Every node is an entity or actor from cases or investigative articles. Lines connect to parties adjacently and surface the broader connections. Click a node to focus in on who connects to what, then click on external links for deeper research.
Type a name to find it. Every name is pulled mechanically from case captions, ledger entries and the article corpus — nobody has decided in advance what connects to what. The number is how many records are on file. Selecting a name filters the case list, the ledger and the map to it at once.
Paste a list of names or terms (one per line, or comma-separated). Each gets checked against every case and ledger entry — this tells you what's actually there and what isn't, rather than relying on memory of what you've already looked up.
What's tracked below is what's actually new: the specific rulings, appointments, and dismantlements that followed January 6th, across this president's first and second terms — escalating, cross-referenced, and click-through to the full record. The legal theory behind it is decades old; what's happened with it since Jan. 6 is not. (The 90-year legal backstory is below, collapsed, for anyone who wants the deeper context — it's background, not the headline.)
A tactic is a move observable across cases. Every instance below cites a dated docket fact. None asserts motive or causation — that is the discipline, and it is what lets these stand where a court may not inquire into intent. The worked/failed tally is the measure: a move that fails as often as it works is ordinary litigation, not capture.
A case index only sees the parties who litigated. That is a selection effect strong enough to invert a finding: the law firm executive orders produced four lawsuits and nine settlements, and the case record above holds only the four. Recording just the litigants makes the orders look like a policy that reliably failed. Counting both, they obtained terms from nine firms without once surviving judicial review.
Sourced entries on judicial independence, DOJ enforcement posture, gifts/pardons, and oversight capacity — tracked separately from the litigation index above because these are actions and disclosures, not lawsuits. To see everything tagged to one person, select them in the Cross-Reference Index above; this list filters to match.
Every entry links to primary or mainstream reporting — nothing here is asserted without a source. Entries appearing near each other in time are not thereby proven connected; where a link between two entries is itself contested (e.g. whether a pardon's timing reflects a quid pro quo), the summary says so explicitly rather than implying it. This ledger is not legal advice and does not allege criminal conduct unless a court has found it.
These are run and updated by other teams, not by this site. Rather than re-hosting their work (and going stale the moment they update), we link straight to them.