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Academicians, lawyers, elections officials, pundits and politicians are presently ensconced in the problem of Donald Trump’s continuing constitutional qualification for presidential office. Although he plainly meets Article II of the United States Constitution’s three qualifications – at least 35 years old, natural born citizen, sufficient residence in the United States – Trump arguably runs afoul [...]

A federal judge in Washington DC rejected former US President Donald Trump’s request that she recuse herself from his pending criminal case on Wednesday. Trump sought to remove US District Judge Tanya Chutkan from the case earlier this month based on comments she previously made during the sentencing of several convicted rioters from the January [...]

Nine California lawmakers sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta requesting that his office seek an official court opinion as to whether Donald Trump’s current 2024 presidential run is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, which prevents those who have committed “insurrection or rebellion” against the US while in office from seeking office again. [...]

Former Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro was found guilty on Thursday of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress. This conviction, a result of Navarro’s refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, makes him the second senior official from the Trump administration, after former White [...]

A group of Colorado voters filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against former US President Donald Trump, seeking to prevent him from appearing on the state ballot in the 2024 primary and general elections. The 100-page complaint alleges that the former president led a “broad-based effort to pressure, coerce, and intimidate state and local officials to [...]

A Washington DC judge sentenced on Friday multiple members of a far-right nationalist group known as the Proud Boys for their role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Former leader of the Proud Boys Ethan Nordean received an 18 year prison sentence, and member Dominic Pezzola received a ten year prison sentence. Nordean’s sentence [...]

Prior to Donald Trump, no US president — current or former — had ever been indicted. That all changed on April 4 when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that a New York grand jury had indicted Trump on 34 criminal counts. Since then, he has been the subject of three additional criminal indictments. He [...]

A Manhattan judge declined to recuse himself from former President Donald Trump’s business records case in New York on Monday following a request by Trump’s legal team. In his decision, Judge Juan Merchan said “this Court has examined its conscience and is certain in its ability to be fair and impartial.” Trump cited three reasons [...]

A group of former Republican legal officials filed an amicus brief Monday in support of a January 2024 trial date in former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference criminal case. The amicus brief cites the Speedy Trial Act and Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution to justify the need for a speedy resolution. The brief [...]

US District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed former President Donald Trump’s counter-defamation suit against author E. Jean Carroll on Monday. Carroll has accused Trump of sexual assault, with a jury finding that Trump did sexually assault Carroll and defamed Carroll by accusing her of lying. Trump claimed that Carroll’s statements on CNN after the verdict [...]