in Capitol riot investigators getting access to Eastman’s emails as part of their probe into the events of Jan. 6, 2021. A federal district judge in California had previously ruled that Eastman’s emails include evidence of a likely crime related to Trump’s attempt to stay in power.Eastman is considered the legal architect of the plan to have then-Vice President Mike Pence use his ceremonial role to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election so that Trump could...

Trump Co-Defendant Kenneth Chesebro Pleads Not Guilty In Georgia Case

1Sep

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Trump Co-Defendant Kenneth Chesebro Pleads Not Guilty In Georgia Case

Kenneth Chesebro, the attorney accused of concocting the fake electors strategy deployed by former President Donald Trump in 2020, has pleaded not guilty on seven criminal charges.Chesebro’s plea in the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was filed Thursday and also waives his right to a formal arraignment on multiple state charges, including counts of racketeering and conspiracy to commit forgery. His trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 23.Chesebro also asked the court to sever his trial from co-defendant Sidney Powell, a former Trump campaign lawyer who has also pleaded not guilty, arguing that they worked separately with Trump and had no direct contact with each other.In that request, Chesebro’s lawyers slammed “attempts by the State to incorrectly paint Mr. Cheseb...

Here Are The Mug Shots In The Georgia Election Case

23Aug

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Here Are The Mug Shots In The Georgia Election Case

Last week, a grand jury in Georgia accused former President Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators of scheming to overturn the state’s results of the 2020 presidential election so that he could remain in office.In the Aug. 14 indictment are racketeering and corrupt organizations statutes that, in addition to Trump, have resulted in a long list of charges for his close allies like Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and John Eastman.Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis gave all 19 defendants until noon on Friday to surrender. As of Wednesday evening, nine of the indicted co-conspirators have turned themselves in to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. Trump, whose bond has been set at $200,000, has confirmed he will surrender on Thursday.Despite now being indicted in four criminal cases, Trump ...

Fani Wallis’s Indictment of Donald Trump and a Voting-System Breach

19Aug

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Fani Wallis’s Indictment of Donald Trump and a Voting-System Breach

On Monday night, when Georgia’s Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, released her forty-one-count, ninety-eight-page indictment of nineteen people who allegedly conspired to subvert the 2020 Presidential election in that state, the spotlight was on the most prominent suspects: former President Donald Trump, his chief of staff Mark Meadows, and his lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Sidney Powell. Here, according to the indictment, was the President of the United States conspiring to overturn the results of a legitimate election, abetted by officers of the court who themselves conspired to subvert the law of the land. Then there are the other defendants, whom those at the top allegedly relied on to help carry out various plots. Three of them—Scott Hall, Misty Hampton, and Ca...

The Benefits and Drawbacks to Charging Trump Like a Mobster

17Aug

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The Benefits and Drawbacks to Charging Trump Like a Mobster

On Monday night, Donald Trump and eighteen other people were indicted on forty-one felony counts by a grand jury in Atlanta. The case stemmed from Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 Presidential-election results in Georgia, where he was narrowly defeated by Joe Biden. Earlier this month, Jack Smith, a special counsel for the Department of Justice, filed a federal indictment related to Trump’s conduct in the aftermath of his election loss. A notable distinction between the two cases is that Fani Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, decided to charge Trump and his associates under the state’s RICO Act, a racketeering statute that traditionally has been used to pursue organized crime. (She also charged Trump with thirteen felony counts, whereas Smith charged the former...

Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Trump’s Other Partners in Alleged Crime

16Aug

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Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Trump’s Other Partners in Alleged Crime

If Georgia’s indictment of Donald Trump and his associates achieves nothing else, it has reminded us of just how extensive the plot to reverse the election in the Peach State was, and how many people were involved in it. In some ways, the ninety-eight-page charging document reads like a yearbook for the graduates of Trump High, class of 2020. Nut cases, yes, many of them were (and still are), but they were determined and dangerous nuts. And the most determined of them all, of course, was Trump himself, who is facing thirteen charges, including violating Georgia’s racketeering law, soliciting a public official to violate their oath, conspiring to commit forgery in the first degree, and conspiring to file false documents.Unlike in the federal election-interference case against Trump, where ...

Trump’s Legal Team Linked To Georgia Voting Systems Breach: Report

13Aug

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Trump’s Legal Team Linked To Georgia Voting Systems Breach: Report

Prosecutors investigating the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election results in Georgia have texts and emails that connect members of former President Donald Trump’s legal team to the January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, according to a CNN exclusive.Texts and other evidence collected by investigators in the Georgia criminal probe indicate Trump’s lawyers tried to gain access to Coffee County’s voting systems so Trump’s allies could produce evidence for the unfounded theory that the election was stolen, according to CNN’s sources.Fani Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, is expected to present her case before a grand jury this week and to seek charges against roughly a dozen individuals, including those involved in the Coffee County voting systems breach....

Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fake Elector Plot Said It Was ‘Bold’ But Doomed

9Aug

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Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fake Elector Plot Said It Was ‘Bold’ But Doomed

A lawyer working with former President Donald Trump’s campaign pitched the now-infamous plan to install slates of fake electors in swing states as “bold,” “controversial” and likely to be rejected by the Supreme Court, according to his memo.The memo, published by The New York Times on Tuesday night, was written by Kenneth Chesebro and sent on Dec. 6, 2020, as the Trump campaign was working on multiple fronts to keep the former president in power after his electoral loss to Joe Biden. Prosecutors referenced the document as a key piece of evidence in the indictment of Trump last week, but this is the first time the memo has been made public.Chesebro — identified as Co-Conspirator 5 in the government’s case against Trump — was a key architect of the effort to install the fake electors. The p...

The Mind-Bending World of Trump, His Indictments, and the 2024 Election

8Aug

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The Mind-Bending World of Trump, His Indictments, and the 2024 Election

It has been six days since the Justice Department indicted Donald Trump on felony charges related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and it’s already getting hard to keep up with the latest developments. On Monday morning, Trump, in a post on his social-media site, accused the special counsel Jack Smith of trying to deny his First Amendment rights by asking that the court order the former President not to disclose evidence prosecutors have gathered. Trump also criticized Judge Tanya Chutkin, an Obama appointee who has imposed tough penalties on some defendants involved in the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, repeating his demand that she recuse herself from the case. Meanwhile, in Florida, Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed judge in the classified-documen...

Trump’s Offense Against Democracy Itself

2Aug

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Trump’s Offense Against Democracy Itself

The events that culminated in the rollout of the Justice Department’s most recent indictment of Donald Trump, on Tuesday, had a familiar ring: a barrage of social-media broadsides and gratuitous insults from the putative defendant, and hours of breathless cable-TV vamping about news that had not yet happened. (“A micro-development, but that’s all we have right now, Jake,” the CNN senior legal correspondent, Paula Reid, told the anchor Jake Tapper at one point.) In the early afternoon, reporters who had staked out the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse, in downtown Washington, D.C., announced that the grand jury had left for the day. At 4:41 P.M., Trump made the reveal on his Truth Social account: “I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election o...