Anti-Americans
Officials who held power and used it against the system they swore to serve. This register keeps two separate records, and one should not be read as the other. The first is the 2020 election and January 6: the votes against certifying, the brief asking the Court to set aside four states' results, the denials and the pardons. The second is conduct in the 47th presidency — against courts, inspectors general, elected prosecutors, libraries, the civil service and the press, and in the treatment of people inside the country and of allies outside it. Being filed for the second is not an accusation of the first. Each entry says which it is, with the date and the document.
The register in chronological order
Every entry in this register rests on something that happened on a particular day. Laid end to end they read as a sequence rather than a list, which is how the pattern becomes visible. Undated claims are not filed here.
The 45th presidency
Entry suspension ordered by executive order
An executive order suspends entry of nationals of seven designated countries. It is enjoined, rewritten twice, and the third version is sustained by the Supreme Court in 2018.
Zero-tolerance prosecution directed at the southern border
Federal prosecutors along the southwest border are directed to prosecute all improper-entry offenses referred by DHS. Separation of children from accompanying adults follows from the policy.
First impeachment
The House adopts two articles of impeachment arising from the withholding of appropriated security assistance to Ukraine. The Senate acquits on both articles in February 2020.
The call to the Georgia Secretary of State
The president presses Georgia's Secretary of State over the state's certified result and asks him to find votes sufficient to reverse it. The call is recorded by participants and released with a transcript.
The Capitol is attacked during the electoral count
A crowd addressed at the Ellipse marches to the Capitol and breaches the building during the joint session certifying the electoral count. Officers are injured defending it. The president does not ask the crowd to leave for over three hours.
Objections to certified electoral votes are pressed after the building is cleared
Objections to Arizona's and Pennsylvania's certified electoral votes are debated and voted on in both chambers after the Capitol is secured. The Congressional Record carries every member's vote by name.
Second impeachment — incitement of insurrection
The House adopts a single article of impeachment for incitement of insurrection one week after the attack. Ten Republican members vote in favor.
Out of office
Acquittal in the second impeachment trial
Fifty-seven senators vote to convict and forty-three to acquit, short of the two-thirds required. The minority leader's floor statement immediately afterwards describes the president as practically and morally responsible.
The FBI searches Mar-a-Lago
More than a hundred documents bearing classification markings are found at the former president's residence, two months after his attorney certified that all classified material had been returned.
The Select Committee publishes its final report
The Committee's findings are published with supporting materials, witness transcripts and exhibits.
Nineteen are indicted in Fulton County
A Georgia grand jury charges the former president and eighteen others with racketeering over the effort to overturn the state's 2020 result. Four plead guilty. The case is dropped in November 2025 after the district attorney is disqualified, without a trial.
Thirty-four felony convictions
A unanimous jury convicts on all counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
The Supreme Court recognizes immunity for official acts
The Court holds that a former President has absolute immunity for acts within his core constitutional authority, presumptive immunity for other official acts, and none for unofficial acts, remanding for that line to be drawn.
The classified documents prosecution is dismissed
A judge appointed by the defendant dismisses the Espionage Act prosecution on the ground that the special counsel's appointment was unconstitutional, without reaching the evidence. The appeal was dropped after the 2024 election and no court ruled on the conduct.
The 47th presidency
Congress certifies the 2024 result
The joint session counts 312 electoral votes to 226, with the defeated vice president presiding. Four years to the day after the attack on the same proceeding.
Clemency for the Capitol attack, on the first day of the term
A proclamation commutes the sentences of fourteen named individuals to time served and grants a full and unconditional pardon to all others convicted of offenses related to January 6, 2021. The Attorney General is directed to dismiss pending indictments with prejudice and the Bureau of Prisons to release those held.
The Oval Office meeting with Zelenskyy
The Ukrainian president is confronted in front of the press by the president and vice president, told it is "disrespectful" to "litigate this in front of the American media" and asked whether he has "said thank you once". The rest of the visit is cancelled and the minerals agreement goes unsigned. Military aid was suspended days later and restored a week after that.
Iranian nuclear sites struck by American bombers
Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan are struck. No authorization for the use of military force was sought from Congress.
The Court restricts nationwide injunctions
Trump v. CASA, six to three: federal courts likely cannot issue universal injunctions. The birthright citizenship order was left enforceable against anyone who had not personally sued. The Court struck that order down a year later in Trump v. Barbara.
Putin received on a red carpet in Alaska
The Russian president is welcomed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson with a red carpet and a military flyover, under an International Criminal Court warrant outstanding since 2023. The meeting produced no ceasefire.
The East Wing demolished for a ballroom
Demolition begins after 123 years. The president says of the cost: "I'm paying for it. The country is not." The estimate had risen from $200 million in July to about $300 million by the day demolition began.
Troops withdrawn from NATO's eastern flank
The rotational brigade in Romania is not maintained. The Republican chairs of both armed services committees say they "strongly oppose the decision" and that "it is concerning that Congress was not consulted in advance".
The enhanced health insurance subsidies lapse
The enhanced marketplace premium tax credits expire at the end of 2025 and are not renewed. The Affordable Care Act was not repealed; the help that made its premiums payable was allowed to run out. The Congressional Budget Office estimated 2.2 million more people uninsured in 2026 and an average of 3.8 million a year through 2034.
Combined operations opened against Iran
The United States and Israel open major operations against Iran. Congress has not declared war and has enacted no authorization for the use of military force.
The Voting Rights Act narrowed
Louisiana v. Callais, six to three: a map giving Black voters a second opportunity district is held an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and Section 2 of the 1965 Act is read to require proof that a State drew its districts to disadvantage minority voters on purpose.
Humphrey's Executor overruled
Trump v. Slaughter, six to three: the Federal Trade Commission's for-cause removal protection is held contrary to the separation of powers, and the heads of the independent agencies become removable at will. The Federal Reserve was excepted.
The Court refuses to hear the Carroll appeal
Review of the five million dollar verdict is denied, leaving standing the 2023 jury finding that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll. The separate 83.3 million dollar defamation judgment remained under appeal.
The birthright citizenship order struck down
Trump v. Barbara: children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are subject to its jurisdiction and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Trade talks with Canada collapse and fifty per cent tariffs take effect
The tariffs take effect at midnight on about twenty billion dollars of Canadian goods. Canada announced matching duties. Asked why it looked as though Canada was going to war with the United States, its prime minister answered: "Because we were attacked."
Advertisements promoting the president paid for from public funds
Television advertisements carrying the line that they were paid for by the U.S. government are funded with Customs and Border Protection money weeks before the midterm elections. The Senate majority leader said: "It's a great message... but it shouldn't be paid for with taxpayer dollars."