Election 2020

FILE – Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is photographed in her office in Atlanta, on Jan. 4, 2022. Willis, the prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia has indicated that she’s interested in a breach of voting equipment in a county about 200 miles south of her Atlanta office. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File) WX115 WX115

September 2, 2022 at 3:01 pm

Prosecutor: Trump ally arranged meeting with poll worker

A Georgia prosecutor says a poll worker was pressured and threatened with imprisonment during a meeting arranged with the help of an ally of the...

FILE – Chapman School of Law professor John Eastman testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 16, 2017, at a House Justice subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet hearing on restructuring the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Jan. 6 committee is scheduled to probe the pressure Donald Trump put on his vice president, Mike Pence, to stop Joe Bidenâ€™s victory. Thursday’s hearing is expected to highlight a highly unorthodox proposal from conservative law professor John Eastman. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) WX105 WX105

August 31, 2022 at 12:58 pm

Lawyers: Eastman advised to plead the Fifth in Georgia probe

John Eastman's lawyers say they advised him to remain silent when testifying before a grand jury investigating possible election interference in Georgia.

August 26, 2022 at 3:45 pm

Trump election probe in Georgia cites voting system breach

The prosecutor investigating alleged attempts to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about a breach of county voting equipment.

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, arrives to watch Amy Coney Barrett take the Constitutional Oath on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Ginni Thomas is using her Facebook page to amplify unsubstantiated claims of corruption by Joe Biden. She is a longtime conservative activist who asked her more than 10,000 followers Oct. 26, 2020, to consider sharing a link focused on alleged corruption by Biden and his son, Hunter, as well as claims that social media companies are censoring reports about the Bidens. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) WX121

June 10, 2022 at 9:35 am

Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Arizona lawmakers to help overturn Trump’s defeat, emails show

The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pressed 29 GOP state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside...

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell attends a campaign rally at the Westmoreland Fair Grounds in Greensburg, Pa, Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) PAGP PAGP

May 20, 2022 at 11:20 am

MyPillow’s Lindell sanctioned over ‘frivolous’ election lawsuits

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was ordered to pay legal fees and costs incurred by a voting technology firm he accused in a “frivolous” lawsuit of...

FILE – Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, arrives to watch Amy Coney Barrett take the Constitutional Oath on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington,Oct. 26, 2020, after Barrett was confirmed by the Senate earlier in the evening. Virginia Thomas sent a series of increasingly urgent text messages imploring White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to act to overturn the 2020 presidential election according to copies of the messages obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) WX123 WX123

March 24, 2022 at 4:30 pm

Report: Justice Thomas’ wife urged overturning 2020 election

Virginia Thomas sent weeks of text messages imploring White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to act to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

FILE – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., presides during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 7, 2021, in Washington. The House Oversight Committee is opening an investigation into a partisan audit of the 2020 election results that took place in New Mexico and was authorized by a Republican-led county commission. (Bill Clark/Pool via AP, File) WX104 WX104

March 17, 2022 at 9:52 am

House panel launches probe of New Mexico 2020 election audit

An oversight committee has opened an investigation into a partisan audit of the 2020 election results that is taking place in New Mexico.

Poll workers gather before counting ballots during the 2020 general election at the TCF Center in Detroit on Nov. 3, 2020. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Salwan Georges

February 9, 2022 at 10:55 am

Giuliani asked me to give voting machines to Trump team, says Michigan prosecutor

The Trump legal team was part of an intervention that helped twist a mistake in one small county’s reporting of results into supposed proof of...

FILE — Rudy Giuliani, then President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, listens as Trump speaks during a news briefing in the White House in Washington, Sept. 27, 2020. New accounts show that Trump was more directly involved than previously known in exploring proposals to use his national security agencies to seize voting machines as he grasped unsuccessfully for evidence of fraud that would help him reverse his defeat in the 2020 election, according to people familiar with the episodes. (Al Drago/The New York Times) XNYT169 XNYT169

February 1, 2022 at 10:40 am

Trump had role in weighing proposals to seize voting machines

New accounts show that then-President Trump was more directly involved than previously known in exploring how to seize voting machines after his 2020 election defeat.

December 23, 2021 at 2:44 pm

Georgia election workers sue One America News, Giuliani over fraud claims

Two Georgia election workers are suing a right-wing cable news channel and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani over false claims the workers engaged...