Apr 16 Watch 4:15 Supreme Court questions use of obstruction law in Jan. 6 cases By Geoff Bennett, Saher Khan The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case looking at an obstruction law used to prosecute hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters. The obstruction statute is also key to various legal challenges facing former President Donald Trump. Geoff Bennett… Continue watching
Mar 18 Supreme Court rejects appeal from New Mexico official barred from office for Jan. 6 participation By Morgan Lee, Nicholas Riccardi, Mark Sherman, Associated Press The court’s order Monday means Republican former Otero County commissioner Couy Griffin remains disqualified from public office under a constitutional provision designed to prevent ex-Confederates from serving in government after the Civil War. Continue reading
Mar 14 Trump White House official convicted of contempt must report to prison, appeals court finds By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press Navarro has been ordered to report to a federal prison by March 19. He argued he should stay free as he appeals his conviction for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the… Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch 5:21 Supreme Court says only Congress, not states, can remove Trump from presidential ballots By William Brangham, Ali Schmitz The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that individual states cannot remove former President Donald Trump from their ballots based on the 14th Amendment. In an unsigned opinion, the court said only Congress, not states, can disqualify presidential candidates under the… Continue watching
Feb 08 What we learned from the landmark Supreme Court arguments about Trump and the insurrection clause By Marcia Coyle In one of the most important political and election law cases in at least two decades, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on whether former President Donald Trump is ineligible for the presidency under a key section of the… Continue reading
Feb 01 Watch 7:17 What is Christian nationalism and why it raises concerns about threats to democracy By Laura Barrón-López, Sam Lane White Christian nationalism has been in the headlines quite a lot as of late. Brad Onishi is a former evangelical minister who once identified as a Christian nationalist himself. He left the church in 2005 and began studying religion and… Continue watching
Jan 16 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. Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch 5:52 The arguments Trump’s attorneys are making to claim he’s immune from Jan. 6 prosecution By Geoff Bennett, Ali Schmitz, Ian Couzens Donald Trump was in court in Washington while his attorneys argued the former president is immune from federal prosecution connected to the Jan. 6 attack. The three judge appeals panel seemed skeptical of the argument that Trump was acting in… Continue watching
Jan 09 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. Continue reading
Jan 08 WATCH: Biden condemns ‘poison’ of white supremacy in campaign speech at South Carolina church By Colleen Long, Zeke Miller, Darlene Superville, Associated Press Biden spoke from the pulpit of Mother Emanuel AME Church, where in 2015 nine Black parishioners were shot to death by the white stranger they had invited to join their Bible study. Continue reading