By Marianna Wharry | August 31, 2023
In December 2020, Everett attorney Stephen W. Pidgeon filed a complaint on behalf of the Loren Culp campaign in King County Superior Court to contest the results of Washington's 2020 gubernatorial election following Culp's loss to incumbent Gov. Jay Inslee the previous month, who won by a margin of 545,177 votes.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | August 31, 2023
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee had set arraignment hearings for Trump and the 18 others charged in the case for Sept. 6. A court filing waiving arraignment means Trump won't have to show up for that.
By Lindsay Whitehurst and Christina A. Cassidy | The Associated Press | August 31, 2023
Government employees are being bombarded with threats even in normally quiet periods between elections, secretaries of state and experts warn. Some point to former President Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly and falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen and spreading conspiracy theories about election workers.
By Nicholas Riccardi | The Associated Press | August 31, 2023
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 Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | August 30, 2023
Noting that he had been called before a special grand jury to testify during the investigation, Kemp stated forcefully that Democratic President Joe Biden was the rightful winner of Georgia's 16 electoral votes and said swinging the spotlight to Trump's legal troubles would be a mistake.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | August 30, 2023
A lawyer for Harrison William Prescott Floyd on Tuesday negotiated a $100,000 bond with the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
By Eric Tucker | The Associated Press | August 30, 2023
Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said the punishment was necessary because Giuliani had ignored his duty as a defendant to turn over information requested by election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea' ArShaye Moss, as part of their lawsuit.
By Eric Tucker | The Associated Press | August 30, 2023
"Bad lawyering" is in and of itself not a crime, nor is "testing the waters" of legal arguments, said Stephen Saltzburg, a George Washington University law professor and former Justice Department official.
By Eric Tucker, Lindsay Whitehurst and Michael Kunzelman | The Associated Press | August 28, 2023
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan rebuffed claims by Trump's attorneys that an April 2026 trial date was necessary to account for the huge volume of evidence they say they are reviewing and to prepare for what they contend is a novel and unprecedented prosecution. But she agreed to postpone the trial slightly beyond the January 2024 date proposed by special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution team.
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | August 28, 2023
In his resignation letter, William "Bill" Duffey Jr. wrote that he wanted to step down now that the board has transitioned to a freestanding agency under Georgia's 2021 election law. It previously was chaired by the secretary of state.
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