Capitol Riot

Donald Trump has now made clear that he won’t concede if he loses the election. Believe him.

A political hit job? A military coup? Trump’s lawyer tests the boundaries of a truly imperial Presidency.

The former President notwithstanding, the government’s position in Fischer v. United States is unsettling.

The former President has already lost the immunity case twice, but he has also won something.

The Justices seem to want to avoid a major decision about whether Trump can serve as President—but if they do so they may set off a national crisis.

What might be the most disturbing aspect of the oral arguments is how unsettled the law actually is in the area of Presidential powers and accountability.

The Wisconsin-based Nation reporter wasn’t at the Capitol when it was attacked. That hasn’t stopped Donald Trump’s attorneys from holding him responsible.

The attack on the U.S. Capitol, in 2021, is set to be a central issue for both the Trump and Biden campaigns in different ways.

A jury decided that Giuliani owes two election workers whom he defamed nearly a hundred and fifty million dollars. Even his lawyer suggested he “hasn’t been so great lately.”

Jelani Cobb, Jill Lepore, and Evan Osnos on the precarious state of American democracy and why—yet again—we risk losing it in the upcoming Presidential election.

Jury selection could begin a day before Super Tuesday.

On the ex-President’s snarly mug shot from the Fulton County Jail and a 2024 reality of Trump, Trump, and more Trump.

Does the Fourteenth Amendment empower state election officials to remove him from the ballot?

After weathering the former President’s assaults in late 2020 and early 2021, the American justice system, and its commitment to the rule of law, is about to be tested again.

At his arraignment on Thursday, the former President sat fragile and meek in the defendant’s seat.

The case will hinge on proving whether the former President truly believed that the election was stolen as he attempted to overturn it.

Since the filing of new charges against the ex-President, many G.O.P. politicians—including some of Trump’s rivals in the primary—have already adopted his framing of the Justice Department’s case.

At last, the former President’s “fraud,” “deceit,” and “lies” are called out in court.

As prosecutors release details of the charges and evidence against him, minds are slowly changing among less partisan voters—and maybe even among Republicans.

But, with 2024 looming, is it already too late?