Nicholas Riccardi

November 22, 2023 | Daily Business Review

It's the latest example of the potency of right-wing populism that flirts with authoritarianism, and an anti-incumbency fever that has spread across much of the world.

By Nicholas Riccardi and Jill Colvin

7 minute read

October 30, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The Colorado hearing is the first of two states' lawsuits that could end up reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. Monday's testimony began with details about the 2021 assault that was intended to halt certification of Joe Biden's election win.

By Nicholas Riccardi | The Associated Press

7 minute read

October 26, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Mike Johnson, the Louisiana congressman who was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday after a three-week standoff among Republicans, took the lead in filing a brief in a lawsuit that sought to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election win. That claim, widely panned by legal scholars of all ideologies, was quickly thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Nicholas Riccardi | The Associated Press

7 minute read

August 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The 14th Amendment bars from office anyone who once took an oath to uphold the Constitution but then "engaged" in "insurrection or rebellion" against it. A growing number of legal scholars say the post-Civil War clause applies to Trump after his role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and encouraging his backers to storm the U.S. Capitol.

By Nicholas Riccardi | The Associated Press

7 minute read

August 21, 2023 | Daily Report Online

In Georgia, voting rights advocates got a more mixed set of rulings Friday from U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee regarding Senate Bill 202.

By Nicholas Riccardi, Kate Brumback and Acacia Coronado | The Associated Press

4 minute read

August 15, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The sprawling, 98-page case unveiled late Monday night opens up fresh legal ground and exposes more than a dozen of Trump's allies to new jeopardy. But it also raises familiar legal issues of whether the First Amendment allows a politician to try to overturn an election.

By Nicholas Riccardi and Meg Kinnard |The Associated Press

6 minute read

May 30, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Florida last year became the first in a wave of Republican-controlled states to enact laws making it easier for parents to challenge books in school libraries they deem to be pornographic, deal improperly with racial issues or in other ways be inappropriate for students.

By Andrew DeMillo, Anthony Izaguirre and Nicholas Riccardi

7 minute read

March 09, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Jenna Ellis acknowledged making 10 "misrepresentations" on television and Twitter during Trump's fight to stay in power after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, according to the censure from the office of attorney regulation counsel in Colorado, where she is from.

By Nicholas Riccardi | The Associated Press

3 minute read

February 10, 2022 | Daily Business Review

The Florida case is becoming the latest test of how states' court systems handle the politically charged redistricting battle.

By Nicholas Riccardi and Brendan Farrington

6 minute read

April 01, 2013 | Daily Report Online

After one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down in January, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland carried a gun everywhere, even when walking the dog.

By Nicholas Riccardi and Nomaan Merchant

5 minute read