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Which criminal cases against Donald Trump remained active or pending as of November 2025?
Executive summary
As of mid-November 2025, reporting and public trackers show a mixed picture: some high-profile federal prosecutions against Donald Trump were dropped by Special Counsel Jack Smith after his November 2024 announcement and thus were not active into 2025, while other matters — most notably the Manhattan falsifying-business-records conviction stemming from the “hush‑money” case and a paused Georgia state case — remained the subject of ongoing proceedings or transitions [1] [2] [3]. Available sources do not provide a single consolidated list of “all” active or pending criminal matters against Trump on a specific November 2025 date; instead, coverage must be pieced together from multiple reports and trackers [4] [5].
1. Hush‑money conviction in Manhattan — still in the system, appeal and sentencing questions
Trump was convicted in the Manhattan “hush‑money” case in 2024 and by early January 2025 Judge Juan Merchan had rejected efforts to overturn the jury verdict; reporting indicates sentencing was delayed to allow further filings and that the conviction remained the subject of appellate activity and sentencing scheduling into 2025 [1] [3]. Syracuse University commentary also notes the conviction and a pending sentence in that case were on the docket as of late 2025 reporting [6]. These items show the Manhattan case continued to produce court activity after the 2024 trial [1] [6].
2. Federal election‑related and classified‑documents prosecutions — Smith’s November 2024 withdrawals
Multiple sources report that Special Counsel Jack Smith moved to drop (or later actually dropped) the classified‑documents and election‑subversion indictments against Trump at the end of November 2024 and that courts subsequently granted dismissals without prejudice, citing the Department of Justice’s position about not prosecuting a sitting president; those federal matters therefore were not actively being prosecuted against Trump into 2025 according to CNN and Ballotpedia reporting [1] [3]. The dismissal left some co‑defendants or related prosecutions continuing but removed the active federal cases against Trump himself in those two matters [1] [3].
3. Georgia state case — paused, prosecutor disqualification and then a new prosecutor stepping in
Reporting and contemporaneous summaries show the Georgia case (the state prosecution over efforts to overturn the 2020 result) was paused while Georgia courts considered disqualifying the district attorney Fani Willis; the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Willis in December (of the prior reporting period) and the state Supreme Court declined review in September 2025, after which Pete Skandalakis — executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia — announced he would take on prosecution as of mid‑November 2025 because others would not [2]. That sequence means the Georgia case was not dismissed but had an interrupted, contested status and was effectively pending as of the latest reporting [2].
4. Other litigation and criminal matters — fragmentary coverage and administrative lawsuits
National litigation trackers (Just Security, Lawfare) document dozens or hundreds of active suits challenging Trump administration actions and executive orders, but those projects focus on civil and administrative litigation rather than criminal indictments of Trump personally; they are useful for context about legal exposure to his administration’s actions but do not substitute for a criminal‑case inventory [4] [5]. Reuters and SCOTUSblog coverage similarly canvassed Supreme Court matters tied to Trump administration actions, which is a different category than criminal prosecution of the individual [7] [8].
5. Where sources agree — a narrow set of criminal items remained active or in transition
Taken together, the sources consistently report that (a) Jack Smith dropped the classified‑documents and election‑subversion prosecutions against Trump (removing those federal indictments as active against the president himself) [1] [3], (b) the Manhattan hush‑money conviction remained in the post‑trial/post‑conviction phase with sentencing and appeals unresolved in 2025 [1] [6], and (c) the Georgia state prosecution had been paused, contested on prosecutorial grounds, and was being reconstituted under a new prosecutor by November 2025 [2]. Those are the principal criminal matters the supplied reporting treats as active or pending in the period cited [1] [2] [3].
6. Limitations, open questions and divergent perspectives
Available sources do not list every local, state, or federal investigative thread or unfiled inquiry as of a specific November 2025 date, so a fully comprehensive catalogue is not present in the materials provided [4] [5]. Some outlets emphasize prosecutorial restraint or DOJ policy about sitting presidents when explaining withdrawals (Ballotpedia, CNN) while others focus on procedural fights and alleged government misconduct in separate prosecutions (The Guardian, The Hill), showing competing framings about motive, legality and fairness [3] [1] [9] [10]. Where a source explicitly documents a dismissal or prosecutor action, I have cited it; where sources do not mention an allegation or case, that claim is not asserted here [1] [3].
If you want, I can convert this thread of reporting into a dated timeline (Nov 2024 → Nov 2025) showing each filing, dismissal, and motion with the source citations above.