Capitol insurrection

Read the Supreme Court ruling keeping Trump on the 2024 presidential ballot

By Dan Cooney

The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots.

Landmark Supreme Court arguments begin over Trump’s ballot ineligibility for Capitol attack

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The case marks the first time the justices are considering a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office again.

Trump White House official Peter Navarro loses his bid for a new contempt trial

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press

Navarro was found guilty by a jury in Washington's federal court in September for defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House Jan. 6 committee and has vowed to appeal.

Ray Epps, a target of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories, gets a year of probation for his Capitol riot role

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

Right-wing media outlets amplified conspiracy theories Epps was an undercover government agent who helped incite the Capitol attack to entrap Trump supporters.

Massachusetts voters become latest to try and keep Trump off the 2024 ballot over Jan. 6 attack

By Michael Casey, Associated Press

Five voters in Massachusetts have become the latest to challenge Trump's eligibility to appear on Republican primary election ballot in March, claiming he is ineligible to hold office because he encouraged the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a major mystery is still unsolved

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

Authorities are still working to identify more than 80 people wanted for acts of violence at the Capitol and to find out who placed pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national committees’ offices the day before the Capitol attack.

WATCH: Biden lambastes Trump for Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a day ‘we nearly lost America’

By Colleen Long, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

Biden warned Friday that Trump's efforts to retake the White House in 2024 pose a grave threat to the country, the day before the third anniversary of the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol by then-President Trump’s supporters aiming to…

Trump asks Supreme Court to review Colorado ruling barring him from the 2024 ballot

By Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press

The Republican presidential candidate on Wednesday appealed the Colorado Supreme Court's finding that an insurrection clause in the Constitution's 14th Amendment renders him ineligible.

Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from the state’s ballot under Constitution’s insurrection clause

By Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press

The ruling Tuesday marks the first time in history that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has been used to disqualify a presidential candidate.

Ex-Proud Boys leader is sentenced to over 3 years in prison for the Capitol insurrection plot

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group has been sentenced to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol nearly three years ago.