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The director of the FFBI told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that there was no evidence that the January 6 Capitol riot was carried out by leftist extremists under the guise of right-wing extremists. In his opening statement, director Christopher Wray told the committee that they have to date charged more than 300 persons [...]

During confirmation hearing on Monday, US Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland spoke out against White supremacy and vowed to keep politics out of his prosecution of the US Capitol attacks that occurred on January 6. Garland stated that he would “begin with people on the ground and work way up to those” involved with the [...]

Dominion Voting Systems, the voting machine company targeted by former president Donald Trump and his allies concerning stolen election claims, sued MyPillow CEO Mike Lindel in a $1.3 billion defamation action Monday. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, where Mike Lindell and MyPillow advertised and promoted the [...]

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted six new members of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing extremist group, for conspiring to prevent Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. The six members were arrested earlier this week and were included as co-defendants in a superseding indictment alleging that the individuals joined in a [...]

Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Chair of the US House Homeland Security Committee, filed a lawsuit against former president Donald Trump, Rudy Guiliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, alleging a conspiracy between the four to prevent Members of Congress from discharging their official duties. The lawsuit, which Thompson filed as a private citizen rather than [...]

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi on Monday proposed creating an independent, “9/11-type Commission” to investigate the January 6 attacks on the US Capitol building. Pelosi released the letter, titled “Dear Colleague: Security, Security, Security,” with recognition of President’s Day and the efforts of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to protect the [...]

Former President Trump’s lawyers wrapped up their defense in three hours on Friday, marking the fourth day of the impeachment trial in the Senate. The defense consisted of accusations that the House impeachment managers were taking the ex-president’s statements out of context, and that Trump’s exhortations to his followers to “fight” amounted to little more [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an affidavit on Thursday charging five individuals associated with the Proud Boys with conspiracy in connection to the insurrection in Washington, DC, on January 6. The affidavit establishes evidence that the five individuals conspired “to corruptly obstruct, influence, or impede an official proceeding before Congress, that is, the certification [...]

House impeachment managers concluded their case Thursday, advocating for the conviction of former president Donald Trump in his second Senate trial. “The world is watching us and wondering whether our constitutional republic is going to respond the way it should,” impeachment manager Joaquin Castro emphasized as the Senate jurors consider convicting Trump of incitement of [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) stated in a court filing Thursday that a leader of the Oath Keepers, a paramilitary group, believed she was responding to a call from former president Donald Trump to stop the certification of the election results on January 6. Prior to and after losing the presidential election, Trump sewed [...]