Author: Kaelan Deese and Ashley Oliver

On the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, convicted and awaiting defendants are making their final appeals for presidential clemency ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office. Many defendants are pinning their hopes on Trump’s repeated promises to issue pardons, though the details of how he will fulfill these…

The Supreme Court’s decision on former President Donald Trump’s claims of presidential immunity has presented new hurdles for special counsel Jack Smith‘s criminal cases that should give him pause over his approach to the sweeping indictments, legal experts say. Last week, the high court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines in Trump v. United States that…