2020 Election: Latest News and Updates

A judge ruled that the Fulton County D.A. can stay on the case against Trump, as long as her special prosecutor steps aside, but noted that “an odor of mendacity remains.”

Will the Fulton County D.A.’s “clandestine” relationship derail her effort to prosecute Trump?

A jury decided that Giuliani owes two election workers whom he defamed nearly a hundred and fifty million dollars. Even his lawyer suggested he “hasn’t been so great lately.”

The Louisiana Republican is best known for leading an effort to vote against certifying the results of the 2020 election—not because of fraud but on arcane legal grounds.

The former attorney for Donald Trump was one of nineteen people indicted in Georgia for allegedly conspiring to overturn the result of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.

Does the Fourteenth Amendment empower state election officials to remove him from the ballot?

The charges include allegations about a largely overlooked incident in Coffee County, Georgia.

Racketeering statutes allow prosecutors to arrange many characters and a broad set of allegations into a single narrative. Making the story cohere can be a challenge.

The judicial system is doing its work, and the former President has never been a man of the people.

In Georgia, eighteen “crackpot lawyers,” former Trump campaign officials, and local Republicans have been indicted for conspiring with the former President to overturn the 2020 election.

After weathering the former President’s assaults in late 2020 and early 2021, the American justice system, and its commitment to the rule of law, is about to be tested again.

The former President has been indicted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and remain in power. How will the charges be litigated in the court of public opinion?

At his arraignment on Thursday, the former President sat fragile and meek in the defendant’s seat.

The case will hinge on proving whether the former President truly believed that the election was stolen as he attempted to overturn it.

Since the filing of new charges against the ex-President, many G.O.P. politicians—including some of Trump’s rivals in the primary—have already adopted his framing of the Justice Department’s case.

At last, the former President’s “fraud,” “deceit,” and “lies” are called out in court.

With the former President still far ahead of the rest of the Republican field, the American electorate is headed for a crucial test.

Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, often relies on Georgia’s capacious RICO statute—though critics say that she has stretched it past the law’s intent.

The Justice Department is reportedly using a civil-rights law that “puts front and center the injury to the American people,” rather than to the government.

But, with 2024 looming, is it already too late?