Two attorneys for then-President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory there and in other swing states, according to a lawsuit settlement reached Monday that makes public months of texts and emails.
The former chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded guilty Monday to perjury charges related to his testimony in the New York attorney general's probe of the real estate company's finances.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, criticized the Supreme Court for delaying the decision to take up former President Donald Trump's immunity claim because it will delay the beginning of his other criminal cases.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that Donald Trump cannot be stripped from the GOP primary ballot in Colorado over claims he engaged in insurrection, delivering a victory to the former president a day before the Super Tuesday contests that look to cement him as his party's nominee.
The former chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg, is expected to plead guilty Monday to perjury charges over testimony he provided to New York Attorney General Letitia James during her investigation into the finances of former President Donald Trump's real estate company.