In 2020,the #StopTheSteal movement built over months of false claims of fraud, culminating in the violence of Jan. 6, 2021. Is the same foundation being laid by local GOP activists today?
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Trump’s incendiary election denial is ramping up as the 2024 election nears, and more Americans than ever believe that ‘patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.’
When political discourse is devoid of facts and high on demonization, it’s no surprise that political violence is the result. There is a way out, but it’s slow and will take effort.
The Supreme Court’s decision has major implications for the criminal prosecution of Trump and for the country and how it is governed.
The dissenting judges argued that the Supreme Court’s decision will dramatically expand the president’s powers while in office.
A scholar of militia activity observes extremists stepping back into the public sphere after a few years of being less visible.
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Donald Trump claims support in crucial court cases and historical documents for his assertion that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution.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.
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?
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.
Experts explain the context behind the Supreme Court’s ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on presidential ballots.
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.
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.
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.
US law has long held that those who support rebels and insurrectionists are just as guilty of treason as those who support foreign enemies.
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 first shoe has dropped in the Supreme Court’s process of considering whether Donald Trump is eligible to be president.
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 allows a political leader to direct the behavior of political movements, including engaging in violence and insurrection.
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.
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Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury
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Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama
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University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
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Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
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Spécialiste de la politique américaine, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
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