Legal side of jan 6 case articles
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Should Clarence Thomas recuse on Jan.6 cases?
Critics say the justice should not judge Trump’s election-subversion case, because his wife supported overturning the election, attended Trump’s Jan6 rally.
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Trump tries, fails to delay Jan. 6 civil cases pending against him
As this week has brought into sharp relief, Donald Trump’s principal legal problem is that he’s facing 88 criminal counts, including an ongoing criminal trial that got underway in New York City on Monday. It’s one of four pending cases against the former president across three jurisdictions. And while these are clearly the most serious of the Republican’s legal troubles — their outcomes could, at least in theory, lead to prison sentences — the presumptive GOP nominee is simultaneously dealing...
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Overreaching prosecution tactics face high court scrutiny in Jan. 6 cases
Because I’ve followed the progress of so many of the January 6 defendants’ trials, I was fully aware of the implications — and the government’s misapplication — of the much-discussed Section 1512(c)(2) felony that has been applied to more than 350 cases. But it wasn’t until I heard the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court grill Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar that I became genuinely frightened by the overreach of the Justice Department’s never-before-used application of this law. ...