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Public federal court records show a 2016 complaint filed under the name Katie Johnson against Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (...
The affidavit attributed to "Katie Johnson" would most likely appear on the federal district court docket for the Central District of California case styled Katie Johnson v. Donald J. Trump, case numb...
The U.S. system prevents a president from becoming a monarch through structural limits: a constitutional two-term cap on election to the presidency (Twenty‑Second Amendment) and a separation of powers...
Federal law and court rules create multiple, overlapping limits on the Department of Justice’s ability to seal or unseal materials in a federal criminal probe: grand‑jury secrecy under Rule 6(e) is es...
The name "" refers to multiple jurists across history; the most prominent living figure in federal service is , a U.S. district judge for the appointed in 2001 . Historical and state‑level judges with...
Barack Obama is documented by official records and longstanding reporting as a U.S. citizen born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and multiple courts and fact‑checks have treated challenges to that status as base...
Federal courts have repeatedly shown reluctance to order postponements or broad extensions of federal elections and generally defer to state officials, state courts, and Congress unless a clear consti...
Katie Johnson v. Donald J. Trump (C.D. Cal. No. 5:16-cv-00797) can be found on PACER—the federal courts’ official docket system—and on multiple public mirrors and aggregators that republish PACER-sour...
Federal law and practice around sealing and unsealing court and investigative files have been nudged by a mix of appellate opinions, judiciary-level administrative actions, high‑profile disclosure bat...
Court records and contemporary reporting show no published rulings or motions in the Katie Johnson (aka Jane Doe) lawsuit against Donald Trump after mid‑2025; the federal civil case was dismissed in 2...
Courts apply an array of tests when deciding whether a presidential action violates the Constitution, most prominently: whether the president had statutory or constitutional authority to act (separati...
Recent reporting and legal materials show several high-profile developments shaping when and why U.S. courts seal records: state-level reforms that expand automatic sealing (for example, California’s ...
Between the early 1950s and 1969 the Supreme Court both enabled and then sharply curtailed government power to bar or punish communists: Dennis v. United States upheld Smith Act convictions in 1951, b...
U.S. courts and military tribunals have long drawn a line between orders that are “authorized and lawful” and those that are “patently illegal,” holding individuals responsible for obeying or refusing...
Court records for case number 5:16-cv-00797-DMG-KS show it was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California (C.D. Cal.), specifically the Eastern Division, in a com...