Jack Smith

Many of Donald Trump's critics, from Never Trump conservative Charlie Sykes to "Real Time" host Bill Maher, have been warning that the 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner could provoke a constitutional crisis.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama, in a recent interview for the podcast "On Purpose," told host Jay Shetty that she is "terrified about what could possibly happen" in this year's election and warned, "We cannot take this democracy for granted."

Donald Trump’s new argument that he should be immune from being criminally tried in Jack Smith’s election interference case because he’s already been acquitted in an impeachment hearing is a “stone cold loser,” an expert said Tuesday.

CNN’s legal analyst Elie Honig was talking as Trump arrived in a Washington, D.C. appeals court to hear his lawyers argue that he should have political immunity in the case because he was acting his official capacity as president.

Donald Trump's co-defendant, Michael Roman, is attempting to stop the Georgia case with a new filing that legal experts characterize as worse than a Hail Mary.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday that in a filing, Roman alleges that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired an alleged romantic partner to work on her team and that she financially benefitted from "the clandestine personal relationship."

Special counsel Jack Smith now has clear and devastating insight into former President Donald Trump's intent and mental state during the attack on the U.S. Capitol, argued former House January 6 Committee investigator Tim Heaphy on MSNBC Monday.

This comes amid new reporting that a key Trump campaign official gave Smith testimony that Trump didn't care if the violence at the Capitol stopped.

While many in the world were celebrating the birth of Christ, followers of Donald Trump planned a "swatting" attack on special counsel Jack Smith.

NBC News reported Monday evening that two law enforcement sources confirmed someone called police pretending to be from Smith's home and claiming there was an attack. The goal of the attacker is to rile up police enough that they might shoot first and ask questions later, accidently killing the target or someone in the target's family.

Pro-Trump attorney Jenna Ellis' apology letter she was ordered to write as part of the conditions of her plea deal in the Georgia election racketeering case has been released — and it is incredibly short, with a single line apologizing for her actions.

"To the people of Georgia: I apologize for my actions that gave rise to this indictment. Sincerely, Jenna Ellis," read the letter in its entirety, according to Tamar Hallerman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Former President Donald Trump was the subject of a brutal fact-check Monday after legal experts found his election flier claims that his court cases were keeping him from the campaign trail.

MSNBC legal expert Lisa Rubin took to the airwaves Monday to explain Trump doesn't have to appear in court this week for his cases after an email to supporters went viral.

Special counsel Jack Smith has a more compelling case than ever in the election conspiracy prosecution of former President Donald Trump, one-time federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said on MSNBC Monday.

This comes amid new bombshell reporting that Dan Scavino, a longtime Trump associate, told investigators the former president "was just not interested" in doing more to stop the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

New evidence obtaind by special counsel Jack Smith "signals a turning point for the prosecution against Donald Trump," Slate reported.

According to former federal prosecutor Dennis Aftergut, "The new evidence will be kryptonite" to Donald Trump's defense.

In his election interference case against Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith is trying to show how the former president responded when the U.S. Capitol Building was under attack on January 6, 2021. Smith, according to ABC News, has uncovered new details about that response — details that ABC News' Jonathan Karl discussed during a Monday appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

Karl told conservative host Joe Scarborough, "These are really the defining hours of the Trump presidency: what Trump was doing in the White House while the attack was underway. We've heard from Liz Cheney; we've heard from others. But now, what the special counsel has done is they've methodically gone through and spoken to everybody who was with Trump during that time — people that refused to talk to the January 6 Committee, like Dan Scavino, perhaps Trump's closest aide in the White House."

Donald Trump is facing a big week in court, but he faces a "steep uphill climb" in his effort to escape prosecution in the Washington, D.C., election subversion case, according to an expert.

The former president has asked an appeals court to grant him broad immunity in that case and others, arguing that he was acting in his official capacity as president when he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss.