Tag Archives: election-interference

President Donald Trump’s administration is investigating former Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led two criminal investigations into Trump during the Biden administration, on the supposed basis that Smith’s actions may have been politically motivated. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is reportedly investigating Smith over a possible violation of the …

President Joe Biden’s administration has imposed new sanctions on Russian and Iranian entities, accusing them of attempting to interfere with the 2024 U.S. election, it announced Tuesday. The Treasury Department alleges that the organizations attempted to spread disinformation related to the presidential race. In a statement, the Treasury Department said …

Donald Trump got away with it. That’s the result, anyway. Monday’s Supreme Court decision is a little more detailed: The court, by a 6-3 vote along partisan lines, granted the once-and-maybe-future president immunity from prosecution over most of his actions to overthrow the government in 2020 and 2021. But that’s …

The Supreme Court has ruled that presidents are entitled to immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office. The landmark decision delivers a critical blow to the Justice Department’s ongoing election interference case against former president Donald Trump, and virtually guarantees the case will not go to trial …

Donald Trump spent years being bitterly mad at a Supreme Court majority and a conservative legal movement that did not work hard enough to help him steal the 2020 presidential election. But ahead of the 2024 election, the court seems to be making up for his troubles. The high court …

Wisconsin on Tuesday became one of several critical swing states to have charged a group of Donald Trump’s allies with participating in the “fake elector” scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Wisconsin’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges against Kenneth Chesebro, Jim Troupis, and …

As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear oral arguments in Donald Trump’s presidential immunity case, his allies are working to tamp down any concerns the justices might have about one of the more absurd and disconcerting arguments offered by any Trump lawyer ever: that a president would have to …

The Joe Biden presidential campaign is positioning the 2024 election as a referendum on democracy. But a new poll suggests that defending America’s constitutional system of checks and balances is no longer an electoral slam dunk. A startling 39 percent of Americans, including 74 percent of Republicans, think it’s a …

In the middle of last year, several of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, including some of his 2024 campaign’s senior staff, started noticing an ominous trend in independent polling and in internal Republican survey data: A significant share of swing voters in key states — even some Republicans — say they …

This month, Donald Trump’s lawyers have argued in a federal appeals court that he, as a former American president, is “absolutely” immune from criminal prosecution, possibly even if he were to order the assassination of his political enemies. But the arguments that Trump’s lawyers are currently litigating in public are …