A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on October 31, 2023.
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Halloween 2023 was not a day Trump-world looked disciplined or in control. It looked like a political operation forced to fight court battles on multiple fronts, with each one reminding voters why the campaign kept turning into a legal-defense project.
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Trump filed a Michigan court challenge seeking to stop Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson from leaving him off the state’s 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot while a separate 14th Amendment fight moved through the courts.
The ACLU filed an amicus brief on Oct. 25, 2023, arguing that the gag order in Donald Trump’s federal election case is too vague and too broad. A D.C. Circuit order on Nov. 3 later put the district court’s Oct. 17 speech restrictions on hold pending appeal.