Donald Nieman, Binghamton University, State University of New York
In 1974, the Supreme Court accepted, heard and decided a case within two months because the justices understood its importance to the public.
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court brief characterizes historic cases and documents as saying one thing when they say the complete opposite.
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Donald Trump claims support in crucial court cases and historical documents for his assertion that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution. A law scholar says those documents say the opposite.
It’s important to democracy to have difficult discussions across political lines.
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What does someone like me, who believes that the last presidential election was legitimately won by Joe Biden, say to those who think the 2020 election was stolen?
Trump supporters attend an election fraud rally in December 2020 in Washington, D.C.
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A scholar of history of education and American politics explains what is behind his course on conspiracy theories and how students learn to debunk fake ideas.
Journalists set up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building on Feb. 8, 2024.
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Experts explain the context behind the Supreme Court’s ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on presidential ballots.
Signs proclaiming that the former president supposedly won the 2020 election are legion his rallies, as here in January 2022 in Arizona.
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Nearly a third of Americans say they believe that Donald Trump was the real winner of the last election, and the ratio is twice as high among Republican voters.
US Supreme Court associate justice Amy Coney Barrett during her swearing-in ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in October 2020, with Donald Trump in attendance.
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The US Supreme Court’s decision to review presidential immunity is likely to push back his trial over the Capitol Hill riots until after the election.
US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from the Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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34 groups filed briefs with the Supreme Court in favor of keeping Donald Trump on the ballot, 30 favored disqualifying him as an insurrectionist, and 14 simply added legal information to the record.
Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, are key to questions about his eligibility to hold office.
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In their Supreme Court brief, Colorado residents seeking to bar Trump from their state’s ballot say that ‘Trump intentionally organized and incited a violent mob to attack the US Capitol.’
The U.S Supreme Court will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the 2024 presidential ballot.
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The former president has raised several legal arguments that do not yet have clear answers. A constitutional scholar says they’re questions worth asking.
Social media and cellphones connected President Trump to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
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A historian and legal scholar of a key part of the US Constitution explains what happens now that the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled Trump cannot be on the state’s presidential ballots.
On Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump exhorted followers to object to the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Trump’s call for violence is only part of a larger push for social disruption and destruction. For only in the wake of such events can a new, white, Christian, illiberal world arise.
Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, at left, and group member Joe Biggs were sentenced to many years in federal prison.
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The Proud Boys are more of a loosely affiliated street gang than they are a unified right-wing militia, researchers say. But police ignore the threats from these groups, and their threats grow.
Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio during a rally in Portland, Oregon, on September 26, 2020. He recently faced a trial for his role in the attack on the US Capitol.
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Experts say remorse can serve as a catalyst for change, forcing us to confront our feelings of guilt and regret.
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., where an Aug. 11, 2023, hearing was held on the Trump case.
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What can President Trump and his lawyers say about documents and witness statements used as evidence in his upcoming trial over his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election?