Trump swore to uphold the Constitution in January 2017. He violated that oath in January 2021. Now, in January 2025, he will swear it again. The ritual survives. Its meaning has been lost. In 2022, a prominent conservative intellectual proclaimed that the United States had entered a “post-Constitutional moment”:

The evidence wJack Smith’s 137-page report, released overnight less than one week before Trump will be sworn in for a second term as president, is a full-throated justification of his investigation and defense against his myriad critics.

Trump allegedly tried to keep Mike Pence mentally isolated and said people would "hate his guts" if he certified Biden's 2020 win.

The special counsel's report concludes the criminal investigation that brought charges against a former president for the first time.

The first part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his now-closed investigations into President-elect Trump was released Tuesday, days before he will be sworn into office.

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump over the 2020 election has ... to interfere with the 2024 presidential election through outlandish charges ...

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he was "deeply disturbed" by some of Bondi's responses during the hearing, particular her earlier not answering directly when asked whether Trump lost the 2020 election.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has indicated he plans to publicly release the volume of Smith’s report detailing his election-related investigation.

Trump ‘inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence’ on January 6 using false claims he knew to be untrue, says just-released report on his attempts to upend the 2020 presidential elect

Special counsel Jack Smith argued that Donald Trump could have been convicted for trying to overturn the 2020 election if he hadn't been re-elected. His report claims Trump used knowingly false election fraud claims to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power and highlights challenges faced during the investigation.

In the time between his two presidential ... of Justice, Smith ended both cases in November. This week, Smith's report pertaining to Trump's conduct after losing the 2020 election was released.

Donald Trump would have been convicted for his "criminal efforts" to retain power after the 2020 ... election results, Smith said, and on January 6 he directed "an angry mob to the United States ...