According to the Just Security online forum, which tracks pending litigation against Trump, at least 13 legal proceedings, including Swalwell's and Thompson's, have been opened against the disgraced 45th President. They involve both civil lawsuits and criminal investigations.
On the civil side, the most prominent actions are the defamation cases filed by alleged sexual assault victims E. Jean Carroll and Summer Zervos; the fraud complaint filed by Mary Trump, the ex-president's niece; and the investigation initiated by New York Attorney General Letitia James into Trump's business practices.
The pending criminal investigations include the longstanding grand-jury probe led by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. focused on tax, banking, and insurance fraud; the investigation opened by the Attorney General of the District of Columbia into Trump's role in the January 6 insurrection; and the inquiry launched by the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, into Trump's attempt to interfere in the 2020 election.
In the meantime, Trump remains a free man. Holed up in Mar-a-Lago, he has beaten two impeachment trials and shows no signs of admitting guilt or taking responsibility for the events of January 6 or any other act of malfeasance.
Still, there is reason to be optimistic that, sooner rather than later, the rule of law will prevail.
Vance's investigation in particular appears to have entered a critical phase due to an order issued by the Supreme Court last month that cleared the way for the Manhattan DA to obtain a trove of financial documents, including tax returns, from Trump's accounting firm. It would not be at all surprising to see an indictment handed down in the coming months, before New York's general five-year statute of limitations expires on any potential offenses.
Nor would it be surprising, as Professor Tribe remarked on MSNBC, to see other members of Congress or law enforcement personnel injured in the insurrection suing Trump for damages, modeling their cases after the complaints filed by Swalwell and Thompson.
The bottom line is that it is far too early to give up on the fight to bring Trump to justice. When democracy itself is on the line, as it is in much of the Trump litigation, giving up is never an option.
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