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The story date is Nov. 25, 2021, but the Supreme Court action that mattered came on Feb. 22, 2021. That order left in place the lower-court rulings letting New York prosecutors pursue Trump’s financial records, and there was no new Supreme Court ruling on Nov.…
The legal fight over White House records tied to the Jan. 6 investigation kept stretching through November 2021. The key court action came on Nov. 11, when an appeals court temporarily blocked release of the records, and Trump followed with another executive-p…
Fresh reporting on November 27 reinforced that Trump’s business empire had spent years telling different versions of its own finances to different audiences, a pattern that was becoming harder to explain as a one-off mistake.
By Nov. 28, 2021, the New York attorney general’s probe into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization was still active and still moving through court fights over records and testimony. The legal threat was real, but the lawsuit Trump would later file against th…
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…
As of Dec. 3, 2021, the Trump Organization remained under a July criminal indictment in New York, while a separate civil investigation by Attorney General Letitia James was still active. The criminal case involved alleged tax-related perks and payroll practice…
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…
On December 9, 2021, reporting said New York Attorney General Letitia James was seeking Donald Trump’s deposition in her civil fraud investigation. Trump later filed suit in December 2021 to try to stop the inquiry.
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.
On December 10, 2021, the Trump Organization was already tangled in New York investigations over its finances, payroll practices, and document production. The public record then centered on prosecutors’ allegations and court fights over subpoenas, not on any l…
Donald Trump and the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit on Dec. 20, 2021, seeking to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James’s investigation into the company’s financial practices and asset valuations.
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.
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.
By Dec. 16, 2021, the Trump Organization was already deep into a New York civil investigation, with related criminal proceedings in the background and a fresh fight over whether Donald Trump and his company would keep resisting testimony and document demands.
A Sept. 24, 2021 court order in New York required the Trump Organization to comply with subpoenas in the attorney general’s civil probe, keeping pressure on the company’s records and finances as related litigation continued.
On Dec. 19, 2021, Donald Trump was still facing the New York attorney general’s investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances and was preparing to file a federal lawsuit the following day to try to stop it. The dispute centered on allegations under revi…
Donald Trump and the Trump Organization filed a federal lawsuit on December 20, 2021, seeking to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil investigation into the company’s financial practices.
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.
On Christmas Eve 2021, Donald Trump was still trying to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil investigation into his business practices. He had filed suit four days earlier, while James’s office said the probe was continuing and had not reached …
Donald Trump and the Trump Organization filed suit on Dec. 20, 2021, asking a federal court to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil investigation into the company’s business practices. James called the lawsuit an attempted collateral attack and…
New York Attorney General Letitia James on January 18, 2022 asked a judge to compel Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. to give sworn testimony in the office’s civil investigation into the Trump Organization. The filing said investigators had uncov…
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…
A year-end look at the Trump Organization’s legal and ethics problems: New York’s attorney general was still pressing subpoena compliance, and an outside watchdog had asked federal suspension officials to act.
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.
A January 3 court filing made public that New York’s attorney general had recently subpoenaed Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. for testimony and documents in the Trump Organization investigation.
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, 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…
On January 18, 2022, New York’s attorney general asked a state court to compel Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump to comply with subpoenas in the civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances. The filing sought sworn testimony from t…
On Jan. 18, 2022, Donald Trump sent the National Archives another letter asserting executive privilege over records sought by the House Jan. 6 committee, continuing a dispute that had already been underway for months.
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.
Federal prosecutors say Goran Spiridonov and Kristina Janeva sold fake Trump-branded currency while falsely tying the products to Donald Trump and his organizations. The case, unsealed May 13, shows how the Trump name still functions as bait for fraud.
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.
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…
By January 20, 2022, the public record still did not show a formal Mar-a-Lago records escalation. The documented official access steps came later in spring 2022, when National Archives communications began on April 1 and the White House Counsel’s Office reques…
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.
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 Trump Organization’s criminal tax case was still hanging over the former president like a wet blanket, with the company’s conviction fresh and the reputational damage still widening. Even before the later civil fraud cases, the business was already dealing…
From tariffs to the broader legal and political grind, the administration is leaning hard on the language of decisive action even as courts and institutions keep forcing it into retreat, revision, or delay. The consequence is a White House that sounds confiden…
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.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan say two North Macedonia nationals were charged in an alleged scheme that falsely claimed “Trump Bucks” were tied to Donald Trump, his family, the Trump Organization and Trump administration figures.
Federal prosecutors in New York say two North Macedonian nationals sold fake ‘Trump Bucks’ and related products to victims across the U.S. in a scheme that allegedly ran from 2023 through the present.
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…
New York Attorney General Letitia James moved on January 18, 2022, to compel Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump to give sworn testimony in the civil investigation of the Trump Organization. The same filing said investigators had uncovered signifi…
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 Jan. 26, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a federal judge to dismiss Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to block her office’s civil fraud investigation. The filing did not resolve the merits of the probe. It put the fight back on the question…
January 26, 2022 was not a new fraud ruling against the Trump Organization. It was the day New York Attorney General Letitia James moved to dismiss Donald Trump’s federal lawsuit challenging the probe, while the related state-court subpoena dispute remained ac…
The Trump records dispute was still unfolding on Jan. 26, 2022, with the National Archives already saying it had brought back 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago in mid-January after talks with Trump representatives. The public record at that point showed an active presi…
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 Justice Department filed a complaint on May 13 challenging the D.C. bar’s handling of Jeffrey Clark’s discipline case and explicitly framed it as a fight against the “weaponization” of legal process. The move gives Trump another chance to cast oversight of…
A federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey on April 28, 2026, over allegations tied to a May 15, 2025 Instagram post showing “86 47.” The Justice Department says the post could be read as a threat against President Donald Trump; Comey is pre…
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.
The Justice Department filed suit May 8 against New Mexico, Albuquerque, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, Attorney General Raúl Torrez and Mayor Tim Keller, challenging state and city limits on the use of public property and detention agreements for federal ci…
The Justice Department filed a federal complaint on May 4 seeking to stop Minnesota’s climate lawsuit against energy companies, arguing the state case is barred by federal law and the Constitution.
New York’s attorney general has asked a judge to force Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to sit for sworn testimony in the civil fraud probe into the Trump Organization. As of Feb. 5, 2022, the court had not yet ruled, but the case was already ce…
Trump’s lawyers kept pushing back in New York as the attorney general’s office said its evidence was growing. The fight is still about records and testimony, but the resistance itself is becoming part of the case.
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.
By Feb. 7, 2022, the New York attorney general’s Trump Organization fraud probe was no longer just an open-ended investigation. It was already in subpoena enforcement, with the office pressing to compel testimony and Trump’s side fighting to shut the case down…
A February 17, 2022 court order kept Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. under subpoena pressure in New York’s civil fraud probe, after a judge rejected their bid to block testimony and document demands.
Mazars said in a Feb. 9, 2022 letter that Trump financial statements for 2011 through 2020 should not be relied on. The letter became public on Feb. 14, 2022, when it was filed in New York court papers, adding fresh scrutiny to records central to Trump’s busin…
By February 8, 2022, the White House records dispute was already a public issue. The National Archives had said it recovered 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago in January, and the lawmaker who oversees the House panel asked for answers the next day.
The Justice Department filed suit on May 8 against New Mexico, Albuquerque and several state and city officials, saying HB 9 and the city’s Safer Community Places Ordinance unlawfully interfere with federal immigration enforcement.
The Justice Department says it filed civil denaturalization complaints against 12 naturalized individuals in federal court on May 8, 2026, and none of the cases has produced a citizenship revocation yet.
On May 4, the White House released the 2026 National Drug Control Strategy, and the Justice Department filed a complaint seeking to stop Minnesota’s climate lawsuit against energy companies. The administration’s metals tariff changes were issued earlier, on Ap…
A year after Fulton County opened a criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election, the case had moved into a more active phase. By Feb. 10, 2022, the district attorney was publicly signaling that a special grand jury co…
Trump’s false election claims were still reverberating on Feb. 10, 2022, in the form of ongoing legal and political fallout. The damage was real, but the record on that date supported a story about continuing pressure — not a neatly totaled legal bill.
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…
By February 11, 2022, the New York attorney general’s Trump Organization probe had already stacked up subpoenas, court fights, and a fresh rupture with Mazars. There was no big February 11 ruling, but the record on the books made the pressure hard to miss.
On February 11, 2022, the New York attorney general’s civil probe into the Trump Organization was still active, with court fights centered on testimony, subpoenas, and alleged asset misstatements. The later-public Mazars letter would only make the pressure wor…
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.
On May 4, the Justice Department asked a federal court to block Minnesota’s climate-deception case, arguing the state is using consumer-law claims to intrude on federal authority over greenhouse-gas regulation.
James Comey was indicted on April 28, 2026, in North Carolina over a May 15, 2025 Instagram post officials say depicted “86 47” and formed the basis of two federal counts.
As of Feb. 13, 2022, the Trump Organization was facing a New York civil investigation that was still moving through subpoenas, court fights and a newly significant warning from its former accounting firm, Mazars. The immediate problem was not a final ruling or…
On January 18, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James moved to compel sworn testimony and documents in a civil probe of the Trump Organization’s finances, saying investigators had found evidence of misleading asset valuations used to obtain economic ben…
On Feb. 15, 2022, New York’s attorney general was pressing ahead after filing papers a day earlier seeking testimony from Donald Trump and two of his adult children in the civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s financial statements.
As of Feb. 15, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James was still pressing to compel Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to testify in a civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s financial dealings. Her office said the evidence showed …
On February 17, 2022, a New York judge ordered Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to sit for testimony in Attorney General Letitia James’s civil investigation into the Trump Organization. The ruling marked a setback for the family’s effort to bloc…
A federal grand jury indicted James Comey on April 28, 2026, on two counts tied to an Instagram post prosecutors say was a threat against President Donald Trump. The retaliation charge is political interpretation, not something established in the indictment.
James Comey was indicted on April 28, 2026, over the Justice Department’s claim that a May 15, 2025 Instagram post with “86 47” amounted to threats against President Trump. The filing is now headed to court, while critics are already arguing the prosecution is…
The April 28 indictment of James Comey over an Instagram post has turned into an immediate credibility fight for the Justice Department, even though no court has ruled on the charge.
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.
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 Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump’s effort to block the release of White House records sought by the House Jan. 6 committee, clearing the way for disclosure of presidential records tied to the post-election fight.
A New York judge denied Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.’s bid to quash subpoenas on February 17, 2022, allowing the attorney general’s civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s financial practices to keep moving. The ruling did not deci…
The federal indictment of James Comey continued to generate blowback as critics questioned whether Trump’s Justice Department had crossed another line between law enforcement and personal revenge. The case is now an avoidable political gift to Trump’s opponent…
The Justice Department filed suit May 4, 2026, seeking to block Minnesota’s climate-deception case against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, the American Petroleum Institute and Flint Hills Resources. Minnesota’s 2020 lawsuit alleges consumer fraud, deceptive trade…
The Justice Department filed suit May 6, 2026, seeking to block Colorado from enforcing its magazine-capacity law against possession. The complaint says the restriction violates the Second Amendment and asks for declaratory and injunctive relief.
The Justice Department is moving on Minnesota’s climate lawsuit, Denver’s weapons rules, and the James Comey indictment in a way that invites scrutiny over how aggressively it is choosing politically charged fights.
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.
Cole Tomas Allen was indicted May 5 over the April 25 shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington. Prosecutors say he fired a shotgun at a Secret Service checkpoint inside the Washington Hilton, striking an officer and forcing …
A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted James Comey on April 28, 2026, over a May 15, 2025 Instagram post showing “86 47.” Prosecutors say the post amounted to a threat against Donald Trump; Comey is charged under federal threat statutes.
The Justice Department filed a complaint on May 4 asking a federal court in Minnesota to block the state’s consumer-fraud lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, the American Petroleum Institute and Flint Hills Resources. The department says federal law p…
A federal grand jury in North Carolina returned a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey over a May 2025 Instagram post featuring “86 47,” days after an earlier Comey case was dismissed. The Justice Department says the post was a threat against…
On February 24, 2022, New York’s civil investigation into Donald Trump’s finances was still active, with the state pursuing testimony and document fights after January subpoenas and a February 14 filing from Trump’s accounting firm saying its past work should …
The Feb. 11, 2022 Durham filing in the Michael Sussmann case was quickly spun into a bigger claim than it supported. The filing did not prove that Hillary Clinton’s campaign spied on Donald Trump, even as allies and conservative media used it to push that stor…
By Feb. 26, 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records dispute had moved beyond a basic custody question. National Archives said the records should have been transferred when Donald Trump left office, said it arranged for 15 boxes to be moved in mid-January, and said it had…
On February 28, 2022, New York’s attorney general was still fighting to enforce subpoenas and sworn testimony in the civil investigation of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. The office had not announced a new fraud finding that day; the case remained in…
By March 1, 2022, New York’s Trump investigation was still a subpoena-compliance fight, not a fraud merits ruling. A state judge had ordered Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to comply on Feb. 17, and the Appellate Division affirmed that order on…
The Justice Department’s case against James Comey is still meant to project strength, but the record around it keeps feeding the opposite impression: a politically convenient revenge theory, a contested legal basis, and a White House that can’t resist treating…
DOJ says Operation Iron Pursuit ran for a month in April, with more than 200 children located and more than 350 suspected child sex abuse offenders arrested. The operation was substantial; the administration’s chest-thumping around it is another matter.
The Justice Department filed one gun lawsuit against Denver on May 5, 2026, and another against Colorado on May 6. Both cases are being handled through the department’s new Second Amendment Section, which says the challenged laws violate the right to keep and …
The Justice Department used the first week of May to roll out a child-exploitation enforcement sweep and two civil lawsuits. The legal actions were separate and came on May 4, May 5, and May 6, but the department’s public posture still read like political thea…
The Justice Department says it opened a civil-rights investigation on May 6 into Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano’s office, focusing on its plea bargaining, charging decisions and sentencing policy. DOJ says it will examine whether the offi…
A federal grand jury on April 28 indicted former FBI Director James Comey over a May 15, 2025 Instagram post showing seashells arranged as “86 47.” The Justice Department says the post was a threat against President Trump. The case is now a test of whether the…
The Justice Department filed lawsuits on Feb. 26 against Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia and New Jersey, saying the states did not turn over their full voter-registration lists when requested. The department now says its nationwide tally has reached 29…
The Justice Department says its year-long investigation found UCLA’s medical school discriminated based on race in admissions. The department says the school intentionally selected applicants based on race and violated federal law.
The Justice Department filed suit on May 6, 2026, seeking to block Colorado’s magazine restriction as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. The complaint says the law bars magazines the department describes as standard-capacity, while Colorado generally…
The Justice Department’s May 6 announcements included a lawsuit against Colorado over its magazine ban and findings that UCLA’s medical school discriminated in admissions based on race. A separate voter-roll lawsuit against five states was filed on Feb. 26, no…
The Justice Department filed a federal complaint on May 4 asking a judge to bar Minnesota from enforcing its climate-deception lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, Flint Hills Resources and the American Petroleum Institute. Minnesota says its state-law…
On April 24, 2026, the Justice Department said it would reinstate the first Trump administration’s lethal-injection protocol, add the firing squad as an execution method, and move to speed up capital cases. The department said the changes follow Trump’s Day On…
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…
The record from late April and early May shows a familiar pattern: fast action, heavy branding, and very little evidence that the pieces add up to a clean governing theory.
A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted James Comey over an Instagram post that used “86 47.” The case now centers on two federal counts and what the government can prove in court.
A federal grand jury indicted James Comey on April 28, 2026, over a May 2025 Instagram post featuring seashells arranged to read “86 47,” charging him under two federal threat statutes.
The Trump Organization’s New York legal exposure was not a March 6 surprise. By then, the key fight over the attorney general’s subpoenas had already produced a Feb. 17 ruling ordering Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to testify, with Trump also…
As of March 7, 2022, the New York case against Trump and his company was still in the pre-contempt phase. The court had already ordered more production, with a March 31 deadline looming; the contempt motion came on April 7 and the contempt ruling followed on A…
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…
On March 8, 2022, the Trump Organization’s tax case was still unresolved, leaving Donald Trump’s business pitch exposed to prosecutors’ allegations of off-the-books compensation and falsified records.
On March 8, 2022, the records battle over what Trump took from the White House was already hardening into a legal mess that would keep getting worse. His team’s claims of privilege and broad control over presidential materials were colliding with archivists an…
The New York attorney general’s Trump financial investigation was driven in early March 2022 by a February 17 court order that required document production, with the original deadline set for March 3 and later extended to March 31. The parallel fight over swor…
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a motion on January 18, 2022, to compel Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump to provide sworn testimony in the office’s investigation into the Trump Organization’s financial dealings.
The Justice Department on May 4 filed a federal complaint seeking to stop Minnesota from enforcing its climate-deception lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, Flint Hills Resources and the American Petroleum Institute. The filing comes after the Minneso…
A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted James Comey on April 28, 2026. DOJ says the case stems from a May 15, 2025 Instagram post it says showed seashells arranged to read “86 47.” Comey is presumed innocent.
The Justice Department filed a federal complaint Monday, May 4, 2026, seeking to stop Minnesota from enforcing its climate-deception lawsuit against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, Flint Hills Resources and the American Petroleum Institute. Minnesota’s Supreme Co…
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.
A federal grand jury indicted James Comey on April 28, 2026, over a May 15, 2025 Instagram post showing seashells arranged as “86 47.” Prosecutors say the post amounted to threats against President Trump; Comey is presumed innocent.
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.
Federal prosecutors say a California man was arraigned on April 27, 2026, after the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting and was charged with attempting to assassinate the president.
On March 15, 2022, the Trump political orbit was still leaning on defiance and delay, but the January 6 investigation had already moved through subpoenas, court fights, and looming contempt action. The date marks a midpoint in the fallout, not a fresh turning …
A February 17, 2022 order from New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron compelled Donald Trump to turn over documents within 14 days and required Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump to appear for depositions within 21 days. By March 17, those…
As of March 18, 2022, the Jan. 6 inquiry was still building a record against Trump and allies, with subpoenas already out and the next committee milestone set for later in the month.
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…
A federal grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey on April 28 on threat-related charges tied to his ‘86 47’ Instagram post. Trump allies are treating it as vindication, but the case also sharpens the argument that the Justice Department is being pu…
By March 20, 2022, Trump’s legal posture looked less like confidence than overload. The pressure was coming from January 6-related scrutiny, false-electors fallout, and fights over presidential records.
On March 23, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office filed a request in court seeking documents from a second accounting firm that had worked for the Trump Organization.
On April 24 the Justice Department announced a broad death-penalty policy shift; on April 28, a separate grand jury returned an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.
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…
A federal judge dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking Arizona’s detailed voter-registration records, another setback for the administration’s nationwide campaign to force states to hand over sensitive voter data.
On March 25, 2022, the Trump Organization was still facing a New York criminal tax case that had been indicted the year before and had not yet gone to trial. The allegations were serious, but the matter was still pending, not resolved. The business that had lo…
Trump’s Russia-focused lawsuit was filed on March 24, 2022, and he was back on the stump two days later in Georgia, still treating the old clash as unfinished business.
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…
On April 30, 2026, the Justice Department released a task-force report alleging that the Biden administration showed anti-Christian bias across federal agencies. It is an executive-branch document under Executive Order 14202, not a judicial finding.
A DOJ vacancy notice posted Jan. 16, with an April 29 application deadline on the careers page, describes a Civil Division branch built to bring lawsuits, seek injunctions and press federal policy fights in court.
The Justice Department and ATF announced 34 final and proposed firearms rulemakings on April 29, selling them as a rollback of overreach and a reset in enforcement priorities. The political message is straightforward; the legal fight over what survives could b…
March 31, 2022 was the extended deadline for Donald Trump to comply with a New York attorney general subpoena. The contempt motion came later, after prosecutors said he still had not turned over the records they sought.
By April 2, 2022, Donald Trump had already blown past an extended March 31 deadline to turn over documents in New York’s civil fraud investigation, after an earlier March 3 deadline was pushed back.
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.
On April 4, 2022, the New York attorney general’s investigation into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization was still ongoing. The contempt motion over subpoena compliance had not yet been filed; that came on April 7.
New York Attorney General Letitia James moved on April 7, 2022, to hold Donald Trump in contempt after he missed a March 31 deadline to turn over records tied to her office’s financial investigation.
In Thompson v. Clark, decided April 4, 2022, the Supreme Court said a plaintiff bringing a Section 1983 malicious-prosecution claim under the Fourth Amendment does not have to show an affirmative indication of innocence. The case did not involve Donald Trump, …
The Justice Department said on April 28 that a federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted James Comey over a May 15, 2025 Instagram post depicting seashells arranged to read “86 47.” The case is now a legal test and a political one, with critics and support…
The Justice Department filed a civil complaint in South Florida on April 29 seeking to stop Cedric Reid, Juan Santana and Advance Tax Group Inc. from preparing federal tax returns for others. The government says the operation used fake or inflated tax claims a…
The Justice Department says it filed an administrative complaint with OCAHO on April 28, 2026, accusing Cloudera of using a broken email application process and a PERM hiring setup that shut out U.S. workers.
A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted James Comey on April 28, 2026, over an Instagram post prosecutors say amounted to a threat. The post at issue was made on May 15, 2025 and showed seashells arranged to read “86 47.”
The Justice Department says Cloudera excluded U.S. workers from applying for high-paying technology jobs and filed the complaint with OCAHO on April 28, 2026. The case is still an allegation, but DOJ says it is part of the relaunch of its Protecting U.S. Worke…
The Justice Department says Cloudera steered some hiring for high-paying technology roles away from U.S. workers and toward people on temporary visas. DOJ filed the complaint April 28, and the case will be heard by OCAHO.
On April 8, 2022, the New York attorney general’s contempt motion against Donald Trump was pending in court over document production in the civil fraud probe. No contempt finding had been issued yet; that came later, on April 25, when the judge imposed a daily…
By April 2022, the false stolen-election script was still doing political damage. It kept pulling Republican officials back into the same fight, while Trump faced a separate New York contempt motion over his failure to comply with a subpoena in the civil inves…
On April 8, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a motion to compel Cushman & Wakefield to comply with subpoenas tied to the civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s financial statements and property valuations.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit/complaint with the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer on April 28, 2026, alleging Cloudera screened out U.S. workers from certain tech jobs and favored applicants who would need employer-sponsored visas. T…
Purdue Pharma was sentenced April 28 in Newark to more than $5 billion in penalties tied to its opioid case, including a $3.544 billion fine and $2 billion in criminal forfeiture. The number is real. So is the long delay that let the crisis spread.
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.
The Justice Department filed an administrative complaint on April 28 against Cloudera, alleging the company discouraged U.S. workers from applying for some tech jobs and preferred applicants who needed visa sponsorship. The case is not a final finding of wrong…
The Justice Department filed its New Jersey immigration-enforcement lawsuit on February 23, 2026, and announced it the next day, over a state executive order that limits certain ICE arrests in nonpublic areas of state property. The case adds another courtroom …
The Justice Department filed a complaint in intervention on April 24, 2026, in xAI’s challenge to Colorado SB24-205, the state’s algorithmic-discrimination law. DOJ says the measure violates the Constitution, including through a diversity-and-redress carveout …
The Justice Department sued Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont, Attorney General William Tong, New Haven, and Mayor Justin Elicker on April 13 over the state’s Trust Act and the city’s immigration policies. State and local officials answered the next day, saying the…
The New York attorney general asked a court on April 7, 2022, to hold Donald Trump in civil contempt for not producing documents tied to the state’s financial investigation. The filing also sought a $10,000-a-day fine until he complied.
By April 12, 2022, Letitia James’s office was still in a courtroom fight over Trump’s financial records. The investigation centered on whether his company used inflated values to win business advantages and lower values elsewhere, but the formal civil fraud la…
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 …
By April 14, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James had already asked a judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt for missing a court-ordered deadline to turn over documents tied to the Trump Organization investigation. The contempt issue was pending; no r…
By April 15, the key date had already passed: Donald Trump had missed a March 31 deadline to turn over documents in New York’s civil investigation, and the attorney general had already asked the court to hold him in contempt. The contempt ruling came later, on…
By April 15, 2022, Donald Trump was past a court-extended deadline to turn over documents in New York’s civil investigation of his business practices. The contempt motion had already been filed on April 7, and the contempt order would not come until April 25. …
On April 23, DOJ and DEA immediately moved FDA-approved marijuana products and marijuana products covered by qualifying state medical licenses to Schedule III, while setting a June 29 hearing on whether to reschedule marijuana more broadly.
The Justice Department inspector general announced an audit on April 23, 2026, focused on DOJ’s handling of Epstein Files Transparency Act records, with preliminary objectives covering identification, redaction, withholding, and release.
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.
The Justice Department filed on April 24, 2026, to intervene in xAI’s federal challenge to Colorado’s algorithmic-discrimination law, arguing the statute violates the Equal Protection Clause and improperly reaches disparate-impact and diversity-related provisi…
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.
April 15, 2022 was a court-ordered deadline for Trump to turn over documents in New York’s civil investigation. The contempt motion had already been filed on April 7, and the contempt finding came later, on April 25, with the written order entered April 26.
By April 18, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James had already asked a judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt over his failure to turn over records in the Trump Organization investigation. The motion was filed April 7, but the court had not ruled yet; …
In an April 19 filing, Donald Trump said he personally did not have records subpoenaed in New York’s fraud probe. The affidavit was a response to a contempt motion filed on April 7, not a ruling, and the court later ordered Trump to pay a contempt fine unless …