Politics Today News Prosecuting Trump For Jan 6 Is Worth The Political Risk

Trump’s push to rewrite the history of January 6 takes an especially brazen turn

Shortly after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the political right spent a lot of time parsing whether the word “insurrection” was an apt description of the day’s events. Read More

‘Orwellian’: Current and former prosecutors alarmed after DOJ scrubs mentions of Trump and January 6 from court records

The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is ... Read More

Trump says Jan. 6 pardons don't undercut law-and-order after rioter charged with new crime

President Donald Trump said during a White House event focused on his crime-prevention push that pardoning those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 doesn't undermine his public safety ... Read More

First Comey, then James, now John Bolton. Here's who is next on Trump's legal hit list.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton became the third high-profile Trump critic to be criminally charged on Oct. 16, after the president publicly attacked ... Read More

Trump DOJ tries to erase Jan. 6 history as scholars warn of authoritarianism in Comey case

Legal Newsletter connects the authoritarian dots of the Trump administration’s legal actions ahead of the pivotal tariffs hearing. Read More

Trump-appointed judge praises prosecutors placed on leave after calling Jan. 6 a 'riot'

The comments came at the sentencing of a former Jan. 6 defendant who was arrested in 2023 after he showed up in Barack Obama's neighborhood carrying weapons. Read More