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The independent presidential candidate said if elected he would appoint a nonpartisan special counsel to 'right any wrongs.'

The US Supreme Court justices indicated their readiness to reject a decision that disqualified Donald Trump from the ballot in Colorado for his participation in the 2021 Capitol attack.

Donald Trump's lawyers on Thursday bring his fight against a campaign to kick him off state presidential ballots for his actions involving the 2021 Capitol attack to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case with major implications for the November election. The nine justices, three of whom Trump appointed, will hear arguments in his appeal of a lower court's decision to disqualify him from Colorado's Republican presidential primary ballot under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment after finding that he participated in an insurrection.

A security officer who worked as a contractor for the U.S. State Department was arrested on federal charges on Tuesday in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, an arrest warrant showed. Kevin Michael Alstrup was arrested in Washington on charges of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol Building, according to the warrant. The warrant was filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who testified before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack, announced on Friday that he’s running for Congress. Dunn is running for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District, which is being vacated by retiring Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) — a move that comes several months after suggesting on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that he might run for…