Civil Lawsuits Over Jan. 6 Riot Can Advance
Brian Bushard
Apr 18, 2024,04:02pm EDT
Updated Apr 18, 2024, 04:30pm EDT
TOPLINE A federal judge on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s bid to pause three consolidated civil cases stemming from the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, adding to the GOP presidential nominee’s legal battles as his New York criminal trial gets underway.
The lawsuits, brought by a group of Democrats in Congress and Capitol Police officers, may advance, federal District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled, rejecting Trump’s request for a stay in the cases pending the result of a criminal election interference case against him in Washington, D.C.
Plaintiffs in those suits are seeking to hold Trump liable for the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in 2021, and while Trump had previously attempted to have those cases thrown out, that bid was also rejected by a federal appeals court in December, and again by Mehta in February, with Mehta ruling Trump’s claim of presidential immunity was “misleading and wrong as a matter of law.”
Trump has not appealed these cases to the Supreme Court, though the high court is slated to consider his presidential immunity argument in his federal election interference case later this month ...
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