President Donald Trump sparked concerns among critics about the integrity of the race in comments he made just before Inauguration Day.

The state bar had sought to sanction Paxton, which could have carried a punishment ranging from a private reprimand to disbarment.

The ethics commission of the State Bar of Texas had sued Paxton for making dishonest claims of election fraud in a 2020 challenge to Biden's victory.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years of sweeping repressions.

Bondi’s statement represented both a refusal to admit Trump lost and an attempt to erase the mob violence Trump unleashed on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which made the transfer of power from Trump to Biden a bit less than peaceful.

Four years after trying to overturn Trump’s defeat, the prospective attorney general nominee still won’t answer core questions about the 2020 election.

Bondi’s refusal to acknowledge the legitimate results of the 2020 election demonstrates her deep loyalty to Trump.

on Wednesday about whether President-elect Trump lost the 2020 election. Bondi echoed other Republicans ... “President Biden is the president of the United States. He was duly sworn in, and he is the president of the United States. There was a peaceful ...

Durbin also inquired as to her position on possible pardons for Jan. 6 participants. Bondi indicated that pardons fell under the president's purview but that she would advise Trump on a "case by case basis.

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Pam Bondi fell silent, refusing to answer, when a senator pressed her on whether Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election. The confirmation hearing for Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general was dominated by questions about Bondi’s independence from the president-elect.

Charlevoix resident John Haggard, 84, remains at the center of a high-profile legal battle stemming from his role as one of Michigan’s false electors following the 2020 presidential election.