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News Articles: Donald Trump

Rick Jeffares, then a Republican state senator, prepares to vote on a bill during the legislative session in Atlanta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and Senate Republicans announced on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024 that they will seek to appoint Jeffares to the State Election Board.

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Georgia Senate nominates former senator as fifth member of election board

The Georgia Senate is nominating a fifth member to the State Election Board. Former state Sen. Rick Jeffares must still be confirmed by the full Senate after the Thursday announcement by Lt. Gov. Burt Jones.

January 11, 2024
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering during a campaign event in Concord, N.H., on July 24, 2023.

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  • Elections

Vocal anti-Trump candidate Chris Christie exits presidential race with hot mic moment

The former governor of New Jersey — and onetime Trump ally — announced the end of his campaign Wednesday, just days before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.

January 11, 2024
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By:
  • Jeongyoon Han
Former President Donald Trump reacts to supporters during a commit to caucus rally, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa.

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  • Elections

Where the Republican presidential candidates stand on Donald Trump

Most of Donald Trump's rivals have gone to great pains to avoid directly criticizing the former president out of concern that it would alienate base Republican voters.

January 10, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
President Biden was giving a campaign speech at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., when protesters interrupted with calls for a cease-fire in Gaza.

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  • Elections

Protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza interrupted Biden's campaign speech

President Biden has firmly allied himself with the Israeli government after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. But the progressive wing of his party is increasingly critical about civilian deaths in Gaza.

January 09, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
Ahead of his speech, President Biden and first lady Jill Biden attended a small wreath-laying ceremony at the National Memorial Arch in Valley Forge National Historical Park on Jan. 5, 2024.

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  • Elections

Biden says the fight for democracy is at the heart of his 2024 rematch with Trump

President Biden used his first campaign event of 2024 to mark the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, saying his likely opponent, former President Donald Trump, posed a serious risk to democracy.

January 05, 2024
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  • Franco Ordoñez,
  • Deepa Shivaram,
  • and 1 more
Donald Trump launched his latest presidential campaign with a rally in Waco, Texas. At the beginning of the rally, Trump played a song featuring the J6 Prison Choir, made up of defendants in jail on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Investigations

The Trump campaign embraces Jan. 6 rioters with money and pardon promises

Three years after supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the future of the criminal cases against the rioters may hinge on the presidential election.

January 04, 2024
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  • Tom Dreisbach and
  • Noah Caldwell
GPB  NPR

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  • Elections

Maine's secretary of state tells NPR why she disqualified Trump from the ballot

Maine became the second state to rule the former president is ineligible to run because of what he did in the days leading up to, and on, Jan. 6, 2021.

January 02, 2024
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  • Scott Detrow,
  • Tyler Bartlam,
  • and 1 more
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts is shown joining other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022.

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  • Law

Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on artificial intelligence in the courts

Roberts focused on the promise and shortcomings of artificial intelligence in the courts in his annual report that made no mention of Supreme Court ethics or legal cases involving Donald Trump.

January 01, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Dec. 16 in Durham, N.H.

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  • Elections

Trump cries 'election interference' after Maine ruling will keep him off the ballot

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows stated former President Donald Trump is not qualified to appear on the state's primary ballot. The Trump campaign pledged to fight the decision in state court.

December 29, 2023
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  • Megan Pratz
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, in Reno, Nev. In a brief filed Saturday, Trump asked a federal appeals court to dismiss an election interference case against him, arguing he's immune from prosecution.

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  • Politics

Trump asks appeals court to toss election interference case, arguing that he's immune

The legal filing late Saturday comes after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to fast track a dispute on whether the former President is immune from prosecution.

December 24, 2023
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  • Jennifer Ludden
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump's actions on and around Jan. 6 disqualify him from the presidency and from appearing on the state's 2024 primary ballot.

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  • Elections

Colorado's Supreme Court disqualified Trump from the state ballot. What happens now?

Trump's team vowed to appeal the decision. If it's in front of the U.S. Supreme Court by Jan. 5, Trump's name will stay on the ballot. Legal experts say the question is likely to keep coming up.

December 20, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington. A federal judge in Atlanta is set to hear arguments Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, on whether Mark Meadows should be allowed to fight the Georgia indictment accusing him of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election in federal court rather than in a state court.

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  • News

Appeals court says Mark Meadows can't move Georgia election case charges to federal court

A federal appeals court has ruled that Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows cannot move charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia to federal court.  A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Meadows' request, affirming a lower court ruling from September.

December 19, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Fani Willis

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  • News

Fulton 19 update: Life goes on, jackpot justice for Giuliani, sorry not sorry

An email exchange indicates that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wants Donald Trump and his top aides to serve prison terms in the 2020 presidential election interference case.

December 19, 2023
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Georgia Republican Burt Jones, then a state senator and now lieutenant governor, hands in an electoral certificate claiming to be a duly chosen elector for Donald Trump on Dec. 14, 2020, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. A lawsuit heard on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, argued Jones should be disqualified from holding office in Georgia because of his actions as an elector.

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  • News

Lawsuit says Georgia's lieutenant governor should be disqualified for acting as Trump elector

A judge is being asked to disqualify Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones from holding office because of Jones' participation as an elector for Donald Trump in 2020. The judge says he we will rule later after hearing arguments on the case Monday.

December 19, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.

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  • News

Jurors deciding how much Giuliani must pay for lies in a Georgia election workers' case

Jurors will continue deliberating Friday to decide how much Rudy Giuliani must pay two former Georgia election workers for spreading lies about them that led to a barrage of racist threats and upended their lives.

December 15, 2023
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  • Associated Press
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