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Election Workers Have Gotten Death Threats and Warnings They Will Be Lynched, the U.S. Government Says

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.
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Liberal Groups Seek to Use the Constitution's Insurrection Clause to Block Trump From 2024 Ballots

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.
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Updated: As Trump and Republicans Target Georgia's Fani Willis for Retribution, Kemp Opts Out

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.
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Updated: Only Defendant in Ga. Election Indictment to Spend Time in Jail Is Released on Bond

A lawyer for Harrison William Prescott Floyd on Tuesday negotiated a $100,000 bond with the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
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Updated: Judge Holds Giuliani Liable in Georgia Election Workers' Defamation Case, Orders Him to Pay Fees

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.
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Attorneys Indicted With Trump Say They Were Doing Their Jobs, Might Have Tough Argument to Win

"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.
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Trump Trial Set for March 4, 2024, in Federal Case Charging Him With Plotting to Overturn Election

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.
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Ga. Election Board Leader Who Debunked Unfounded 2020 Election Fraud Claims Stepping Down

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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Trump, 18 Others Charged in the Georgia Election Case Are Scheduled for Sept. 6 Arraignments

All 19 defendants, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, have been scheduled for arraignment on Sept. 6, when they may enter pleas as well, according to court records.
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UPDATED: Meadows Says Actions Laid Out in Georgia Indictment Were Part of His Job

Trump's former chief of staff testified that he never asked White House personnel officer John McEntee to draft a memo to Vice President Mike Pence on how to delay certification of the election. "When this came out in the indictment, it was the biggest surprise for me," Meadows said Monday.
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