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FILE - Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. Arizona attorney general Kris Mayes says Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state’s fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Mayes posted the news regarding the Trump-aligned lawyer on her X account late Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty to felony charges in Arizona election interference case

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty Tuesday to nine felony charges stemming from his role in an effort to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Arizona to Joe Biden.
 
FILE - Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. Arizona attorney general Kris Mayes says Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state’s fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Mayes posted the news regarding the Trump-aligned lawyer on her X account late Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Rudy Giuliani was served Arizona indictment papers while leaving 80th birthday party, adviser says

 
Attorney John Eastman appears during his arraignment in Maricopa County Superior, Friday, May 17, 2024, in Phoenix. Eastman pleaded not guilty on Friday to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for his role in the effort to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in Arizona to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. (Rob Schumacher/The Arizona Republic via AP, Pool)

Attorney John Eastman pleads not guilty to felony charges in Arizona’s fake elector case

 
FILE - The Michigan State Police exit the Adams Township Hall after executing a search warrant, Oct. 29, 2021, in Hillsdale, Mich. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced charges Wednesday, May 8, 2024, against former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott and her attorney, Stefanie Lambert, who is pro-Trump, for allegedly allowing unauthorized access to a computer and its voter data in a search for fraud related to the 2020 election. (Corey Murray/Hillsdale Daily News via AP, File)

Michigan former clerk and attorney charged after alleged unauthorized access to 2020 voter data

 
This image released in the final report by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Dec. 22, 2022, shows a graphic that illustrates the difference between real and fake Presidential Elector Ballots from Arizona. An Arizona grand jury's indictment of 18 people who either posed as or helped organize a slate of electors claiming Donald Trump won the state in 2020 could help shape the landscape of challenges to the 2024 election. (House Select Committee via AP)

Charges against Trump’s 2020 ‘fake electors’ are expected to deter a repeat this year

 

Ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty in Arizona election interference case

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty Tuesday to nine felony charges stemming from his role in an effort to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Arizona to Joe Biden. Ten others, including former Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, also pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, forgery and fraud charges.
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Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty to felony charges in Arizona election interference case

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Special counsel team argues presidential immunity ‘has no foundation in the Constitution’

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Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024.(Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Ex-tabloid publisher testifies he scooped up possibly damaging tales to shield his old friend Trump

The former publisher of the National Enquirer testified at Donald Trump’s hush money trial about going to great lengths to help shield his old friend from potentially damaging stories.
 
FILE - Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump’s claim of absolute immunity but decision’s timing is unclear

The Supreme Court seems highly skeptical of former President Donald Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from prosecution.
 
Former President Donald Trump and attorney Todd Blanche return from a lunch break in his trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Trump loses bid to halt Jan. 6 lawsuits while he fights criminal charges in the 2020 election case

Donald Trump has lost a bid to pause a string of lawsuits accusing him of inciting the U.S. Capitol attack, while the former president fights his 2020 election interference criminal case in Washington.
 
FILE - Supporters of Donald Trump participate in a rally in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday, April 16, 2024, over the charge of obstruction of an official proceeding that has been brought against 330 people, according to the Justice Department. The charge refers to the disruption of Congress' certification of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election victory over former President Trump. Trump faces two obstruction charges. Next week, the justices will weigh whether Trump can be prosecuted at all for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Supreme Court questions obstruction charges brought against Jan. 6 rioters and Trump

The Supreme Court is questioning whether federal prosecutors went too far in bringing obstruction charges against hundreds of participants in the Capitol riot.
 
FILE - Wisconsin Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos speaks during a news conference, Sept. 18, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin Elections Commission rejects recall effort targeting Republican leader

Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission has rejected a petition seeking to force a recall election of the state’s top elected Republican, who has drawn the ire of former President Donald Trump.
 
FILE - Wisconsin Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos speaks during a news conference, Sept. 18, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Trump supporters trying to recall Wisconsin GOP leader failed, elections review concludes

Wisconsin elections officials say the effort by supporters of former President Donald Trump to recall Wisconsin’s top elected Republican did not gather enough signatures to trigger the recall election and therefore should be rejected.
 
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks on the phone as he watches play in the final round of LIV Golf Miami, at Trump National Doral Golf Club, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Prosecutors urge Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claims in election subversion case

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team is urging the Supreme Court to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
 
President Joe Biden stands with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., after speaking about lowering health care costs in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders join forces to promote lower health care costs, including for inhalers

President Joe Biden has teamed up with Sen. Bernie Sanders to promote the administration’s efforts to lower the cost of inhalers and other health care needs.
 
FILE - Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, talks to reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, June 20, 2023. A judge has recommended that conservative attorney Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Ex-Trump lawyer Eastman should lose state law license for efforts to overturn election, judge says

A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election.
 
FILE - This combo image shows Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, March 9, 2024 and President Joe Biden, right, Jan. 27, 2024. Many Americans are unenthusiastic about a November rematch of the 2020 presidential election. But presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump appears to stoke more fear and anger among voters from his opposing party than President Joe Biden does from his. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo, File)

Trump evokes more anger and fear from Democrats than Biden does from Republicans, AP-NORC poll shows

Many Americans are unenthusiastic about a November rematch of the 2020 presidential election. But presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump appears to stoke more fear and anger among Democrats than President Joe Biden does among Republicans.
 
FILE - Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs delivers her state of the state address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 9, 2023. Joshua Russell, of Bucyrus, Ohio, was sentenced Monday, March 25, 2024, in federal court in Phoenix, to two and a half years in prison for his conviction for making an interstate threat against then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs during the 2022 campaign season. Russell Had acknowledged making death threats in three voicemails left for Hobbs, who at the time was Arizona's chief election officer and now serves as Arizona's governor. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Ohio man gets 2.5 years in prison for death threats made in 2022 to Arizona’s top election official

An Ohio man who acknowledged making death threats in voicemails left for then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs during the 2022 election season has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
 
Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos derides supporters of former President Donald Trump who are trying to recall him from office as "whack jobs" and "morons" and predicted their effort would fail on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, during an event in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Wisconsin GOP leader says Trump backers seeking to recall him don’t have enough signatures

Wisconsin’s top Republican lawmaker says the effort by supporters of former President Donald Trump to recall him from office has failed.
 
Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos derides supporters of former President Donald Trump who are trying to recall him from office as "whack jobs" and "morons" and predicted their effort would fail on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, during an event in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Wisconsin GOP leader calls the Trump supporters trying to oust him ‘whack jobs and morons’

Wisconsin’s top Republican is deriding supporters of former President Donald Trump who are trying to recall him from office.
 

Massachusetts man gets prison for making bomb threat to Arizona election office

A Massachusetts man has been sentenced three years and six months in federal prison for making an online threat to bomb then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ election office.
 
FILE - Moderator Chris Wallace speaks as President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden participate in the first presidential debate in Cleveland on Sept. 29, 2020. Wallace has written a book on the race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. The race was narrowly won by Kennedy and featured the first televised presidential debates. Dutton announced Wednesday that “Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 311 Days that Changed America’s Politics Forever” will be published Oct. 8. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP, File)

Chris Wallace looks back at Nixon-Kennedy election in the book ‘Countdown 1960

Longtime newsman Chris Wallace isn’t only thinking about this year’s presidential election. The CNN anchor has written a book on the race between John F.
 
FILE - People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. President Joe Biden goes into Thursday's State of the Union address with an expanded plan to raise corporate taxes. He would use the proceeds to trim budget deficits and cut taxes for the middle class.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden to call in State of the Union for business tax hikes, middle class tax cuts and lower deficits

President Joe Biden is going into his third State of the Union address with an expanded plan to raise corporate taxes.
 
FILE - Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro is sworn in during a plea deal hearing, Oct. 20, 2023, at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta. A lawsuit settlement offers new details about how two attorneys for former President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there and in other swing states. The agreement settles a civil lawsuit filed by Democrats against the attorneys and the fake electors. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Takeaways from the Wisconsin 2020 fake electors lawsuit settlement

More than 1,400 pages of emails, text messages and other documents released Monday reveal details of a strategy by Republican operatives tied to then-President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Wisconsin.
 
FILE - Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro is sworn in during a plea deal hearing, Oct. 20, 2023, at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta. A lawsuit settlement offers new details about how two attorneys for former President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there and in other swing states. The agreement settles a civil lawsuit filed by Democrats against the attorneys and the fake electors. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Wisconsin fake elector settlement offers new details on the strategy by Trump lawyers

Two attorneys for then-President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying he won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there.
 
FILE - President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 7, 2023. A poll shows that a growing share of U.S. adults doubt that 81-year-old President Joe Biden has the memory and acuity for the job. That means Biden's upcoming State of the Union address could be something of a real-time audition as he bids for a second term. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

6 in 10 US adults doubt mental capability of Biden and Trump, AP-NORC poll finds

A new poll finds that a significant share of U.S. adults doubt the mental capabilities of 81-year-old President Joe Biden and 77-year-old Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in what could be a rematch of the 2020 election.
 
FILE - The Theodore Levin United States Courthouse is photographed in Detroit on July 11, 2011. An Indiana man accused of making a violent threat against a local election official in Michigan in 2020 pleaded guilty to the charge Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Andrew Nickels of Carmel appeared in federal court on the day of Michigan's presidential primary. A voicemail was left on Nov. 10, 2020, a week after the last presidential election, threatening to kill a suburban Detroit clerk and accusing her of fraud, investigators said. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)

Indiana man pleads guilty to threatening Michigan election official after 2020 election

An Indiana man accused of making a violent threat against a Michigan election official in 2020 has pleaded guilty.
 
FILE - Election Bureau Director Albert L. Gricoski, left, opens provisional ballots alongside election bureau staff Christine Marmas, right, while poll watchers observe from behind at the Schuylkill County Election Bureau in Pottsville, Pa. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. A rural Pennsylvania county and its elected officials may have to pay the state’s elections agency hundreds of thousands of dollars to reimburse it for legal fees and litigation costs. .(Lindsey Shuey/Republican-Herald via AP, File)

Pennsylvania seeks legal costs from county that let outsiders access voting machines to help Trump

A rural Pennsylvania county and its elected officials may have to pay the state’s elections agency hundreds of thousands of dollars to reimburse it for legal fees and litigation costs.
 

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Trump-allied lawyers over 2020 election lawsuit in Michigan

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Sidney Powell and other lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump over $150,000 in sanctions they were ordered to pay for abusing the court system with a sham lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results in Michigan.
 
FILE - Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger attends the National Association of Secretaries of State winter meeting, Feb. 16, 2023, in Washington. Georgia state senators voted Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, to allow the State Election Board to investigate Raffensperger, including his handling of an audit after Georgia's 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Georgia senators vote for board to oversee secretary of state despite constitutional questions

Georgia’s Senate is backing a plan to give the state’s appointed election board the power to investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s handling of elections.
 
President Joe Biden speaks with Craig Thompson, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, center left, as they look toward the John A. Blatnik Bridge between Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Biden is returning to the swing state of Wisconsin to announce $5 billion in federal funding for upgrading the Blatnik Bridge and for dozens of similar infrastructure projects nationwide. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden returns to a deteriorating Wisconsin bridge for an election-year pitch on policy achievements

President Joe Biden has returned to a deteriorating Midwestern bridge to argue that his administration is keeping its pledge to fix the critical link between the port cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
 
FILE - A Smartmatic representative demonstrates his company's system, which has scanners and touch screens with printout options, at a meeting of the Secure, Accessible & Fair Elections Commission, Aug. 30, 2018, in Grovetown, Ga. On Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, a judge refused to toss out Fox News' claims that voting technology company Smartmatic is suing the network to suppress free speech, meaning that both Smartmatic's multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit and the network's counterclaims can continue toward an eventual trial. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Fox News allowed to pursue claims that voting firm’s defamation suit is anti-free speech

A judge has refused to toss out Fox News’ claims that voting technology company Smartmatic is suing the network to suppress free speech.
 
FILE - Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger attends the National Association of Secretaries of State winter meeting, Feb. 16, 2023, in Washington. A lawyer for Raffensperger said on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, that a bill is unconstitutional to give Georgia's appointed State Election Board the ability to investigate Raffensperger. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Georgia secretary of state says it’s unconstitutional for board to oversee him, but lawmakers differ

A Georgia Senate committee wants to give the appointed State Election Board the legal power to investigate Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s handling of elections.
 
FILE - The Wisconsin Supreme Court listens to arguments from Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Anthony D. Russomanno, representing Gov. Tony Evers, during a redistricting hearing at the state Capitol, Nov. 21, 2023, in Madison, Wis. A Washington law firm that tries to help Democrats win elections around the country has asked the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the battleground state's congressional maps, arguing that the court's decision last month ordering new state legislative maps opens the door to the latest challenge. The redistricting lawsuit filed Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, by the Elias Law Group on behalf of Democratic voters comes less than a month after the court threw out the state legislative maps.(Ruthie Hauge/The Capital Times via AP, Pool, File)

Democrats ask Wisconsin Supreme Court to order new congressional maps for fall election

A national Democratic law firm has asked the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the battleground state’s congressional maps, arguing that the court’s decision last month ordering new state legislative maps opens the door to the latest challenge.
 

Virginia county admits election tally in 2020 shorted Joe Biden

A northern Virginia county is acknowledging that it underreported President Joe Biden’s margin of victory there over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election by about 4,000 votes.
 
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at a Washington hotel, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, after attending a hearing before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals at the federal courthouse in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump warns of ‘Pandora’s box’ of perpetual presidential prosecutions if charges against him stand

Donald Trump is warning that other ex-presidents could be prosecuted if criminal charges against him aren’t dropped.
 
FILE - Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington. Smith asked a judge on Wednesday, Dec. 27, to bar Donald Trump's lawyers from injecting politics into the former president's trial on charges that he schemed to overturn the results of the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Prosecutors seek to bar Trump from injecting politics into federal election interference trial

Special counsel Jack Smith is asking a judge to bar Donald Trump’s lawyers from injecting politics into the former president’s trial on charges that he schemed to overturn the 2020 election.
 
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