Civil Litigation

There’s a dissonance between Jeffrey Clark’s bar proceedings and the Supreme Court’s immunity decision.

Rulings by federal district and appeals courts in Washington, D.C. will make it a lot harder for Trump to delay his trial in the Jan. 6 case.

The issue is complicated, but removal of the Fulton County case to federal court would not be a disaster—and is probably the right answer.

The former president is in a dramatically weaker position than he was before the latest D.C. Circuit opinion.

Despite hours of oral argument, the district court did not signal whether attempts to hold former President Trump and others civilly liable for encouraging the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will succeed.

After my post went live on Oct. 18, two significant developments occurred in the prospects of a contempt prosecution of Steve Bannon.

The House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack has set out to uncover an enormous amount of information with significant obstacles to overcome in the process. With so much to cover in such little time, ...

Supreme Court precedent compels the conclusion that Trump cannot escape liability for his actions, including encouraging, for his personal gain, the violent disruption of a constitutionally mandated sess...