March 12, 2024
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.
March 09, 2022
Rep. Mo Brooks escaped Rep. Eric Swalwell's lawsuit accusing the Republican lawmaker of helping incite the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol after a D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday that Brooks' speech to a crowd was constitutionally protected.
February 18, 2022
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.
January 10, 2022
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.
August 04, 2021
Rep. Mo Brooks has torn into the U.S. Department of Justice for refusing to step in for the Republican lawmaker in a suit accusing him of helping to incite the Jan. 6 insurrection, in an idiosyncratic brief that mentions that he's never done drugs or cheated on his wife.
July 28, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice told a D.C. federal court Tuesday that it wouldn't be defending Rep. Mo Brooks in a lawsuit accusing him of helping to incite the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, saying the Alabama Republican hadn't acted within the scope of his office.
July 06, 2021
A D.C. federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to confirm whether it should defend Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks in a lawsuit accusing him of helping to incite the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, after the Republican insisted he was acting in his official capacity when he sought to block Joe Biden's presidential victory.
July 01, 2021
California congressman Eric Swalwell urged a D.C. federal judge on Thursday to issue a default judgment against Alabama GOP Rep. Mo Brooks, saying the lawmaker he accused of helping to incite the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has failed to timely respond to his lawsuit.
June 08, 2021
A process server U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks has accused of criminal trespassing said in a D.C. federal court filing Tuesday that he followed proper legal procedures when he served the Alabama Republican's wife a lawsuit, which alleges the lawmaker helped incite the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
June 03, 2021
A House Democrat who hired a private investigator to find Rep. Mo Brooks so he could serve the Alabama Republican with a complaint alleging that he helped incite the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 will have another 60 days to track him down.