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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
No reporting in the provided sources indicates that any of Donald Trump’s criminal convictions were remanded for new trials or resentencing in 2025; his high‑profile New York conviction remained intac...
Multiple reporting threads show that many people pardoned by President Trump — especially the roughly 1,600 people tied to the Jan. 6 attack and a later list of at least 77 alleged “fake electors” — r...
Available sources do not provide a single, authoritative count of how many people related to Donald Trump by blood or marriage he pardoned across both presidencies; reporting and compiled lists identi...
Eyewitness and victim statements often serve as central threads prosecutors use to tie individuals into trafficking networks, but their reliability and presentation matter—courts may permit victims to...