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Donald Trump's attorneys saw a direct appeal to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as their best hope of derailing Joe Biden's win in the 2020 ...

19 ruling](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/judge-trump-signed-court-document-that-knowingly-included-false-voter-fraud-stats-00062577) that the emails must be disclosed to the House Jan. Carter said Trump signed the verification to a federal court complaint under penalty of perjury despite evidence that he’d been told many of the fraud claims in the lawsuit were inaccurate. “There’s no one they can call to come to the White House that’s a notary?” Chris Gardner, a Virginia attorney and former GOP House aide assisting the president’s legal team, asked in an email sent just before 4 P.M. FBI agents seized Eastman’s cell phone in June as part of a wide-ranging investigation related to efforts by Trump allies to undermine the election results. 31, 2020, federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Georgia, including acute concerns Trump’s lawyers voiced during that chaotic period that Trump might put himself in legal jeopardy if he attested to the voter fraud data contained in it. It’s unclear how the other attorney responded to Eastman. 11 order](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/11/supreme-court-rejects-texas-led-effort-to-overturn-bidens-victory-444638) where the court rejected a bid by Texas to challenge the vote counts in four other states. But they also debated whether the federal complaint should “incorporate by reference” the voter fraud data included in an earlier state-level lawsuit. Federal prosecutors have also scrutinized Eastman, who pleaded the Fifth in testimony to the Jan. Eastman’s emails, which he has fought to keep from the select committee, have yielded some of the most potent evidence against Trump’s team — including a March 28 ruling from a federal judge declaring it likely that Trump and Eastman had criminally conspired to subvert the election. 6 session of Congress — a legally required proceeding to count electoral votes and certify the election results. 6 select committee, as well as prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., who are investigating Trump’s efforts to subvert the election there.

Efrain Galicia and several other protesters had filed a civil suit alleging Trump's security guards roughed them up in 2015.

[filed](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/22/new-york-fraud-suit-trump-organization-letitia-james) civil fraud suit claiming extensive financial wrongdoing related to real estate valuations. The parties also did release a brief, joint statement stating that they “have settled the matter and the action has been dismissed upon stipulation of all parties”. [Efrain Galicia](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/15/donald-trump-testimony-new-york-protesters-security-guard) and several other protesters filed a civil suit in the Bronx about seven years ago over the alleged incident. Trump is also battling a [defamation suit](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/19/trump-testifies-e-jean-carroll-rape-lawsuit) brought by E Jean Carroll. We are very pleased with this outcome and are happy to finally put this matter to rest once and for all.” [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump)’s security guards roughed them up outside during a September 2015 protest outside his eponymous Manhattan skyscraper settled their lawsuit just before a trial for this case was to begin in earnest.

Former President Donald Trump and his company settled a lawsuit alleging his security assaulted a group of men protesting Trump's rhetoric outside of Trump ...

The lawsuit was delayed for years in part because Trump was president. The delays ended after he left office, and last fall, Trump sat for a four-and-a-half hour videotaped deposition. “We are very pleased with this outcome and are happy to finally put this matter to rest once and for all.”

John Eastman also suggested in a newly disclosed batch of emails that getting the case in front of Justice Clarence Thomas would be the most likely route to ...

Mr. Trump and Mr. Eastman’s phone](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/27/us/politics/john-eastman-jan-6.html) as part of what appears to be a broad grand jury inquiry into Mr. The committee has fought for months to get access to hundreds of Mr. The new batch of emails also shows an intense effort to get Mr. 31 email to Mr. Eastman conceded during a conversation with Vice President Mike Pence’s top lawyer, Greg Jacob, that his arguments about overturning the election would fail before the Supreme Court, according to Mr. “We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt,” another lawyer working on Mr. In them, the lawyers focused on adopting a strategy to get their arguments in front of Justice Clarence Thomas. The warning came at a time when some members of Mr. He did so only after his lawyers added a caveat to the suit, telling the court that the voter fraud figures they used were to be relied upon “only to the extent” that “such information has been provided” to Mr. Trump in office warned in late December 2020 that if Mr.

Some candidates are already questioning the integrity of the vote and undermining the credibility of the results.

[124 candidates](https://principledcandidates.org/supporters/) in the November elections have so far pledged to adopt the principles. “I’m going to win the election and I’m going to accept that result,” she said. [five core principles](https://principledcandidates.org/) to uphold trusted elections. Mark Finchem, the Republican running for secretary of state, led the push to decertify Biden’s victory in Arizona and was present at the US Capitol on January 6. Similar signs of Republican candidates manoeuvring for possible mischief can be seen in other swing states that were at the epicentre of Trump’s efforts to destroy democracy. The center’s democracy experts decided months before the 2020 election that the chaos surrounding then President Trump’s campaign merited their attention. But the fact that so many candidates are already laying down objections in a repetition of Trump’s 2020 tactics suggests there may be trouble ahead. If election deniers lose their elections by narrow margins we can expect that they will reject the results and refuse to accept them,” said Fred Wertheimer, president of the non-partisan group Democracy 21. All four of its Republican candidates in statewide races – Lake, together with the nominees for US Senate, attorney general and secretary of state – are out-and-out election deniers. Masters has been telling supporters on the campaign trail to look out for The US president called them “extremists” and warned that they were preparing to repeat their subversion efforts in November’s midterm elections. Lake is one of several prominent election deniers who have dropped hints – some subtle, others blatant – that they might mimic Trump’s anti-democratic tactics in their own elections just days away.

Emails show ex-president's attorney saying justice was 'our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion' by 6 January.

Speaking to January 6 investigators behind closed doors, Thomas indicated that she still believes Trump’s baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, committee chair Bennie Thompson told reporters. [spoke to January 6 investigators](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/29/ginni-thomas-clarence-thomas-testifies-january-6) in late September, after her communications with Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, were made public. “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!” Thomas wrote in a text message sent on 10 November, after news networks had called the election for Biden. US district judge David O Carter ruled late last month that several of Eastman’s documents should be made public, as they demonstrated how Trump’s allies participated in a “knowing misrepresentation of voter-fraud numbers in Georgia when seeking to overturn the election results in federal court”. Three counts of Georgia’s 2020 ballots confirmed that Biden defeated Trump in the battleground state by roughly 12,000 votes. The ensuing violence resulted in the deaths of seven people, according to a bipartisan Senate report.