The ethics commission of the State Bar of Texas had sued Paxton for making dishonest claims of election fraud in a 2020 challenge to Biden's victory.
Pam Bondi fell silent, refusing to answer, when a senator pressed her on whether Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. The confirmation hearing for Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general was dominated by questions about Bondi’s independence from the president-elect.
The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.
President Donald Trump sparked concerns among critics about the integrity of the race in comments he made just before Inauguration Day.
The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations that his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professi
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.
on Wednesday about whether President-elect Trump lost the 2020 election. Bondi echoed other Republicans ... “President Biden is the president of the United States. He was duly sworn in, and he is the president of the United States. There was a peaceful ...
Four years after trying to overturn Trump’s defeat, the prospective attorney general nominee still won’t answer core questions about the 2020 election.
U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith concluded that Donald Trump engaged in an "unprecedented criminal effort" to hold on to power after losing the 2020 election, but was thwarted in bringing the case to trial by the president-elect's November election victory.
What’s old is new again. President Donald Trump has returned to the White House, and his new administration is already acting with a vigor that eluded former President Joe Biden for most of his forgettable term.
The Tennessean’s proposed 28th Amendment would bar the president from pardoning himself, his close relatives (and their spouses), members of his administration, and those who worked on his campaign staff. These restrictions are straightforward and easy to interpret and would have eliminated many of the most egregious pardons by Biden.
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