By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The sentencing hearings for two former leaders of the right-wing Proud Boys who were convicted of seditious conspiracy and other crimes for the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters were abruptly postponed on Wednesday after the judge called out sick, a court spokesperson …
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By Sheila Dang (Reuters) – X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, said Tuesday it would now allow political advertising in the U.S. from candidates and political parties and expand its safety and elections team ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Before billionaire Elon Musk acquired the company in October, Twitter had banned …
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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – A barrage of state and federal criminal charges leveled against your main political rival should be good news for any democratic leader facing reelection, but Donald Trump’s legal woes present U.S. President Joe Biden with a unique challenge in the months ahead, political strategists say. Biden has so far remained …
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By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Attorney Sidney Powell, one of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case, has waived a formal arraignment and pleaded not guilty, a court filing on Tuesday showed. Other Trump allies, Trevian Kutti and Ray Smith, have also waived formal arraignment and entered …
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By Tom Hals (Reuters) – Efforts by Donald Trump allies to move Georgia’s criminal case charging the former U.S. president with trying to overturn an election to federal court is raising legal questions that could delay a trial, which may be a key part of their strategy. On Monday, Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign will not concentrate on the legal cases against Republican front-runner Donald Trump, who faces four sets of criminal charges, a top Biden campaign aide said on Sunday. Trump on Thursday was booked at an Atlanta jail on more than a dozen felony charges as part of …
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By Tom Hals (Reuters) – Efforts by Donald Trump allies to move Georgia’s criminal case charging the former U.S. president with trying to overturn an election to federal court is raising legal questions that could delay a trial, which may be a key part of their strategy. On Aug. 28, Trump’s former chief of staff, …
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By Tim Reid PHOENIX (Reuters) – Mark Clarcq is an independent voter in the presidential battleground state of Arizona. In 2016 he cast his ballot for Donald Trump, but as the former Republican president appeared at a Georgia jail on Thursday on criminal charges of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Clarcq said he …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mark Meadows, one of former President Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case, surrendered to Fulton County authorities and was booked on Thursday, according to records posted on the county sheriff’s website. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Caitlin Webber)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Trump lawyer John Eastman said on Tuesday that he was surrendering in Georgia on Tuesday after he was indicted for involvement in attempts to overturn the former president’s 2020 election loss. “I am here today to surrender to an indictment that should never have been brought. It represents a crossing of …
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