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Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot

Updated Dec. 28, 2023 8:06 pm ETMaine’s top election official on Thursday barred Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot, marking the second state to knock the Republican former president off its ballot and escalating a national legal effort to disqualify him from office.In a 34-page written decision, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, said Trump isn’t qualified to hold office because of his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Don’t Let Trump ‘Inject Politics’ Into Courtroom, Special Counsel Urges
27Dec By adminNo Comments
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Don’t Let Trump ‘Inject Politics’ Into Courtroom, Special Counsel Urges

Updated Dec. 27, 2023 2:44 pm ETWASHINGTON—Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal judge Wednesday to fend off Donald Trump’s attempts to “inject politics” into the criminal case alleging he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results, taking particular aim at the former president’s claims that he is being subjected to a vindictive and selective prosecution.In a court filing, Smith’s team asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to prevent Trump and his defense lawyers from turning “the courtroom into a forum in which he propagates irrelevant disinformation.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Trump Asks Appeals Court to Dismiss Election-Interference Case
24Dec By adminNo Comments
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Trump Asks Appeals Court to Dismiss Election-Interference Case

WASHINGTON—Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal appeals court late Saturday to throw out the case that he illegally sought to undo his 2020 election loss, reiterating his argument that those efforts fell within the ambit of his official duties as president.The filing to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which came late in the evening of the deadline set by the court, was the latest turn in the battle between Trump and special counsel Jack Smith. The Supreme Court on Friday declined Smith’s bid to fast-track a decision on whether Trump is immune, leaving the issue in the hands of the appeals court.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Trump’s Ballot Eligibility Adds to Voting Battles in 2024
22Dec By adminNo Comments
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Trump’s Ballot Eligibility Adds to Voting Battles in 2024

Updated Dec. 22, 2023 5:11 pm ETThe fast-moving legal drama over Donald Trump’s fitness for the presidential ballot adds to a growing pile of court battles that promises to be a central story line in the 2024 election. Even before Colorado’s top court deemed Trump an insurrectionist and therefore ineligible to hold office, other courts were considering voting cases that could affect millions of people. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Supreme Court Leaves Arguments on Trump Immunity to Appeals Court 
22Dec By adminNo Comments
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Supreme Court Leaves Arguments on Trump Immunity to Appeals Court 

Updated Dec. 22, 2023 2:52 pm ETWASHINGTON—The Supreme Court said it wouldn’t intervene before an appeals court acts on Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution over efforts he took as president to overturn the 2020 election.The high court’s denial of a request from special counsel Jack Smith, announced in a one-sentence order, increases the chances that the former president’s trial on charges that he interfered in the 2020 election will be delayed beyond its scheduled March 4 starting date.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Trump’s Jan. 6 Case Put on Hold, Imperiling March 4 Trial Date
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Trump’s Jan. 6 Case Put on Hold, Imperiling March 4 Trial Date

Updated Dec. 13, 2023 6:59 pm ETWASHINGTON—A judge temporarily froze criminal proceedings against Donald Trump in the federal case alleging he plotted to overturn the 2020 election results, saying the prosecution shouldn’t advance toward trial while the former president presses immunity claims in higher courts.In a three-page order on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said she was halting “any further proceedings that would move this case towards trial or impose additional burdens of litigation on Defendant [Trump].”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Special Counsel Asks Supreme Court to Quickly Rule on Trump’s Immunity
11Dec By adminNo Comments
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Special Counsel Asks Supreme Court to Quickly Rule on Trump’s Immunity

Updated Dec. 11, 2023 2:44 pm ETWASHINGTON—Special counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to take up Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution and cannot face criminal charges related to efforts to overturn the November 2020 election, in an unusual effort to expedite a judgment crucial for moving the case speedily toward trial.The former president’s lawyers have grounded that argument in the Senate having acquitted him in an 2021 impeachment trial involving many of the same events, and that trying him again would amount to double jeopardy—that is, being prosecuted twice for the same crime.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Trump Changes Mind, Won’t Testify Again as New York Fraud Trial Nears End
10Dec By adminNo Comments
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Trump Changes Mind, Won’t Testify Again as New York Fraud Trial Nears End

Donald Trump changed course on Sunday and said he wouldn’t testify again in his civil-fraud trial, an unexpected pivot in his defense against allegations that threaten the Republican presidential front-runner’s business empire.Trump had been scheduled to take the stand Monday as his lawyers near the conclusion of their defense presentation. The trial began in October and is being decided without a jury, over allegations that the former president lied about his wealth for financial gain.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Pro-Trump Electors in Wisconsin Acknowledge There Was an Effort to ‘Improperly Overturn’ 2020 Vote
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Pro-Trump Electors in Wisconsin Acknowledge There Was an Effort to ‘Improperly Overturn’ 2020 Vote

As part of an unusual legal settlement, a group of 10 Wisconsin Republicans who tried to reverse the outcome of the 2020 presidential election by creating a false slate of electors pledged to Donald Trump have withdrawn the paperwork they sent to Congress and acknowledged that President Biden won the election.The civil settlement, announced Wednesday by legal advocacy groups representing the plaintiffs, marks a milestone in continuing litigation around the country against pro-Trump operatives, sometimes referred to as fake electors, in battleground states including Wisconsin, Georgia and Michigan. In the settlement, a group of pro-Trump electors have for the first time formally withdrawn certificates purporting that the former president won Electoral College votes.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jone...
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Judges Bat Down Donald Trump’s Presidential-Immunity Arguments
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Judges Bat Down Donald Trump’s Presidential-Immunity Arguments

Updated Dec. 1, 2023 9:12 pm ETWASHINGTON—Former President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim absolute immunity to ward off criminal and civil legal actions against him were rebuffed twice Friday in separate legal decisions.U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, presiding over Trump’s election-interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, rejected the former president’s bid to have that case tossed out on the grounds that he enjoys “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution. In court papers, the former president’s lawyers argued that his efforts to challenge his November 2020 election loss had been “within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility” as president.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 ...
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