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Legal analysts, commentators and post‑Jan. 6 investigations disagree on whether Donald Trump’s conduct on January 6, 2021 meets the constitutional crime of treason; several former prosecutors and scho...
and have publicly signaled , but their press statements and memos stop short of presenting concrete, public evidence tying specific funders to criminal conduct; instead they announce probes, task forc...
The Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, with a final tally of , falling short of the two‑thirds majority required for conviction; in voting to convict . The...
The President’s constitutional pardon power is broad but textually confined to “Offenses against the United States,” meaning federal crimes and certain D.C. and military convictions; it does not reach...
releases contain hundreds of references to — largely recycled news clippings and routine investigative material, but also a handful of documents that reference more serious allegations (including a ra...
Abolishing confession to priests would remake Catholic sacramental life and force clashes between canon law and civil authorities: the Church treats the confessional seal as “inviolable” and says a pr...
A phone accessing an illegal website can be powerful evidence but is not automatically enough to convict; courts admit phone-based evidence when it’s lawfully obtained and tied to the elements of a cr...
Multiple news outlets and released documents in 2025 have focused attention on prominent politicians whose names or associations appear in materials tied to Jeffrey Epstein, but available sources show...
There is no confirmed, contemporaneous decision by President Donald Trump to pardon or commute Ghislaine Maxwell’s sentence; reporting shows he has acknowledged the legal power to do so and left the d...
The courts have produced a mixed record on the War Powers Act of 1973: judges recognize constitutional contours of in some domains while frequently invoking doctrines that limit judicial intervention ...
’s 1827 decision in has long been read to grant the President conclusive authority to decide when exigent conditions justify calling forth the militia, a holding that courts and advocates cite to argu...
The Supreme Court agreed Dec. 5, 2025, to hear whether President Trump’s January 20 executive order—telling federal agencies not to recognize U.S. citizenship for most children born on U.S. soil to no...
Several senators publicly pushed for release of the Justice Department’s Epstein files and backed the bipartisan bill that passed both chambers and was signed by President Trump on Nov. 19, 2025; the ...
President Trump legally could veto a bill requiring the Justice Department to release Jeffrey Epstein files; congressional sources and analysts said such a veto could be overridden by a two‑thirds maj...
’s January 2026 release of -related material — described by officials and newsrooms as more than 3 million pages plus thousands of images and videos — produced few conclusively new, independently veri...
Documents and diary entries newly released in ’s Epstein file dump contain allegations that and sought to use some women as surrogates or to bear children for their purposes, including a diary entry f...
The –related files — a tranche described as millions of pages, hundreds of thousands of images and thousands of videos — have supplied raw material that both legitimate journalists and conspiracy comm...
Yes: multiple reporting organizations, legal analysts and watchdogs document a pattern of actions by the president and his administration that critics say are intended to and erode confidence in their...
The recently publicized references to “” in the newly released files are present in raw interview or complaint notes but are uncorroborated in the released record and have not been substantiated by in...
’s latest tranche of documents contains a mix of authenticated law‑enforcement materials — interview notes, images and videos, and agency summaries — alongside thousands of tips and emails that the de...