Danny Hakim

Boris Epshteyn, who oversees Donald J. Trump’s legal team, was arraigned on nine felony charges on Tuesday.

The challenges from defendants charged with trying to overturn the 2020 election will be a test case for a new but little-known state law aimed at curbing political prosecutions.

The judge said the state chose the wrong venue to file a case against the Republicans who tried to declare Donald J. Trump the winner of the 2020 election.

Determining which of the alleged acts that Donald Trump is being prosecuted for in the state were official conduct, and which were not, could delay the case for months.

Wayne LaPierre stepped down on the eve of the first phase of the trial. In the second act, the stakes will be far higher.

The new chief executive is at odds with the new board president, just as the organization is arguing against a court-ordered monitor to oversee its finances.

In a ruling on Monday, a New York judge decided against imposing an outside monitor and pressed the gun group to change its administrative practices.

Ms. Ellis is the first of 18 defendants to reach a deal with prosecutors in a case that charges them with trying to overturn Arizona’s election results in 2020.

Brian Scott Lorenz was convicted of killing a young mother near Buffalo in 1993. The district attorney is fighting a judge’s decision last year to throw out the case.

Republicans are filing a barrage of election lawsuits in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. The cases may be a road map for a legal battle over the results.