May 21, 2026
A top Trump administration attorney told the D.C. federal judge overseeing a slate of consolidated Jan. 6 civil suits against President Donald Trump and others Thursday that the president’s immunity from civil litigation should halt all discovery in the suits, even as it pertains to other defendants.
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The plaintiffs are represented by Joseph M. Sellers, Alison Sarah Deich, Brian Christopher Corman, Alisa Tiwari and Nina Jaffe-Geffner of Cohen Milstein Sellers& Toll, Edward G. Caspar, Jeffrey Blumberg and Marc D. Epstein of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Faith E. Gay, Joshua S. Margolin and Babak Ghafarzade of Selendy Gay PLLC, and William J. Blechman, Elizabeth B. Honkonen and Jeffrey Todd Foreman of Sperling Kenny Nachwalter, among others.