The Trump Docket: A window into Trump's 'private' acts on Jan. 6 may soon be opened by judge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Trump wants the records shielded.
49% : Sellers said while Trump may have used the account to issue official messages, like firings or hirings, it was still a personal account.
48% : If the judge rules against Trump, the plaintiffs' yearslong wait could prove well worth it.
46% : Many of the documents they want are in the public record already, so Trump should have no problem complying with those requests, at minimum, he said.
44% : Sellers acknowledged that while the content of what Trump said at the Ellipse is "not supposed to be dispositive," it was still profoundly relevant.
43% : CIVILAs Trump appeals, the saga over his bond in his civil fraud judgment continues.
42% : Very soon, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., is expected to issue a ruling that could expose key pieces of discovery that some lawyers say prove Donald Trump acted in his "private" capacity on Jan. 6, 2021 -- not in his official role -- when whipping up a mob of his supporters at the Ellipse and urging them to descend on the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify the 2020 election.
38% : The evidence of his conduct when taken as a whole on Jan. 6, the lawyer told Law&Crime, makes it clear he wasn't acting officially:The event at the Ellipse that preceded the crowd descending on the Capitol -- all assembled and fired up by Trump -- was organized by a private organization, not the official White House administration.
35% : Trump argues the overlap between the civil claim and his criminal indictment prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith is too great and that going to trial, or even beginning pretrial proceedings like discovery, would threaten his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
35% : There is a chance Mehta will not grant the full stay as Trump has asked.
30% : Trump called for Merchan's recusal first in June 2023, arguing the judge could not be impartial since his daughter worked as a Democratic Party-affiliated consultant for Authentic Campaigns, Inc.
24% : Trump has tried to shut down the trial eight times so far and according to Bragg, he should never be rewarded "perverse" attempts to stop proceedings.
23% : The burden of proof is on Trump, he said.
22% : But Trump tried taking a second bite of the apple since, according to attorney Todd Blanche, Merchan's daughter as recently as last month used social media at her job to "market its connections" to President Joe Biden while "deriding President Trump," he claims.
18% : This is a key distinction for a group of former and current U.S. lawmakers and police suing Trump for violations of the Ku Klux Klan Act, as Law&Crime previously reported.
15% : Legal analyst Andrew Weissman meanwhile has said revoking bail for Trump should be considered after Trump shared a video online of a supporter's pickup truck displaying an image of a hogtied President Joe Biden on its tailgate.

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