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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.…
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.
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…
Trump tried to frame the border as a bigger crisis than inflation in a holiday-week statement, then promised he could fix inflation “very quickly” if handed power again. The message was classic Trump: blend a real economic concern with a border alarm, inflate …
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania challenge on Nov. 27, 2020, after the state had already certified the election results three days earlier.
A federal appeals court rejected the Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania election challenge on Nov. 27, 2020, saying the claims did not justify the relief the campaign wanted.
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 …
Documents and reporting around the post-2020 false-elector effort suggest Wisconsin was an early piece of a broader plan, not a lone origin point. The scheme later surfaced across multiple battleground states and drew further scrutiny from investigators.
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…
Georgia’s 2020 presidential vote was first reaffirmed in a Nov. 19 statewide audit, then recertified on Dec. 7 after recounts, and later reinforced by a Dec. 29 signature audit. A 2023 fake-elector fight did not alter the underlying result.
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…
By Dec. 5, 2021, Donald Trump’s false election claim was still shaping public politics and lingering in the legal aftermath, even as courts had repeatedly rejected many of the post-2020 fraud allegations.
By Dec. 5, 2021, Donald Trump and much of his political orbit were still pressing false claims about the 2020 election, even as courts and officials had long since rejected the underlying narrative. The movement kept generating noise, but it was still stuck in…
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.
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 …
Wisconsin’s 2020 alternate-elector scheme left behind signed certificates, meeting records, and court filings that later became evidence in civil litigation. The basic facts are straightforward: the slate met at the Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, and filed papers c…
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 …
On Dec. 13, 2021, New York’s investigation into the Trump Organization was still open and still aimed at getting testimony and records, not handing down findings. The later civil fraud case that put Trump Tower’s triplex square footage in the spotlight had not…
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.
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…
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…
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. 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.
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 Supreme Court docket shows Trump filed his petition and emergency application on Dec. 23, 2021. A supplemental brief followed on Dec. 29, and opposition filings arrived on Dec. 30.
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…
By the end of 2021, the post-election litigation effort built around fraud claims had been rejected in court again and again. Judges dismissed cases for basic defects like standing, jurisdiction and lack of evidence, and in some instances imposed sanctions or …
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.
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 Jan. 6, Trump kept pushing election-fraud claims and making the riot’s politics part of his fundraising machine. The move kept his base fired up, but it also kept dragging the attack back into the center of Republican politics.
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.
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.
A federal judge in Washington pressed Donald Trump’s lawyers on Jan. 10, 2022, over their bid to treat his Jan. 6 speech and related conduct as protected presidential work. Judge Amit Mehta did not rule that day, but his questions signaled real doubt about the…
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 …
On January 12, 2022, the Trump Organization was facing a New York attorney general investigation over allegations that it had inflated asset values in some settings and minimized them in others. The legal and reputational risk was real even before any civil fr…
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…
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…
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 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.
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.
Trump’s tariff drive keeps colliding with legal limits and implementation rules, even as the White House sells each move as decisive. The latest examples are the temporary import duty and the semiconductor tariff order.
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 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…
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 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…
On Jan. 29, 2022, the Trump records recovery effort was still in progress. National Archives had already received 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago, but it did not publicly confirm items marked as classified national security information until Feb. 18, 2022.
In late January 2022, federal officials said they were already tracking hundreds of threats against election workers and had brought an initial interstate threats charge.
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…
Trump’s May 12 White House gaggle was another reminder that he prefers the fast, improvised answer to the careful one. The moment itself was ordinary; the pattern is not. He keeps turning brief press encounters into high-noise events that invite follow-up ques…
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…
A White House gaggle is not supposed to be a crisis, and this one wasn’t. But it was still a clean example of how Trump prefers the unscripted hit over the disciplined answer, leaving the cleanup to aides and the noise to everyone else.
The White House is trying to sell the Beijing trip as momentum, but the real test is whether it gets more than pageantry and a narrow trade nod.
The administration is leaning on a decent April jobs report and National Small Business Week to argue the economy is solid, even as tariff uncertainty and policy churn keep undercutting the sales pitch.
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.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation sued the Interior Department on May 11, 2026, seeking emergency relief and arguing the blue repaint of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool should have gone through historic-preservation review.
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. 7, 2022, the National Archives had publicly confirmed it arranged the transfer of 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago in mid-January. That confirmation put a cleaner date stamp on a mess that was already raising questions about how Trump White House records were …
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 May 1 Cuba sanctions order and May 7 Treasury action raise the cost of doing business with Havana, but the administration has not spelled out a public path to relief.
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.
On Feb. 11, 2022, New York’s attorney general was still in a civil investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances and had not yet filed a fraud lawsuit. The office was trying to force Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to give testimony and …
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…
Two separate White House tariff actions — a January chip move and a February temporary import surcharge — show the administration still leaning on taxes, carveouts, and deadlines to manage trade pressure.
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 trade court ruled on May 7 that the Section 122 tariffs were unlawful and issued a permanent injunction for Washington, Burlap and Barrel, and Basic Fun, while dismissing the remaining state plaintiffs’ claims without prejudice for lack of standing.
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.
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. 14, 2022, Truth Social had not publicly launched. The company had said it expected a first-quarter rollout, but the app would not go live until Feb. 21.
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 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.
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…
In January, April and May, the White House used Section 232 proclamations on semiconductors and on aluminum, steel and copper, then a Cuba sanctions order built on IEEPA, the NEA, INA section 212(f) and 3 U.S.C. 301. The legal tools differ, but the governing p…
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.
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…
Trump’s new social platform finally arrived in Apple’s App Store on February 20, 2022, but the rollout landed more like a stress test than a triumph. The launch was supposed to showcase independence from the platforms that had cut Trump off after January 6. In…
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 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’s May 7 proclamation marking May 8 as Victory Day for World War II is real, but it does not create a federal holiday or change the statutory calendar. The administration is using a solemn anniversary to wrap itself in patriotic spectacle, which…
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 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.
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 …
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.
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…
Truth Social debuted in Apple’s App Store on February 21, 2022, but early users ran into waitlists and access problems almost immediately. The rollout gave Trump a new platform, just not the polished one his project was trying to sell.
By late February 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records fight was still centered on a basic question: why presidential records that should have gone to the National Archives had to be pulled back from Trump’s Florida property at all. The Archives said it retrieved 15 bo…
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, …
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 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’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…
Truth Social’s February 21, 2022 debut was a limited iPhone rollout, not a full launch. Users immediately ran into waitlists and access problems, and the company’s own timeline said iOS would not be fully launched until April 2022.
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…
The administration’s Cuba sanctions package keeps expanding, but the official documents still leave the most important question unanswered: what would success actually look like?
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.
On May 1, 2026, the White House said President Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding sanctions on Cuba, including blocking measures, travel restrictions and authority to hit foreign financial institutions that facilitate covered transactions. The or…
The White House announced new sanctions on Cuban officials and entities on May 1, escalating pressure while reviving questions about whether the administration is building policy or just stacking punishment for headlines.
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…
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.
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 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 committees reported about $122 million in political cash at the start of 2022, even as his six-month fundraising total fell from the pace set in the first half of 2021. The numbers showed a large reserve, but also a slowdown that made his money machine…
Trump’s false comparison between COVID testing and the Obama-era H1N1 response dates to March 2020, when he blamed prior administrations for problems rooted in his own administration’s early testing rollout. The record shows the H1N1 response moved quickly in …
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.
Trump’s May 1 Cuba order widens sanctions under the January 29, 2026 emergency framework aimed at the Cuban government.
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.
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…
A February 18, 2022 federal court ruling kept Trump’s January 6 exposure alive in civil litigation, finding some claims against the former president could proceed while dismissing others. The broader result was to keep the post-election record open, and with i…
Trump’s latest Cuba sanctions order is another example of his love affair with emergency powers: broad sanctions, sweeping blocking authority, and a willingness to treat national security law like a permanent blunt instrument. The order may fit his preferred i…
The White House’s January 14, 2026 chip action imposed a 25% tariff on certain advanced computing chips. Its April economic report was a separate document that defended the administration’s trade and investment approach, but it did not announce that tariff.
On April 30, 2026, the White House rolled out TrumpIRA.gov as part of a retirement-savings executive order, but the administration is also leaning on a preexisting SECURE 2.0 Saver’s Match and putting the Trump name front and center.
Trump’s May 1 Cuba sanctions order widens the pressure campaign and leaves the administration without a public benchmark for easing it.
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.
Trump signed an executive order on May 1 expanding Cuba sanctions under IEEPA. The White House says the move targets repression, corruption and support networks tied to the Cuban government, but the public order and fact sheet do not spell out a benchmark for …
The National Archives had already made clear that 15 boxes of Trump presidential records were returned only after months of back-and-forth, and that Trump’s representatives were still looking for additional material that should have been turned over when he le…
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…
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.
Trump is again pressing the European Union over auto tariffs, but the official record still ties any relief to the 2025 U.S.-EU trade framework and the separate March 2025 auto-tariff action. The White House has not issued a new EU-specific 25% auto tariff ord…
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.
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.
By March 20, 2022, Truth Social had already launched, but the app was still dealing with rollout problems, waitlist complaints and limited early use. Trump’s account was also far smaller than his old Twitter audience, and he had posted only sparingly in the we…
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.
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…
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.
An April 30 executive order pushes agencies toward fixed-price and performance-based contracts, but it also centralizes more review power at the top and expands the White House’s control over procurement decisions.
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…