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Lawyers for Donald Trump's co-defendants argued Friday that the state has no power to bring charges against them for being fake electors, USA Today reported.

According to the legal team, the fake electors cannot be tried by the state because such a matter, according to the Constitution, should be resolved by Congress. But Fulton County prosecutors say states have always monitored how elections are handled at the local level.

Donald Trump lost his immunity bid to avoid a lawsuit seeking to hold him responsible for violence during the Jan. 6 insurrection, and legal experts explained what that meant for the former president.

An appeals court rejected Trump's argument that he should be protected from lawsuits over the U.S. Capitol attack because he was president at the time, although the judges said that he could try to claim immunity again later in the case.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, ex-senior adviser to Melania Trump, discussed her relationship with the former first lady in her 2020 book "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady." Now, she is speaking out about another Trump family-related matter — a lawsuit involving a former employee of one of Donald Trump's properties.

In the lawsuit — which was filed on Wednesday, November 29 — Alice Bianco alleges that she was sexually harassed while working at the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey and illegally tricked into signing a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) by Trump lawyer Alina Habba.

Donald Trump's lawyers have been scrambling to introduce evidence of alleged bias against the former president in his New York fraud case — but they haven't cited a single claim their client has been making on social media.

A spokesperson for New York's Office of Court Administration confirmed that Judge Arthur Engoron's wife never posted on social media about the former president, who had amplified posts by a right-wing influencer who had claimed the spouse had criticized Trump and called for his prosecution.

An appeals court ruled Friday that former President Donald Trump can be sued for his role in inciting the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a short release announcing the decision, Judges Sri Srinivasan, Greg Katsas, and Judith Rogers affirmed the order of a lower district court that denied a motion to dismiss litigation against Trump.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear appeals from defendants charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The justices are scheduled to consider three different appeals at their regular private meeting Friday of defendants charged with obstructing an official proceeding, which is one of the charges on which Donald Trump has been indicted in his federal election interference case, reported NBC News.

Steven Sadow, former President Donald Trump's attorney in the Georgia election racketeering case, is planning a new move that could unveil his long-term defense strategy, the New York Times reported.

Unlike many of the more flamboyant legal defenders of the former president, Sadow has remained largely out of the spotlight as the case has advanced. But that could be about to change, reported Richard Fausset.

As GOP lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House ramp up their investigation of Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, there is a growing appetite among some Democrats to use their control of the Senate to hold hearings on the hundreds of millions made by Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner while they served in the White House for four years.

According to a report from the New Republic's Mark Hosenball, Democrats would be well served by opening hearings on the couple as a counterpoint to the Biden investigations being headed by Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and James Comer (R-KY) — and the Democrats already have the goods to proceed.

One Democratic insider told the TNR journalist that some "Democrats simply have other priorities, including a robust policy agenda, that they want to focus on" and added that "there’s no evidence to suggest that additional investigations of Trump would damage or influence his political prospects."