A Georgia appeals court has disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from her election-related criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump, although the indictment still stands. Trump and his codefendants were charged in 2023 by Willis’s office for what they alleged was a scheme to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. […]

President-elect Donald Trump is talking about pardoning most of the people involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. He expects to do it as soon as he gets back in office.  

President-elect Donald Trump plans to revive a 2020 executive order that would make it easier for him to fire large swaths of federal workers.  

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan rejected on Dec. 16 a long list of immunity-related arguments President-elect Donald Trump made in an attempt to throw out the guilty verdict he received earlier this year. Trump had argued that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office improperly used certain evidence, including former White House advisers’ testimonies, […]

President-elect Donald Trump and his allies have vowed to secure the border starting on Jan. 20, 2025, after he is inaugurated. How will they do it?  

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Dec. 4 over Tennessee’s ban on gender-altering procedures for minors, teeing up a potentially game-changing decision for precedent on this issue. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorney Chase Strangio and U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the court to remand or send Tennessee’s law back to a lower […]

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head to Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with House Republicans on their plan to slash regulations and other parts of the federal government.  

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy plan to utilize existing federal laws to lay off thousands of federal workers. They say the will do it with respect.

NTD’s legal correspondent Arleen Richards gives an overview of how Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy plan to make the government more efficient.

Special counsel Jack Smith on Nov. 25 dropped the charges in his election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump, while also moving to drop his appeal of a judge’s decision in the president-elect’s classified documents case. In a six-page court filing in a Washington federal court, Smith’s team wrote that the Department of Justice (DOJ) […]

The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s felony conviction for orchestrating a fake hate crime, finding that his prosecution violated due process because it ran afoul of a nonprosecution deal he entered into in an earlier, related case. In a Nov. 21 opinion, the high court decided to reverse Smollett’s 2021 […]

The governors of Illinois and Colorado, both Democrats, have announced the formation of a new alliance aimed at safeguarding against “authoritarianism” and preventing the “undermining of democratic institutions,” just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is set to assume office. The alliance, named “Governors Safeguarding Democracy” (GSD), is being billed as a historic and nonpartisan coalition […]

Justice Juan Merchan, the New York judge overseeing the conviction against President-elect Donald Trump, delays a key ruling on Tuesday, ahead of a scheduled sentencing. Merchan has yet to decide on whether or not the conviction should be overturned. The prosecution wants more time to consider next steps in light of the changed circumstances.  

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has delayed ruling on President-elect Donald Trump’s immunity arguments in his falsified documents case. According to The Associated Press, Merchan told Trump’s lawyers on Nov. 12, when he was scheduled to make his decision, that he would make his ruling on Nov. 19, just days before Trump’s scheduled […]

Pennsylvania is a crucial battleground state for both parties because it holds a high number of electoral college votes. The latest polls are showing that this is a tight race that could be contested. We look at how significant the lawsuits are to how voters vote.  

Republicans and Democrats are filing several election lawsuits across the swing states. The main issues being litigated are mail-in ballots and voter rolls. NTD’s legal correspondent Arleen Richards reviews the issues.  

With early voting starting Saturday in Nevada, Democrats and Republicans in the state are in legal battles over so-called ineligible voters on voter rolls.  

As early voting has recently begun, Arizona’s highest court put a deadline on when lower courts should hear post-election lawsuits.  

Nevada’s Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee are asking a judge to toss a case filed by Republicans, which challenges voter rolls.  

President Joe Biden traveled to St. Petersburg, Florida, on Oct. 13 to announce $612 million for Department of Energy projects to strengthen electrical grids in the areas affected by Hurricanes Milton and Helene. The allocations include $94 million for two initiatives in Florida: $47 million for Switched Source, in partnership with Florida Power and Light […]