Donald Trump is still being sued for what he did on January 6, 2021: launching an attack on the United States Capitol to steal a presidential election from the American people. He is still being sued by several police officers who were assaulted that day by his angry mob, and he is still being sued by democratic lawmakers who were under siege that day as a result of the Trump-induced Capitol attack. In that ongoing litigation, Donald Trump asserted that everything he did on and around January 6, 2021, was an official presidential act so he should be immune from being sued.

A federal judge has now rejected Trump's immunity claim, ruling that lawsuit against Donald Trump will move forward toward trial.

This is an important ruling on the accountability front. And it may even serve as foreshadowing for what might happen in the future in the event the January 6 criminal prosecution is reinitiated against Trump once he leaves office.

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In the event you thought things couldn't go from bad to worse in the Epstein debacle, we are starting to hear talk of a possible Trump pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's convicted sex trafficking co-conspirator.

At this stage, the pardon talk seems to be coming primarily from Maxwell's attorney, but this is a deeply troubling development.

Pardoning Maxwell would represent horrific disrespect for the victims of Epstein and Maxwell's crimes, tearing open wounds that may have just begun to heal.

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Donald Trump's dirty DOJ leadership is trying to use federal judges to whitewash the January 6 convictions of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys from the judicial record altogether. And if the judges agree to dismiss those criminal convictions, then Donald Trump's dirty DOJ officials will point to the judicial dismissals as proof that the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys now deserve millions of our taxpayer dollars because they were wrongfully prosecuted.

So - Donald Trump is trying to make federal judges complicit in a scheme to steal taxpayer money and give it to insurrectionists.

To the federal judges we ask you: just say NO! Because justice matters.

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