Backstabber Watch

Former Republican Vice President Mike Pence tops the list of noteworthy potential witnesses who Fulton County prosecutors could put on the witness stand in the 2020 presidential election interference trial for Donald Trump and his co-defendants.

A Washington Post columnist on Friday assailed a legal expert’s defense of Donald Trump in connection to accusations that the former president tried to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election result.

Donald Trump's supporters in "MAGA World" are already urging that Georgia law be changed so the former president – who is loudly declaring his innocence – can be pardoned.

While Trump and his allies publicly scoff that the criminal investigations into him are politically motivated and doomed to fail, Georgia Republicans are privately scared of the investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is probing election interference in that state...

Stefanie Lambert, a Michigan attorney connected to former President Donald Trump, has been indicted for "accessing and tampering with voting machines" as part of the effort to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, the Associated Press' Joey Cappelletti reported...

New clues have emerged that likely indicate the identity of the “mystery” co-conspirator 6 in the indictment against Donald Trump in the election interference case, The New York Times reports.

Former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik has struck a deal with the special counsel Jack Smith to turn over records in connection with the investigation over Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, The Daily Beast reports. 

Reacting to a CNN report that Trump operatives were making plans to use breached voting data to not only undercut the 2020 presidential election results but also to give the GOP control of the Senate, one legal analyst stated the former president's legal woes have just grown exponentially...

Less than 20 days before the 2022 midterm elections, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office confirmed it is investigating a super PAC backing Herschel Walker's Senate campaign for handing out gas and grocery vouchers.

Donald Trump's lawyers directed computer experts to copy sensitive data from Georgia election systems as part of a broad and well-organized effort to access voting equipment in multiple states. 

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump spent an hour on the phone with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) in an attempt to convince the state’s top election official to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state. Even for Trump, it was a remarkable moment...

The first of 19 co-defendants in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' RICO and election interference case against Donald Trump has pleaded guilty in what is being described as a "plea deal."

The Fulton County sheriff's office released mugshots for two Donald Trump allies charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, as two more defendants surrendered to authorities overnight.

A list of 19 people have been indicted on 41 criminal counts involving interference in the 2020 election result, the Fulton County grand jury ruled on Monday. 

Former Donald Trump election fraud advocate Sydney Powell should expect a criminal indictment in the very near future because allies of the former president have been ratting her out to special counsel Jack Smith's investigators.

President Donald Trump is the only person charged — to date — in the special counsel’s indictment for conspiracy and other alleged violations related to the effort to overturn the 2020 election. But the 45-page indictment lists six unnamed co-conspirators...

A judge on Monday rejected an attempt by Donald Trump's legal team to block Fulton County District Attorney Fani Wilis from hitting him with indictments concerning interference in the 2020 presidential election, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. 

Election interference in Georgia should come with a minimum 10-year prison sentence, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told lawmakers in a letter Tuesday.“ Current Georgia law provides that these infractions constitute a felony but with inadequate minimum sentences and fines...

Texts that were sent in 2021 by two men hired by Donald Trump's legal team reveal that not only did Trump's allies consider using voting data to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, but also to keep Republican control of the U.S. Senate, CNN reported on Friday. 

With the 2022 midterms less than a month away, election administrators in Texas and elsewhere continue to face a level of harassment and threats that experts say had never been experienced before the November 2020 presidential election.

Lawfare editor Quinta Jurecic wrote a harsh editorial for The Atlantic Monday arguing that the efforts to harm American democracy deserve far greater punishments than the political ramifications they’re dealing with currently. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner agreed, noting that “if accountability does not come, then we are slouching toward the end of our republic.” […]