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Requests for a “top 10 positive accomplishments” of Donald Trump’s second presidential term must rely on partisan claims, executive actions, and early statutory wins rather than an authoritative, neut...
A presidential pardon applies only to federal offenses; it cannot directly nullify state criminal convictions . However, pardons can have indirect effects — procedural, political, and practical — that...
The House of Representatives requires a simple majority vote to adopt articles of impeachment against a president—meaning more votes in favor than against among members voting when a quorum is present...
Counting “how many lawsuits are against Donald Trump right now” depends on definition: trackers of litigation targeting the Trump administration report figures ranging from about 186 suits by April 20...
Available reporting shows multiple, inconsistent tallies of Donald Trump’s litigation outcomes depending on scope (administration regulatory cases, state suits, private civil suits, settlements). For ...
As of January 2026, Donald Trump has been the subject of four major criminal prosecutions that originated in 2023 — a New York state case that resulted in a 2024 conviction later discharged, and three...
As of November 19, 2025, available reporting shows Donald Trump had been convicted on 34 felony counts in the New York “hush‑money” case (May 30, 2024) and that the Georgia racketeering prosecution ha...
Available trackers and reporting show hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration in 2025 — estimates range from roughly 186 adjudicated-or-pending suits in some snapshots to...
Reporting trackers and outlets show a wide range: specialized trackers list between roughly 186 and 530 separate legal actions or suits connected to the Trump administration in 2025, while major news ...
Courts and legal trackers show numerous lawsuits challenging President Trump’s actions and several lower-court rulings limiting his policies — notably on tariffs and domestic deployments — but availab...
Counting how many times Donald Trump has “been taken to court” depends on what you include: his personal and business legal history runs into the thousands (USA Today/Wikipedia counts over 4,000 suits...
Available reporting shows widely differing tallies and no single authoritative total for “how many civil lawsuits Donald Trump has been involved in” or an agreed breakdown of outcomes; some sources ci...
The District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) is uniquely structured: by statute it is under the president’s command rather than the mayor’s, and that presidential authority has been delegated throug...
Donald Trump has been charged in four distinct criminal matters that produced 88 counts across 2023–2025; as of November 26, 2025 he was convicted on 34 counts (falsifying business records in New York...
Video of the Jan. 7 Minneapolis encounter shows ICE agent Jonathan Ross firing into Renee Good’s SUV as the vehicle moves; multiple news analyses conclude the footage does not clearly show Ross being ...
The current landscape of legal actions involving Donald Trump comprises multiple distinct matters across federal and state courts, with coverage showing ongoing prosecutions, dismissals in some venues...
Available trackers and news summaries disagree on both scope and counting rules, so there is no single, definitive tally in the provided sources: Forbes reports the administration “won” about 31% of 1...
Pam Bondi issued a Dec. 4 memorandum directing the Justice Department and FBI to prioritize investigations into antifa and “antifa-aligned” actors, to compile lists of groups that “may constitute dome...
President Biden did not seek a new, standalone congressional authorization for the military actions carried out in 2024; instead, his administration relied on a mixture of prior Authorizations for Use...
Federal law gives the president powerful tools to federalize or deploy National Guard troops, and recent 2025 actions show administrations can and have moved Guard forces without a governor’s consent ...