Former U.S. President Donald Trump suffered a pair of legal setbacks on Thursday as judges spurned his calls to dismiss criminal charges over efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in Georgia and his keeping classified records after leaving office.
Separately, one of the Republican presidential candidate's allies, former Justice Department official attorney Jeffrey Clark, faced the risk of disbarment after a Washington panel found he violated some attorney ethics rules in his attempts to enlist the agency to help overturn Trump's loss.
Those cases represent just some of the legal entanglements facing Trump, who has been criminally charged in four cases as he challenges Democratic President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election, with the first-ever trial of a sitting or former U.S. president due to get underway in New York on April 15.