The U.S. Justice Department has issued about 40 subpoenas over the past week seeking information about efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election, The New York Times reported Monday. The people receiving subpoenas ranged from low-level aides to senior advisers to the former president, the Times reported, citing people familiar with the […]
The former U.S. president’s authoritarian rhetoric generated alarm, with one historian noting that the term “iron fist” was favored by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and used to describe Germany’s Nazi Party. Former President Donald Trump’s use of pro-authoritarian language escalated earlier this week when he celebrated the Republican primary victory of Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl—one […]
“This special master opinion is so bad it’s hard to know where to begin,” said one legal scholar. Legal experts have thoroughly condemned U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon’s Monday decision to prevent the U.S. Department of Justice from using materials obtained during the FBI’s legally authorized search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in its ongoing criminal investigation […]
“Protecting American democracy means ensuring those who violate their oaths to the Constitution are held responsible,” said one government ethics advocate. A state court for the first time on Tuesday ruled that the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol was an insurrection, ordering a county-level official in New Mexico to step down due to […]