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  1. March 12, 2024

    Trump Says Riot Suits Must Wait On Justices' Immunity Ruling

    Federal lawmakers and Capitol police officers suing Donald Trump over the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol are facing the potential for further delay in the litigation as the former president argues the suits cannot proceed while the U.S. Supreme Court reviews of his claim for immunity from criminal prosecution.

  2. February 18, 2022

    Trump Can't Escape Riot Suits But Don Jr., Giuliani Do

    A D.C. federal judge on Friday rejected former President Donald Trump's claim that he has "absolute immunity" from a trio of lawsuits seeking to hold him liable for inciting last year's deadly U.S. Capitol attack, saying the evidence shows that he assembled and directed thousands of supporters to march to the Capitol.

  3. January 10, 2022

    Judge Wants To 'Draw The Line' In Trump Riot Immunity Claim

    A D.C. federal judge pushed back Monday on former President Donald Trump's claim that he has "absolute immunity" from three suits seeking to hold him and others liable for inciting last year's deadly U.S. Capitol attack and called into question Trump's long delay in calling off his supporters who carried out the riot.

  4. July 21, 2021

    House Dem Leaves Capitol Riot Suit Against Trump

    The House Democrat who initiated a civil rights lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and others over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has withdrawn from the case "to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest" as he leads a new committee investigating the attack.

  5. July 19, 2021

    Rioters Didn't Stop Congress On Jan. 6, Militia Says

    The Oath Keepers militia group said Monday that members of Congress could not sue over the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot because the lawmakers were the ones who interrupted the Electoral College certification with an emergency adjournment as rioters were attacking the Capitol.

  6. July 08, 2021

    Law Professors Say Trump Not Immune To Capitol Riot Suits

    Former President Donald Trump cannot use "absolute immunity" or the First Amendment to avoid lawsuits over his alleged role in spurring the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, constitutional law professors told a D.C. federal judge on Thursday.

  7. July 02, 2021

    Dem Reps. Say Trump, Giuliani Can't Escape Capitol Riot Suit

    Democratic members of Congress have rejected claims by former President Donald Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani that they can avoid lawsuits concerning the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol thanks to the First Amendment or "absolute immunity" for presidents.

  8. May 27, 2021

    Trump, Giuliani Say Reps. Can't Sue Over Capitol Riot

    Former President Donald Trump, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and the far-right militia group Oath Keepers separately asked a D.C. federal judge Wednesday to toss Democratic lawmakers' lawsuit over the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.

  9. February 16, 2021

    Cohen Milstein Reps Lawmaker Suing Trump For Capitol Riot

    Attorneys at Cohen Milstein and the NAACP are representing a Democratic lawmaker who sued former President Donald Trump and others on Tuesday for allegedly causing the deadly Capitol riot in January and violating the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act.

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