Impeachment is over, but other efforts to reckon with Trump's post-election chaos have just begun Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post Feb. 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - The state of Michigan and the city of Detroit have asked a federal judge to sanction attorneys who filed lawsuits that falsely alleged the November vote was fraudulent, the first of several similar efforts expected across the country. An Atlanta-area prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation into whether pressure that then-President Donald Trump and his allies put on state officials amounted to an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the presidential election. And defamation lawsuits have been filed against Trump's allies - the start of what could be a flood of civil litigation related to false claims that the election was rigged and to the subsequent riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.