Tag Archives: President Donald Trump

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams In a blow to Donald Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by the former president to prevent a congressional committee from obtaining his federal income tax returns. The high court’s brief unsigned order—which contained no noted dissents—came less than a month after …

Elon Musk has reinstated former President Donald Trump’s account on Twitter, nearly two years after Trump was banned from the social media platform for inciting violence. Trump’s account reappeared on Twitter on Saturday after Musk, the platform’s new owner, ran a poll on the social media site that showed narrow …

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he has appointed Jack Smith, a longtime federal prosecutor, as special counsel to oversee ongoing investigations into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents and his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The announcement comes days …

Julia Conley, Common Dreams As former President Donald Trump prepared to announce his 2024 presidential campaign Tuesday, Rep. David Cicilline was circulating a letter to his fellow Democratic lawmakers calling on them to support legislation that would bar Trump from running, citing his involvement in the January 2021 attack on …

Jacob Fischler, Florida Phoenix Former President Donald Trump, whose lies about his reelection loss in 2020 precipitated an insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Tuesday he will make another run for the White House in 2024. His announcement came only a week after a disappointing showing by Republicans — …

Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams Less than a month after he expressed eagerness to provide testimony on live television, former President Donald Trump sued the House January 6 panel to block a subpoena ordering him to testify. In a lawsuit filed Friday night in the Southern District of Florida, Trump’s legal …

Julia Conley, Common Dreams Former President Donald Trump on Thursday night signaled to his supporters in Sioux City, Iowa that he’s close to making an announcement about the 2024 election, as his advisers are reportedly preparing for a campaign launch days after the midterms. As Axios reported Friday, Trump’s aides …

A New York judge on Thursday granted the state Attorney General Letitia James‘ request for an independent monitor to supervise the businesses of former President Donald Trump, who is a defendant in a fraud lawsuit recently filed by James. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron issued an order approving James’ …

Email conversations published Wednesday by Politico reveal that former President Donald Trump’s legal team saw U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as their most promising chance to prevent congressional certification of President Joe Biden‘s 2020 victory. A federal judge recently ordered former Trump lawyer John Eastman, the architect of the …

With less than a week to go until the midterm elections, supporters of former President Donald Trump‘s baseless “Big Lie” that he was the legitimate winner of the 2020 election have taken numerous approaches to questioning the integrity of the democratic process—including, in several cases, Republican candidates echoing Trump as …

The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily stopped the Internal Revenue Service from handing over former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a congressional committee. Chief Justice John Roberts issued an interim stay of a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit following …

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol sent a subpoena Friday to former President Donald Trump, demanding documents and testimony from the person the panel has said was central in orchestrating a plan to overturn the 2020 election that culminated in the insurrection. …

Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams As former President Donald Trump faced an onslaught of criticism and ridicule over his “rambling” 14-page response Friday to a subpoena from the U.S. House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, calls for action by the Department of Justice continued to mount. The …

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to weigh in on the battle over documents that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents took while executing a search warrant at his Florida estate.   The ex-president’s lawyers wanted the court to ensure that more than 100 classified …

Jacob Fischler, Arizona Mirror The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously on Thursday to subpoena Donald Trump, saying the former president must be held accountable as the “central cause” of a violent attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel’s …