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State courts can still prosecute related state offenses.
Two federal prosecutions brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith—the 2020 election‑subversion case in Washington, D.C., and the classified‑documents case—were voluntarily dismissed after Donald Trump’s ...
is broad but constitutionally and practically limited: it applies only to “Offences against the ,” so it cannot erase or directly block or state convictions, and governors or state pardon boards contr...
The governing precedent is : separate governments (federal and state, or two states) may sequentially prosecute the same conduct without violating the Fifth Amendment’s , a principle reaffirmed most r...
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a sweeping clemency proclamation that pardoned most convicted January 6 defendants and commuted the sentences of 14 high-profile defendants, producing immed...
The appellate paths for Donald Trump’s criminal cases diverge sharply depending on whether prosecutions arise in federal or state courts: federal prosecutions move through the federal circuit courts a...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has historically played a cautious, protective role when claims of presidential immunity arise: its Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued internal memoranda in 1973 and ...