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As of Nov. 25, 2021, Donald Trump’s fight to block release of Jan. 6-related presidential records was in appellate limbo: a federal judge had rejected his bid on Nov. 9, and the D.C. Circuit had put the order on hold while it prepared for argument on Nov. 30.
As of Nov. 28, 2021, Donald Trump’s bid to block release of White House records tied to the Jan. 6 investigation was still pending. A D.C. Circuit panel had already issued a temporary administrative block on Nov. 11, and oral argument was set for Nov. 30. The …
A D.C. Circuit panel heard oral argument on Nov. 30, 2021, in Donald Trump’s bid to stop the release of presidential records held by the National Archives and sought by the House Jan. 6 committee. The case turned on whether a former president could still press…
On Dec. 3, 2021, the fallout from Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election was still running through Congress and the Justice Department. Officials and investigators were continuing to examine the pressure campaign around the election, including the…
The January 6 investigation was still tightening around Trump-world on December 5, 2021, and every new document, public statement, and legal move made the former president look more exposed. What had once been sold as a political squabble was increasingly beha…
As of Dec. 6, 2021, Jan. 6 prosecutions were still producing arrests and pleas, while the House select committee was already advancing its own inquiry.
The House Jan. 6 investigation was no longer just collecting records by early December 2021. The committee was moving into enforcement, with contempt proceedings against Mark Meadows and related fights over whether former Trump aides would comply with subpoena…
Mark Meadows sued the House Jan. 6 committee on Dec. 9, 2021 after stopping cooperation two days earlier, while the panel moved toward a contempt recommendation over his subpoena. The day also brought a separate appeals-court ruling in Donald Trump’s White Hou…
By Dec. 9, 2021, Steve Bannon’s refusal to cooperate with the House Jan. 6 committee remained a legal and political problem for Donald Trump’s allies, keeping attention on the subpoena fight and the contempt case that followed.
A federal appeals court rejected Donald Trump’s bid to block the release of White House records sought by the House committee investigating January 6, keeping his executive-privilege argument on life support and pushing the fight toward the Supreme Court. The …
Former President Donald Trump lost a key appeal on Dec. 9, 2021, in his bid to block release of White House records sought by the House Jan. 6 committee. The White House had already declined to back his privilege claim, and Trump was expected to keep pressing …
The House voted on Dec. 14, 2021, to hold Mark Meadows in criminal contempt after the Jan. 6 committee recommended the move the day before and Meadows said he would not fully comply while asserting executive privilege.
The House Jan. 6 committee disclosed Meadows text messages during its Dec. 14 contempt action, including urgent pleas for Trump to tell people at the Capitol to leave and other messages tied to the broader election fight. The texts did not settle causation, bu…
A federal appeals court on Dec. 9, 2021, ruled that White House records sought by the Jan. 6 committee can be released after President Joe Biden declined to back Donald Trump’s executive-privilege claim. The panel said Trump had shown no basis to override Bide…
On Dec. 16, 2021, the House Jan. 6 select committee subpoenaed Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel the panel said was involved in pushing claims of election fraud and circulating strategies for challenging the 2020 result. The committee said Waldron had been …
The House select committee voted on Dec. 1, 2021, to recommend contempt charges against Jeffrey Clark, and the full House voted on Dec. 14. Dec. 16 was the date his postponed deposition was due — not another contempt milestone.
On Dec. 9, 2021, a federal appeals court rejected Donald Trump’s request to stop release of White House records tied to the House Jan. 6 inquiry. The ruling favored disclosure, but Trump then sought emergency review at the Supreme Court.
As the first anniversary of Jan. 6 neared, Trump kept leaning on the same stolen-election claims that fueled his response to the attack. A Dec. 9, 2021 appeals-court ruling also cleared the way for release of more Trump White House records tied to the riot, ad…
On Dec. 22, 2021, Trump again asserted executive privilege over records sought by the House Jan. 6 committee, keeping the dispute with the National Archives and the White House alive. The records were not turned over that day; the fight continued into January.
Pennsylvania Senate Republicans were still pursuing a partisan review of the 2020 vote on Dec. 22, 2021, even though state officials had certified the result in November 2020 and said fraud claims were unsupported.
On Dec. 23, 2021, Trump asked the Supreme Court to block the release of White House records sought by the House Jan. 6 committee, keeping the records dispute at the center of the investigation.
Jeffrey Clark circulated a Dec. 28, 2020 draft DOJ letter to Georgia officials that would have urged a special legislative session to review alleged election irregularities. The letter was never sent, and DOJ leadership rejected it.
The House Jan. 6 select committee closed out 2021 with two contempt fights already in the record: Jeffrey Clark in early December and Mark Meadows two weeks later. The date on the page was Dec. 30, but the substantive action was earlier in the month, as invest…
House Oversight Democrats released documents on June 15, 2021, showing Trump and allies pushed Justice Department officials in late December 2020 and early January 2021 to advance election-fraud claims the department had already rejected.
The first day of 2022 did not wipe away the 2020 election falsehoods. Those claims were already rejected by officials and courts, and later hearings and reporting would lay out how Trump and allies kept pushing them, including pressure on the Justice Departmen…
Donald Trump canceled a Jan. 6, 2022 press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 4, saying he would instead raise the same issues at a Jan. 15 rally in Arizona.
Capitol Police Officer Marcus J. Moore filed a civil suit on Jan. 4, 2022, accusing Donald Trump of helping incite the Jan. 6 attack and of causing him physical and emotional injuries, two days before the first anniversary of the riot.
Ahead of the first anniversary of the Capitol attack, Donald Trump again called jailed Jan. 6 defendants “hostages” and repeated his false claims about the 2020 election.
On Jan. 5, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee was still gathering evidence and documenting efforts by Donald Trump and allies to pressure the election certification process.
On the first anniversary of the Capitol attack, Donald Trump blasted President Biden’s speech, attacked the Jan. 6 investigation and repeated false claims about the 2020 election.
Biden and congressional Democrats marked the Jan. 6 anniversary by arguing that Trump’s false election claims helped drive the attack on the Capitol.
On the first anniversary of the Capitol attack, President Biden said Jan. 6, 2021, was an assault on democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. Donald Trump responded by calling Biden’s remarks a distraction and criticizing him instead.
By January 7, 2022, Trump’s refusal to admit what happened on January 6 had become a party-wide contamination event. His allies were still stuck defending the indefensible, and every fresh attempt to recast the riot as something other than a violent effort to …
On the first anniversary of the Capitol attack, Trump allies were still being pressed about false fraud claims, pressure on officials and their role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. The House select committee’s inquiry was ongoing, but its later su…
Donald Trump canceled a planned Jan. 6, 2022 press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 4 and said he would instead discuss the same topics at a later rally in Arizona while attacking the House committee investigating the Capitol attack and the news media.
On Jan. 11, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee’s records request was still in motion, but Trump had not yet filed his Jan. 18 executive-privilege letter and the Supreme Court had not yet acted.
By Jan. 12, 2022, the legal fight over Donald Trump’s post-election conduct was already moving beyond politics and into civil cases tied to Jan. 6. A federal judge would later rule on Feb. 18 that Trump was not immune from certain claims, underscoring how the …
The House moved to impeach Donald Trump over the Capitol attack, locking in a fresh constitutional humiliation just two weeks after his presidency ended. The political significance was bigger than the procedural step itself: Republicans were forced to choose b…
Even on a day dominated by impeachment, the broader January 6 fallout continued to harden into something uglier for Trump: a growing record of evidence, congressional inquiry, and institutional backlash. The problem was no longer whether he could shrug off the…
As the first anniversary of the Capitol attack passed on Jan. 6, 2022, Donald Trump again rejected blame and repeated false claims about the 2020 election. The remarks kept the focus on his refusal to accept the outcome while Congress and others marked the day…
The post-2020 election denial campaign kept creating intraparty conflict and left Republicans stuck with ongoing political and legal fallout.
On Jan. 18, 2022, Donald Trump asserted executive privilege over records sought by the House committee investigating Jan. 6, while the National Archives was already handling the resulting review and disclosure process.
On Jan. 18, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed Rudy Giuliani, Boris Epshteyn, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, while the National Archives was also fighting over Trump’s presidential records. The aftermath of Trump’s election lies was still producing ne…
The Supreme Court denied Donald Trump’s emergency application to stop release of White House records tied to the Jan. 6 investigation, leaving the lower-court ruling in place and allowing the documents to move ahead.
A Comey indictment, a Trump-bucks fraud case, and a February tariff proclamation all show the same thing: Trump can push hard, but the legal machinery around him still runs on dates, charges, and statutory limits.
On the first anniversary of the Capitol attack, President Joe Biden denounced the violence and the election lies behind it, while Donald Trump rejected the remarks and called them a distraction.
The Jan. 6 investigation was still widening on Jan. 20, 2022, as House investigators sought records to test whether false claims about the 2020 election were used in fundraising and mobilization. The core question was not just who repeated the fraud lie, but h…
The National Archives turned over more than 700 pages of Trump White House material to the House Jan. 6 committee after the Supreme Court declined to block the release. The documents included diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts, handwritten notes, and other r…
The Supreme Court’s decision letting the Jan. 6 committee get Trump White House records kept the former president on the defensive and underscored how little leverage he had left over the paper trail from his last weeks in office.
After the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s emergency bid on Jan. 19, 2022, the National Archives began turning over records to the House Jan. 6 committee on Jan. 20. The executive-privilege fight continued, but the immediate effort to block disclosure was over.
As of Jan. 24, 2022, the January 6 investigation was still accumulating evidence. The Justice Department was treating the case as a sprawling criminal inquiry, and the House committee was still gathering testimony and records tied to the attack and the effort …
The Justice Department filed a complaint in federal court on May 13, 2026, targeting D.C. disciplinary authorities over the Jeffrey Clark matter and arguing they relied on confidential executive-branch deliberations.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack had issued subpoenas on Jan. 18, 2022, to Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, and Boris Epshteyn over their roles in promoting unsupported election claims and efforts tied to delaying or disrupting cer…
Atlanta prosecutors were still advancing their investigation into Trump’s effort to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results, with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis using a special grand jury to keep the pressure on. The existence of the probe itself…
On January 28, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee said it had subpoenaed 14 people tied to the fake-elector effort in seven states won by Joe Biden. The panel said it wanted information on how the scheme worked and whether it was aimed at delaying or blocking ce…
The broader January 6 records battle kept cutting against Trump’s effort to seal off White House documents from investigators. By this point, the Supreme Court had already rejected his bid to block the National Archives from turning over records, and the commi…
Trump told Congress hostilities with Iran had terminated, but his public rationale for the war has stayed shifting and incomplete.
On the first anniversary of Jan. 6, Trump was still trapped by the attack he would not disown, and the investigations around it were still expanding.
By Feb. 4, 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records dispute was already turning into a public problem: the National Archives had recovered 15 boxes of presidential materials from Donald Trump’s Florida club, and questions were starting to build about how the records got t…
On February 1, 2022, the White House said it would not uphold Donald Trump’s executive-privilege claim over records related to Jan. 6, setting up a 30-day path to release unless a court stepped in.
By Feb. 6, 2022, the Jan. 6 inquiry was increasingly centered on presidential records and executive-privilege disputes as the committee pressed for materials from the Trump White House.
Trump’s political committees started 2022 with roughly $122 million on hand, and the fundraising pitch remained tightly bound to election-fraud claims that had already drawn scrutiny. The money was real; so was the strategy of selling outrage back to supporter…
The day’s broader fallout was that Trump’s allies remained trapped between defending him and pretending the country had moved on. That was getting harder by the day as legal scrutiny increased and the political usefulness of the stolen-election story started c…
The Justice Department’s May 8 lawsuit against New Mexico and Albuquerque turns a state-law and city-ordinance fight into a fresh federalism brawl over immigration enforcement, detention, and local control.
A federal appeals court on May 6 and a Washington judge on May 7 issued separate rulings that narrowed the government’s position in two immigration cases, each on the facts and orders before the court.
On Feb. 16, 2022, the National Archives told Donald Trump it would turn over additional January 6-related presidential records to the House committee, after Biden approved release and Trump’s earlier Supreme Court bid had already failed.
Trump’s White House is still leaning on emergency-style authorities for trade and Cuba policy, but the chronology matters: the metal tariff move dates to April 2, the semiconductor proclamation to January 14, and the Cuba sanctions order to May 1.
The National Archives told Congress it recovered 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago and said some of the records inside were marked as classified national security information. The agency said it was also in contact with the Justice Department.
A federal judge ruled on Feb. 18, 2022, that Donald Trump is not entitled to absolute immunity from several civil claims tied to the Jan. 6 attack, allowing the case to move ahead in part. The decision did not settle the merits, but it kept key allegations ali…
The Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump’s last-minute effort to block the release of presidential records to the House Jan. 6 committee, denying him another chance to keep the evidence bottled up. The practical effect was another public loss for a former presi…
The White House spent May 8 in the same broad posture it has used for months: expanding tariffs, sanctions, and other unilateral tools while insisting it is acting in the national interest. But the more Trump leans on emergency powers, the more he invites cour…
The White House issued a May 7 proclamation designating May 8, 2026, as a day in celebration of Victory Day for World War II. It is an official presidential action, but it does not create a federal holiday under 5 U.S.C. § 6103.
The Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit on May 6, 2026, targeting Colorado’s large-capacity magazine law and naming the state and the Colorado Department of Public Safety as defendants.
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its second day, Republican leaders largely condemned Vladimir Putin while Trump’s comments and broader influence kept pulling some conservatives back toward the former president’s grievances and instincts.
As fighting continued on Feb. 25, 2022, Trump kept trying to fold Russia’s attack on Ukraine into a Biden-era political argument. The problem was simple: Russia had already launched the invasion the day before.
Trump’s remarks praising Vladimir Putin as “smart” and “genius” kept drawing backlash through Feb. 28, 2022, after he made the comments on Feb. 22 and then repeated similar language at CPAC on Feb. 26. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, …
The House Jan. 6 committee said in a court filing that it had a good-faith basis to believe the evidence it gathered could support a criminal conspiracy theory involving Donald Trump and associates tied to his effort to overturn the 2020 election. The filing w…
Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro did not show up for a scheduled deposition before the January 6 committee on March 2, 2022. Navarro had been subpoenaed over his role in the post-election pressure campaign, and skipping the appearance only deepened the…
A March 2, 2022 court filing by the House Jan. 6 committee said it had a good-faith basis to believe Trump and allies may have engaged in a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, and cited evidence that Trump had been repeatedly told the fraud clai…
Donald Trump’s praise of Vladimir Putin on Feb. 26, 2022 kept forcing Republican leaders to answer for it as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine worsened. By March 4, the focus had shifted to Pence’s public effort to draw a line inside the party against Putin apologi…
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its second week on March 5, 2022, Republicans were trying to condemn Vladimir Putin while managing the political baggage of Donald Trump’s repeated praise for him. Mike Pence’s warning that there was no room in the party…
At CPAC in Orlando, which ended Feb. 27, 2022, Donald Trump remained the event’s main attraction even as the gathering was supposed to showcase a broader conservative bench. The result was less a display of party renewal than a reminder of how dependent Republ…
A federal jury in Washington convicted Guy Reffitt on March 8, 2022, in the first Jan. 6 Capitol-breach trial to reach a verdict. The jury found him guilty of two civil disorder counts, obstruction of an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restric…
By March 11, 2022, the House Jan. 6 select committee was still expanding its inquiry into the effort to overturn the 2020 election, with subpoenas, testimony and public records adding to the case it had opened months earlier.
Trump’s yearslong Russia problem collided with the Ukraine war, forcing him and his allies to talk around old praise, old skepticism, and a fast-changing conflict that made easy slogans harder to sell.
Trump’s February 26 appearance at CPAC in Orlando turned into another familiar performance: election denial, self-congratulation, and a conservative crowd still looking to him for cues. The event underscored how much of the movement remains organized around Tr…
Trump’s May 1 Cuba sanctions order expands sanctions exposure under the January 29, 2026 emergency declaration. It targets specified persons and certain foreign financial institutions tied to blocked persons, rather than creating a new emergency or sweeping in…
CREW and the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed suit on April 24, 2026, after an April 1 DOJ legal opinion said the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional and an April 2 White House memo followed with revised records guidance.
The White House released separate actions on March 20, March 31 and May 1, 2026, and the through line is less a single rollout than a familiar habit: announce first, explain later.
March 14 brought more evidence that Trump-aligned politics treats even a Supreme Court confirmation as a chance to manufacture outrage. The attack pattern was familiar: take a highly qualified nominee, strip the process down to culture-war theater, and hope th…
Schiff and Schumer want the White House to promise it will keep following the Presidential Records Act after an April 1 Justice Department opinion called the law unconstitutional and an April 2 memo followed.
Fresh reporting on March 19 showed that Trump’s style of politics was not just a personality quirk; it had become a governing language that Republicans kept borrowing, laundering, and normalizing. The result was another reminder that the former president’s mos…
The House Jan. 6 committee was probing whether Trump, the RNC and allied fundraising groups used false election claims to solicit donations and route money elsewhere. The reporting was from March 8, 2022; there was no new March 19 breakthrough.
The Supreme Court said IEEPA does not authorize Trump’s sweeping tariffs, and the White House responded the same day with a separate section 122 surcharge that left other tariff authorities in place.
The White House told Congress that hostilities with Iran had “terminated” right as the War Powers deadline hit, a move that looks designed to avoid a vote on continued military action. The administration says the ceasefire is enough; critics say it is a legal …
By March 23, 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records dispute was still an unfinished records-and-oversight fight. The National Archives had already recovered 15 boxes in January, Congress had raised questions in February, and the Archives had said some materials were mar…
By March 23, 2022, many of Trump’s election fraud claims had been rejected by courts, election officials, and reviews, but the false narrative still shaped Republican politics and kept pulling candidates back toward 2020 instead of 2022.
Texts made public on March 24, 2022 showed Ginni Thomas pressing Mark Meadows to continue efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory, adding new detail to the post-election pressure campaign.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used an April 30 appearance to cast tariffs as part of a national-security and supply-chain strategy, while House Democrats on April 22 said the administration’s emergency-powers theory for sweeping tariffs has already been rej…
House Judiciary Democrats filed two resolutions on April 16 asking Congress to press President Trump on the Constitution’s foreign and domestic emoluments clauses, citing what they describe as presidential profiteering and conflicts tied to his business intere…
The Justice Department’s inspector general opened an audit of DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act and said it will examine the department’s identification, redaction, release, and post-release complaint processes. House Oversight also pres…
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel said on April 1, 2026, that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. The White House Counsel’s Office then issued internal guidance on April 2, while the law remained on the books and the dispute stayed…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used an April 30 address to describe the administration’s trade and industrial strategy as an “economic shield,” while House Democrats argued on April 22 that the president’s use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs i…
By March 27, 2022, the Jan. 6 investigation was still moving in Congress and at the Justice Department, keeping Donald Trump and his allies under an unresolved political and legal cloud.
On March 28, 2022, the January 6 select committee voted to recommend criminal contempt citations for Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino, turning its investigation into a more forceful bid to compel cooperation. The full House acted on that recommendation later, on …
A March 28, 2022 ruling from Judge David Carter ordered most of John Eastman’s disputed emails turned over to the House Jan. 6 committee. The decision did not charge or convict anyone, but it did apply the crime-fraud exception in a civil privilege fight after…
March 29 brought more attention to the gap in Trump’s White House phone logs during the hours of the January 6 attack. The missing record has become a credibility problem all by itself, because the absence of a call log looks a lot like the kind of hole that i…
NOAA’s April 29 action approved conservation equivalency and the recreational measures-setting framework for black sea bass, but Maryland and Delaware had already posted spring fishing rules before the federal bulletin landed.
Trump’s April 3 college-sports order pushes agencies to act and urges the NCAA to move within the law, but it does not itself create a new national system or change existing rules overnight.
In early April 2022, the Jan. 6 investigation was still doing what it had done for months: forcing Trump allies to answer for the effort to overturn the 2020 election and keeping the former president’s political circle tied to the attack on the Capitol.
After Trump’s April 1 address on Iran, Rep. Gregory Meeks said the war was a choice, not a necessity, and criticized the administration for not publicly laying out a path to end it. The White House said its objectives were clear and unchanging.
The Justice Department said April 28 that a federal grand jury indicted former senior NIAID official David Morens on charges tied to an alleged scheme to evade FOIA requests and conceal COVID-era records.
Jared Kushner’s post-White House firm drew fresh scrutiny after reporting in April 2022 showed that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund had committed $2 billion to Affinity Partners in July 2021. House Democrats later opened a probe into the investment and t…
On April 13, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee was still collecting documents and testimony on the effort to block certification of the 2020 election. The panel had already subpoenaed Peter Navarro and, six days earlier, the House had voted to hold Navarro and …
Sen. Richard Blumenthal says the IRS has lost more than 27,000 employees over the past year, leaving the agency roughly 27% smaller and raising fresh questions about service and refund processing.
A federal appeals court ruled on April 24, 2026, that the administration’s southern-border asylum restrictions were unlawful, keeping the policy blocked while further review is possible.
The Justice Department said on April 24 that it was readopting its prior lethal-injection protocol, expanding execution methods to include the firing squad, and streamlining internal processes in death-penalty cases.
A federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down asylum access at the southern border, holding that immigration law does not let the president override the statutory right to seek asylum or replace the law’s removal procedures.
Trump’s April 3 order tells agencies to assess whether violations of college-sports rules are serious enough to affect a school’s present responsibility for grants and contracts. The operative sections take effect on August 1, 2026, giving agencies time to bui…
The Justice Department inspector general opened an audit on April 23, 2026, into DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, including how records were identified, redacted, withheld and handled after release.
The coalition challenge to Trump’s March 31 election order remains a live legal threat, with states arguing that the White House is trying to federalize election administration and jam new voting rules through presidential fiat.
The Eleventh Circuit’s April 21 opinion was a procurement ruling, not a ballroom case, and a separate concurrence said broad deference cases from very different settings do not automatically control here. The judge’s point was statutory: context matters, and t…
Minnesota and a multistate coalition filed suit on April 3, 2026, to block Executive Order 14399, signed March 31, 2026, arguing that the White House overstepped state control of election administration.
The D.C. Circuit ruled that the proclamation-based removal scheme could not be used to sidestep INA removal procedures or strip affected people of asylum, withholding, and CAT-related protections. The court affirmed summary judgment for the plaintiffs and affi…
A federal judge dismissed the Democratic committees’ challenge to Trump’s February 2025 order on independent agencies, ruling there was no live controversy for the court to decide. The case over the FEC was filed on February 28, 2025 and dismissed on June 3, 2…
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on June 4, 2025, that challenged President Donald Trump’s executive order as it applied to the Federal Election Commission. The Democratic National Committee, the DSCC and the DCCC had argued that the order could undercut th…
The Justice Department sued Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont, Attorney General William Tong, New Haven and Mayor Justin Elicker on April 13, 2026, targeting the state’s Trust Act and New Haven’s Welcoming City policy. Connecticut officials and Sen. Richard Blument…
The District of Columbia, the Trump Organization and the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee reached a $750,000 settlement over 2017 inauguration spending tied to the Trump International Hotel. The court entered the settlement order on May 6, 2022, and the m…
House Oversight Democrats on May 6, 2022, asked CGI Merchant Group for more information about the investors behind its planned $375 million purchase of the Trump hotel lease in Washington, saying the disclosure gap left open questions about who would benefit f…
A federal judge on April 16 kept above-ground construction of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom blocked, while allowing underground security work to continue. The ruling followed an appeals court order that said the judge needed to spell out more c…
The American Historical Association and American Oversight sued after the Justice Department’s legal office said the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. The case challenges that opinion and seeks to stop it from being used as a governing position.
By May 12, 2022, Donald Trump was still a major force in Republican primaries, but his backing was not a magic wand. The spring contests in Ohio and Indiana showed that his endorsement could help shape crowded races, yet it also had clear limits when candidate…
Melania Trump said in an April 9 White House statement that her name had never appeared in court documents, depositions, victim statements or FBI interviews tied to Jeffrey Epstein. The statement is a narrow denial, not a broader account of the case.
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued an April 1, 2026 memorandum saying the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional. It is an executive-branch legal position, not a court ruling, and the statute remains in force unless a court or Congre…
The White House released its 2026 Economic Report of the President with chapter headings that read like a Trump agenda wish list: DEI, ESG, energy dominance, and private equity in retirement plans. It is a glossy attempt to turn ideology into economics, and it…
Trump’s Pennsylvania endorsements still moved votes, but primary night also showed the cost: one race was decisive, the other was still too close to call.
The leak of the Supreme Court draft on abortion had already scrambled Republican messaging by May 17, and Trumpworld was part of the confusion. Trump had spent years helping install the judges and rhetoric that made this moment possible, but the party was now …
On May 17, 2022, Trump-backed Doug Mastriano won Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial primary and Ted Budd won the North Carolina GOP Senate primary. The results showed that Trump’s endorsement still moved votes, while candidates tied to his false 2020 elec…
Trump issued a presidential determination on April 20 giving Air Force jet fighter training operations in Idaho, Oregon and Nevada a one-year exemption from specified water-pollution requirements, while leaving sections 1316 and 1317 intact.
The White House is selling its college-sports order as a rescue plan, but the text is narrow and depends on agencies, rules, and outside actors to do the real work.
The operative tariff action was the Feb. 20 Section 122 proclamation that imposed a temporary 10% import surcharge effective Feb. 24. A White House release in April restated the policy’s politics, but it did not amend the legal basis or the terms.
In Idaho, Trump’s preferred faction lost a key test when incumbent Gov. Brad Little survived a challenge from a Trump-endorsed hard-liner. It was not a total blowout, but it was another sign that even when Trump intervenes, Republican voters do not always hand…
Peter Navarro was still resisting a House Jan. 6 committee subpoena on May 22, 2022, after the House had already voted to refer him for contempt of Congress. He had not yet been indicted at that point.
Trump’s political money machine is heading into an FEC disclosure deadline that should reveal whether the operation is still swimming in cash, leaning on transfers, or quietly burning through its runway.
Trump signed H.R. 8322 on April 18, extending Title VII FISA authorities through April 30 and leaving Congress with another deadline to settle the fight.
California filed suit on Feb. 18, 2026, accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully terminating $1.2 billion for ARCHES and $4 million for RECI. The complaint says ARCHES was terminated months earlier, on Oct. 1, 2025, and argues the cancellations violated…
Trump’s handpicked candidates had a mixed night in Georgia, where his endorsement could still move some Republican voters but could not rescue every favorite or punish every enemy. The results underscored the gap between Trump’s media dominance and his actual …
Trump’s lawyers asked a judge to pause his $10 billion IRS lawsuit for 90 days while the parties continue settlement talks. Critics say the case raises serious ethics questions because the president is suing agencies inside the government he runs, but no settl…
Trump’s lawyers asked a judge on April 17 to pause his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury for 90 days while settlement talks continue. The case centers on claims that tax information belonging to Trump, two of his sons and the Trump Organization …
Trump’s lawyers asked a federal judge on April 17 for a 90-day pause in the IRS lawsuit while settlement talks continue. The request does not end the case; it simply asks the court to hold proceedings while the parties see whether they can reach an agreement.
With the first public hearing set for June 9, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee was preparing to present previously unseen material and witness testimony in a format designed for a broad public audience. The hearings were expected to sharpen the political press…
A federal judge’s March 31 preliminary injunction halted above-ground construction on the White House ballroom project, while allowing safety- and security-related work to continue. The order was stayed for 14 days, and the fight over the project is still movi…
The April 15 campaign-finance deadline is still producing noise, but there is no clearly new Trump-specific filing catastrophe in the public record yet. The real story for April 16 is that the compliance pressure remains, and so does the possibility of penalti…
Federal prosecutors escalated the Jan. 6 case by charging Proud Boys leaders with seditious conspiracy, a major step that underlined how seriously the government was treating the Capitol attack and how closely Trump-aligned extremism remained in the dock.
On June 8, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee was scheduled to hold its first public hearing the next night at 8 p.m. Eastern, with unseen material, witness testimony, and an initial summary of its findings.
Trump’s post-election fundraising was under scrutiny for using election-defense claims and for questions about where the money went.
The April 15 filing deadline passed yesterday, but the compliance consequences are still very much alive, with late reports still capable of drawing fines and public embarrassment for committees that missed the cutoff.
The House Jan. 6 committee held its first public hearing on June 9, 2022, beginning a public record of the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
After the first prime-time Jan. 6 hearing on June 9, 2022, Donald Trump spent June 9 and June 10 posting on Truth Social to attack the committee and repeat election-fraud claims. The result was less a rebuttal than a reminder of the record the hearing was tryi…
The committee’s opening hearing kept landing punches because it reminded Americans that Trump’s response to the Capitol attack was slow, self-protective, and at odds with the heroic image he sells. The more the testimony circulated, the harder it became for Tr…
Donald Trump posted repeatedly on Truth Social during and after the first prime-time Jan. 6 committee hearing on June 9 and 10, 2022, attacking the investigation and repeating election-fraud claims. Around the same time, some users said the platform restricted…
Trump’s comments about possible pardons for Jan. 6 defendants prompted fresh backlash as lawmakers continued their hearings on the attack. Critics say the remarks signal sympathy for people charged in the riot and dismiss accountability for the violence at the…
After the House Jan. 6 committee’s June 13 hearing featured Bill Barr testimony that Trump’s fraud claims lacked evidence, Trump responded the next day with a long statement that recycled the same debunked election theories. The hearing was meant to show that …
April 15 filing day is past, but the real story is now whether campaign committees and presidential accounts actually filed on time, filed accurately, and avoided late-report penalties. The FEC’s rules make clear that tardy reports can trigger civil fines, whi…
The House Jan. 6 committee said Tuesday’s planned Wednesday hearing would not go ahead as scheduled, but Thursday’s session stayed on the books. The panel said it needed more time to finish its video presentation.
The House Jan. 6 committee’s June 15 session kept piling pressure on Donald Trump by highlighting how his own advisers had told him the election-fraud claims were false. The day’s fallout made the former president look less like a misunderstood victim and more…
Trump had already taken a hit in Georgia’s May 24 primaries, and the June 21 runoff gave him another chance to show his backing still moved Republican voters. The question in Washington and Atlanta was not whether Trump remained loud, but whether his endorseme…
The January 6 committee’s June 16 hearing put Trump’s pressure campaign on Mike Pence front and center, with testimony and documentary evidence showing how far the former president pushed to get the vice president to block or delay the electoral count. The day…
Donald Trump spoke in Nashville on June 17, 2022, one day after a Jan. 6 committee hearing focused on pressure on Mike Pence. In front of a friendly crowd, he repeated his election-fraud claims and returned to the same fight over whether Pence should have reje…
The June 16 hearing was another reminder that Trump’s election lies are not just old rhetoric but a documented campaign with real-world consequences. The more the committee lays out witness testimony and internal evidence, the harder it becomes for Trump to se…
The House Jan. 6 committee’s June 2022 hearings kept building a public record around pressure on state officials and the fake-elector plan tied to Donald Trump’s 2020 election challenge. The stronger case was not a single revelation, but the committee’s wideni…
Donald Trump did not issue a public Juneteenth statement on June 19, 2022, on the channels reviewed for this story. The omission came after his campaign’s 2020 Tulsa rally plans drew criticism for landing on Juneteenth before the event was moved to June 20.
The House Jan. 6 committee spent June 21 laying out how Trump and his allies pressed Georgia and other states to undo the 2020 election. The hearing sharpened the record around the phone calls, threats, and false fraud claims that sat at the center of the post…
The House Jan. 6 committee’s June 21 hearing focused on Trump’s pressure campaign against state election officials. The next day, Chairman Bennie Thompson said the panel would keep public hearings going into July.
On June 21, 2022, the Jan. 6 committee heard testimony about threats and harassment directed at election workers as it continued its public hearings into Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the election.
The House Jan. 6 committee’s June 23 hearing put former top Justice Department officials under oath and detailed Donald Trump’s push to get the department to bless false election-fraud claims, including his effort to replace acting Attorney General Jeffrey Ros…
The House Jan. 6 committee’s June 23, 2022 hearing laid out evidence that Donald Trump pressed Justice Department officials to back his false election-fraud claims and tried to elevate Jeffrey Clark into a position that could help carry them out from inside th…
By late June 2022, the January 6 committee was still building its case with hearings on June 21, June 23, and the upcoming June 28 session, adding more testimony about pressure on officials and efforts to keep Donald Trump in power.
The committee’s June 23 hearing and the Sunday follow-up kept the focus on testimony that Trump pushed state officials, the Justice Department and his advisers toward overturning the 2020 result. The record being built is less a single allegation than a sequen…
John Eastman said in a June 27 filing that federal agents seized his phone on June 22 in New Mexico. The same day, the House Jan. 6 committee announced a surprise June 28 hearing to present newly obtained evidence and hear witnesses.
The House Jan. 6 committee said on June 27, 2022, that it would add a June 28 hearing at 1 p.m. ET to present recently obtained evidence and hear witness testimony.
Cassidy Hutchinson’s June 28 testimony added new details to the Jan. 6 record, including her account that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol and allegedly reacted angrily when told he could not be driven there. The hearing also renewed scrutiny of Trump’s allie…
Cassidy Hutchinson’s surprise appearance before the Jan. 6 committee became the day’s dominant Trump-world screwup. Her account added a pile of damaging new detail about Trump’s behavior on January 6, including claims that he knew armed supporters were headed …
A June 21, 2022 House Jan. 6 hearing and related reporting kept the alternate-elector effort in view, highlighting an investigation that was still developing and not yet resolved by any court.
Peter Navarro’s June 2022 indictment on contempt-of-Congress charges showed that refusing a lawful subpoena could move from political theater to a federal case that was still pending as of June 30, 2022.
The House Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed former White House counsel Pat Cipollone on June 29, 2022, after Cassidy Hutchinson testified that he had warned against taking Donald Trump to the Capitol and raised legal concerns about the day’s events.
Reporting on June 30, 2022 said Cassidy Hutchinson told the House Jan. 6 committee that someone had contacted her in an apparent effort to influence her testimony. The episode added to concerns about possible witness pressure, but it was not a verified finding…
Liz Cheney used a June 29 speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to warn that Republicans cannot be loyal to both Donald Trump and the Constitution. The Wyoming Republican cast Trump as a domestic threat and tied that warning to her case against the …
The House Jan. 6 committee’s June 21 and June 23 hearings assembled sworn testimony and documents showing that Donald Trump was repeatedly told his fraud claims had no support, yet kept pressing the same case anyway.
The House Jan. 6 committee’s June 28, 2022 hearing presented testimony and documents indicating Donald Trump was urged to tell supporters to leave the Capitol and to publicly condemn the violence, but did not immediately do so.
By early July 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee had already lined up more hearings and continued building a public record focused on Donald Trump’s actions before and during the Capitol attack. The panel’s work relied on testimony, documents, and video rather t…
Quarterly federal committees faced an April 15 deadline, and the FEC warned that late electronic filings can be treated as nonfilings and subject to fines.
Jan. 6 was still shaping Trump’s political world on July 7, but the biggest public hearing revelations were still ahead later in the month. The record was building, the politics were getting uglier, and allies were already bracing for more damage as the commit…
On July 11, 2022, the House Jan. 6 committee was still building a public record around Trump’s post-election effort to overturn the result. The panel’s June 28 hearing had already put Cassidy Hutchinson on the record, and the next hearing was set for July 12.
On July 11, 2022, Trump allies were still leaning on denial and grievance while the Jan. 6 inquiry and the federal documents investigation kept developing around him.
The House Jan. 6 committee’s July 12 hearing added more testimony from an ex-Oath Keepers spokesman and a Jan. 6 defendant to its existing record on the effort to overturn the 2020 election. The session did not introduce a brand-new theory; it reinforced the p…
Reporting on July 12-14, 2022, said Trump tried to contact a White House support staffer who was speaking with the Jan. 6 committee. The committee said it referred the matter to the Justice Department and did not say it had established witness tampering.
The July 12 hearing made the gap between Trump’s rhetoric and the committee’s record harder to ignore, and the next day his defenses looked thinner still.
The April 15 filing deadline is over, but the compliance headache is not. The FEC reminded quarterly filers that their reports were due April 15 and that late reports can still trigger fines, which keeps pressure on presidential committees, candidate committee…
The House Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed the Secret Service on July 15, 2022, after learning that some Jan. 5-6, 2021 text messages may have been lost during a device migration. The agency said the loss was not the result of intentional deletion.