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It would be fair to say that Donald Trump’s lawyers have got plenty of potential court dates ahead of them in the coming months and years. Here is a list from CNN’s Dan Berman of all the investigations and court activity that the former president is facing:

Mar-a-Lago documents – Special counsel Jack Smith is overseeing the Justice Department’s criminal investigations into the retention of national defence information at Trump’s resort.

2020 election and January 6 – Smith’s purview also includes the period after Trump’s 2020 election loss to Joe Biden and leading up to the insurrection at the US Capitol. Aspects of the Justice Department’s probe include the use of so-called fake electors from states that Trump falsely claimed he had won, such as Georgia and Arizona.

2020 election: Efforts to overturn Georgia results – Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney Fani Willis oversaw a special grand jury investigating what Trump or his allies may have done in their efforts to overturn Biden’s victory in Georgia.

2020 election and January 6: House select committee – before concluding at the end of 2022, the House select committee referred Trump to the Justice Department on at least four criminal charges.

E. Jean Carroll: Defamation suit over Trump’s denial of rape claims – Carroll alleged Trump raped her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and defamed her when he denied the rape

January 6: lawsuits by police officers – several members of the US Capitol Police are suing Trump saying his words and actions incited the 2021 riot.

Trump and Bob Woodward – Trump is suing journalist Woodward for alleged copyright violations, claiming Woodward had released audio from interviews without consent.

Trump and the New York Times, Mary Trump and CNN – Trump is suing his niece and The New York Times in New York state court over the disclosure of his tax information.

Trump and CNN – Trump has sued CNN in a southern Florida federal court, accusing the network of a “campaign of dissuasion in the form of libel and slander”. CNN has asked the judge for the case to be “dismissed with prejudice.”