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The Fulcrum

Student newspaper at the University of Ottawa

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Dec 5, 2025
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how many lawsuits are against Donald trump right now

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...

Nov 19, 2025
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How many lawsuits has Donald Trump won compared to losses?

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 ...

Nov 22, 2025
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How many legal cases has the Trump administration lost

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...

Jan 12, 2026

how many people has trump pardoned in both terms

Donald J. Trump’s record on pardons is unusually concentrated in two forms: hundreds of individually named pardons across his presidencies plus at least two mass proclamations that extend clemency to ...

Dec 13, 2025

How many lawsuits were filed against the Trump administration during its presidency?

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 ...

Nov 24, 2025

How many civil lawsuits has Donald Trump been involved in total and what proportion were won, settled, or dismissed?

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...

Nov 22, 2025

How many cases brought by the Trump administration were decided in its favor vs. against it?

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...

Nov 27, 2025

How does the number of lawsuits against Biden compare to recent presidents like Trump and Obama?

Counting lawsuits against presidents depends on what you count. Ballotpedia reports 133 multistate suits were filed against the Biden administration through his full term (multistate = two or more sta...

Nov 26, 2025

How many civil lawsuits has Donald Trump been a defendant in and what outcomes?

Reporting varies but the clearest figures in the provided sources point two ways: historic counts show Donald Trump has been named as a defendant in thousands of suits over decades (USA Today review c...

Jan 13, 2026

How does Trump’s number of pardons compare to other presidents?

Donald J. Trump’s use of the pardon power is numerically large in recent political headlines — he has issued well over 1,500 pardons and clemency actions across both presidencies, including a single-d...

Dec 14, 2025

How does the volume of lawsuits filed against the Trump administration compare to previous administrations (Obama, Bush)?

Legal filings against the Trump administration in 2025 number in the hundreds by multiple trackers — Bloomberg and The Fulcrum reported 328+ lawsuits by May 1, 2025 , other outlets and trackers list f...

Nov 28, 2025

The Trump administration has a 95% win rate against these lower court rulings??? The other 5% are EO’s they knew would be overturned!!

Claims that the Trump administration enjoys a 95% win rate in lower courts are inconsistent with multiple public trackers and analyses: some outlets report loss rates in the 90% range in federal distr...

Jan 16, 2026

How many House Republicans resigned or announced retirements during 2025–2026, and what reasons did they give?

Official trackers and major outlets converge on a substantial GOP exodus: as of January 2026, 26 House Republicans had formally announced they would not seek reelection, and several more left office e...

Dec 9, 2025

Deportation comparison Obama Trump

Available reporting shows Barack Obama’s administration recorded higher total “removals”/deportations across eight years than Donald Trump’s administrations have to date: multiple data analyses place ...

Jan 19, 2026

How many bills did the 119th Congress pass in 2025 and where can a complete list of presidential signatures be found?

The 119th Congress enacted a large body of law in calendar year 2025; one independent account tallied 196 bills as enacted that year, a figure that emphasizes the difference between counting individua...

Nov 26, 2025

How many civil lawsuits has Donald Trump faced since 1970 by year and case type?

Available sources show long-running efforts to count and classify the many civil suits involving Donald Trump but do not provide a clean, year-by-year tabulation by case type from 1970 onward; authori...

Jan 18, 2026

has Trump been declared incapacitated by his cabinet

No — President Trump has not been declared incapacitated by his Cabinet; Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which would require the vice president plus a majority of Cabinet members to declare the presi...

Dec 14, 2025

What percentage of Trump’s lawsuits were business-related versus personal?

Available sources do not provide a single, authoritative tally that breaks down every lawsuit Donald Trump has filed into “business-related” versus “personal” categories, so a precise percentage canno...

Dec 14, 2025

How do new policies impact concurrent retirement pay, TDIU, and 100% VA ratings?

New and proposed VA policy changes in 2024–2025 could alter how disability ratings are determined (notably for mental health, sleep apnea, and tinnitus) and affect payments through COLA increases repo...

Nov 24, 2025

What percentage of Donald Trump’s civil cases resulted in plaintiff victories versus defendant victories?

Available sources do not provide a single, authoritative tally that divides “all of Donald Trump’s civil cases” into plaintiff wins versus defendant wins; reporting and trackers instead cover subsets ...