With the indictment dust is settling, politicians and legal observers are offering their takes on charges levied on Monday against former President Trump and 18 allies over alleged efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results.
Why it matters: The Fulton County grand jury's indictment is the fourth of the former president, who, despite his legal woes, remains a front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Georgia's racketeering indictmentagainst former President Trump and 18 of his allies lists 161 "overt acts" allegedly committed in furtherance of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
Zoom in: 12 of those overt acts are tweets sent from Trump's account.
State and local governments need to pony up more money to administer the 2024 presidential election, experts told legislators at a National Conference of State Legislatures summit in Indianapolis this week.
The additional cash is needed to address the dire problems that have bedeviled recent U.S. elections, from a shortage of poll workers to violent threats against election officials and foreign cybersecurity threats.
Hawai'i's primary energy provider faces at least three lawsuits, two of which seek class action status, after catastrophic wildfires devastated the state, killing at least 99 people and destroying the historic town of Lahaina on Maui.
Why it matters: What caused the wildfires remains unknown, but the lawsuits allege they were ignited by strong winds knocking down Hawaiian Electric's energized power lines.
Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is facing the same law that once propelled him into the spotlight.
Why it matters: Giuliani promoted RICO as a prosecutor at the outset of his rising political career, to take down New York mob bosses. He now faces as many charges as Trump in the latest historic indictment against the former president — including criminal racketeering.
Former President Trump's indictment Monday by an Atlanta-area grand jury over his alleged efforts to overturn the state's 2020 election results highlights a wide cast of characters connected to the probe.
Why it matters: This is Trump's fourth indictment, adding to an increasingly complex web of legal challenges even as he remains a frontrunner in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries.
A former FBI special agent in charge of counterintelligence at the bureau's New York Field Office pleaded guilty on Tuesday to multiple charges in connection to working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch in 2021, the Department of Justice announced.
Driving the news: Charles McGonigal, 54, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of his agreement to provide services to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.
Four months after Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg became the first prosecutor to indict a former president, the charges against Donald Trump have swollen to 91 criminal counts in four different jurisdictions.
The big picture: The Fulton County indictment was the last of the known criminal investigations into Trump. He's also facing at least three civil cases over the next year.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) rejected former President Trump's unsubstantiated claims of 2020 election fraud in the state, saying on social media on Tuesday that no one has proven any form of fraud in the almost three years since the election.
Why it matters: Trump repeated his claims after he and 18 others were indicted by an Atlanta grand jury on Monday over alleged efforts to fraudulently overturn Georgia's election results that year.
Driving the news: De Oliveira was allegedly asked by Trump and co-defendant Walt Nauta to help delete security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago to prevent it from being handed to the federal grand jury, according to last month's superseding indictment.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has unveiled the most sprawling and complex criminal case against former President Trump, indicting him and 18 others on criminal racketeering charges.
The big picture: The scope of the case presents a sharp contrast with the indictments rolled out on Aug. 1 by special counsel Jack Smith.
Hunter Biden's lead defense lawyer asked a federal judge Tuesday to withdraw from an ongoing high-profile case over tax and gun offenses because he could be called as a witness in future proceedings.
High-stakes contract talks between the United Auto Workers and Detroit's Big 3 automakers are a tricky test of Democratic coalition politics as the EV transition marches ahead.
Driving the news: President Biden yesterday urged the Ford, GM and Stellantis to avoid plant closures as part of a wider statement on the talks.
The top count former President Trump and 18 other defendants face in Georgia is a racketeering charge for allegedly violating the state's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO.
Why it matters: The charges in the probe into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced late Monday represent the fourth indictment brought against Trump in four months and mark the first time a former U.S. president has been charged with an offense that's typically associated with mobsters.
An Atlanta grand jury indicted former President Trump andover a dozen allies Monday in the probe into his alleged efforts to flip Georgia's 2020 election results.
Why it matters: Trump, a top GOP 2024 presidential candidate, already became the first U.S. president in history to be criminally charged earlier this year. He has pleaded not guilty to state charges in a hush-money case, federal charges in a classified documents case and federal charges in a Jan. 6 case.
The big picture: The wildfires are now the deadliest since California's Camp Fire in 2018, which killed at least 85 people. Hawai'i Gov. Josh Green told CNN Monday "the numbers will go up significantly in the coming days."
A Texas woman accused of helping dismember and dispose of the body of U.S. Army soldier Vanessa Guillén in 2020 was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday, the Justice Department announced.
Driving the news: Cecily Aguilar, 25, pleaded guilty in November to one count of accessory to murder after the fact and three of false statement or representation over the death of Spc. Guillén — who was sexually harassed and killed on Fort Hood Texas military base, now known as Fort Cavazos.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) floated a possible short-term government funding measure during a House Republican Conference call on Monday evening, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: It underscores the difficult path the divided Congress faces in trying to fund the government before the Sept. 30 deadline.
Former President Trump'slong history of trying to influence witnesses is suddenly exacerbating his legal jeopardy, raising the prospect that the 2024 GOP front-runner could be remanded into custody pending trial.
Why it matters: Past investigations in which Trump tested the line on witness intimidation did not carry the threat of immediate imprisonment. Now — out of office and facing a potential fourth indictment as soon as this week — Trump's lack of restraint has become the biggest short-term threat to his freedom.
During a call on Jan. 2, 2021, former President Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R)to help him "find 11,780 votes" and overturn the state's 2020 election results in his favor.
Why it matters: The call — which took place 44 days after Joe Biden was projected victor in Georgia — helped spark the opening of a criminal investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday from conservative groups looking to block student loan forgiveness for some 804,000 borrowers.
Why it matters: The decision marks a win for student loan borrowers and for President Biden, who promised to continue pursuing debt relief after the Supreme Court's decision last month to strike down his administration's loan forgiveness plan.
