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Rep.James Comer — the Republican overseeing a near-yearlong investigation of President Joe Biden’s finances that has yet to come up with substantial evidence — took to X to boast of his committee’s “accomplishments.” It did not go well.

The Colorado GOP threatened to withdraw from the state's primary election if the state Supreme Court's ruling booting Donald Trump from the ballot is allowed to stand, Fox News reported Wednesday.

After the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump doesn't qualify for the 2024 ballots under the 14th Amendment's insurrection ban, speculation has begun about whether Michigan might make a similar move, reports show.

Attorneys for Donald Trump have asked the Supreme Court to reject a request from special counsel Jack Smith to decide if the former president has immunity from prosecution for his actions leading up to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

What goes around has come around for former President Donald Trump, who spent years arguing then-President Barack Obama and other Democrats didn't qualify for a place on American electoral ballots.

Pollster turned Trump 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway attacked Democrats on Wednesday while promoting the claim the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling removing Donald Trump from that state's 2024 primary ballot is "in doubt."

The steps of the Lincoln Memorial were vandalized with red spray paint and the words "free Gaza," Fox 5 reported Wednesday.

A Minnesota man was arrested for allegedly taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection after one of his high-school classmates tipped him off to authorities.

Former President Donald Trump is hoping that the United States Supreme Court, which features three justices he appointed, will rescue him from criminal charges by buying his argument that what he's accused of were official acts by a president of the United States, and thus immune from prosecution.

The founder of Students for Trump will not face trial after he was charged for allegedly hitting a woman with a pistol.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg could end up leading the charge of prosecutors who’ve accused Donald Trump of criminal conduct — and that may not be a bad thing, a Harvard University law professor contends.

Conservatives in a key swing state are tearing their hair out over an “incompetent dumpster fire” GOP party leader who could tip the scales against Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, a new report states.

Two British teenagers were found guilty Wednesday of the "disturbing" murder of a 16-year-old transgender girl who died in a "frenzied and ferocious" knife attack.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) doesn't want to live in a country where Donald Trump can't become president.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared Donald Trump to be an insurrectionist, but said it would be up to the courts to decide if that disqualifies him from running for office again.

An NYPD officer was charged with criminal misconduct for sitting on a handcuffed suspect and pepper spraying him in the face, the New York Daily News reported.

One of the plaintiffs who filed a Colorado lawsuit to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot actually voted for him in the 2020 election he lost.

Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis announced late Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation to slash federal funding for states whose lawmakers or judges disqualify presidential candidates from the ballot, as Colorado's Supreme Court did with former President Donald Trump in a landmark ruling.

An Arizona Superior Court judge has smacked down failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's attempt to get a defamation lawsuit filed against her dismissed.

Sure, there are men in robes and someone getting the pants beat off him, but can Donald Trump not tell the difference between an ultimate fighting championship match and his own civil court trial?

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The Supreme Court should uphold the Colorado case disqualifying former President Donald Trump from running again under the 14th Amendment, wrote Amanda Marcotte for Salon — not just because it is the constitutionally correct decision, but because it's one that ultimately benefits the Republican Party.

Attorney Alan Dershowitz said he would be "very, very tempted" to represent former President Donald Trump after the Colorado Supreme Court barred him from the state's 2024 ballot.

CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane noticed that its been a full month since Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claimed he was releasing the Capitol videos from the Jan. 6 attack.