Legal Battles
Every criminal indictment, civil judgment, and impeachment Trump has faced — with accurate dispositions.
Trump is the most legally exposed person ever to hold the U.S. presidency. He faced 4 criminal cases across federal and state courts, two impeachments, and major civil judgments totaling well over half a billion dollars. This page documents each matter with its actual current disposition — because public reporting often blurs the distinction between an indictment, a verdict, a dismissal, and a sentence.
Read carefully: of the four criminal cases brought against Trump, only one resulted in a conviction (New York hush money). Two federal cases (classified documents and the federal January 6 case) were dismissed without ever reaching a jury. The Georgia state RICO case is paused indefinitely after the lead prosecutor was disqualified. The civil judgments against Trump — Carroll I, Carroll II, and the New York Attorney General fraud case — are findings of civil liability, not criminal conviction, and several remain on appeal.
An Unprecedented Need for Immunity
On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court decided Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. ___ (2024), holding 6–3 that a former president has absolute immunity for actions within his “core” constitutional powers, at least presumptive immunity for all other “official” acts, and no immunity only for clearly “unofficial” conduct. It was the first time in American history the Court recognized criminal immunity for a former U.S. president.
The United States has had 45 prior presidents over 235 years. Until Donald Trump, no president — not Nixon after Watergate, not Andrew Johnson after impeachment, not Bill Clinton after the Lewinsky investigation — had ever required, sought, or received a Supreme Court ruling establishing criminal immunity for the office. The closest prior precedent, Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982), addressed only civil immunity for official acts. Criminal immunity is a doctrine that, by definition, did not exist in U.S. constitutional law before this case.
The ruling effectively ended Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal January 6 prosecution (which had to be substantially narrowed and was then dismissed altogether after the November 2024 election) and created a presumptive shield for any future official-act criminal exposure. Justice Sotomayor, in dissent, wrote that the decision “makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law.”
Criminal Cases
Four criminal cases were brought against Trump across federal and state courts. Click any case to expand the full record. One conviction. Two dismissed. One paused.
Major Civil Judgments
Civil cases use a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard rather than the criminal beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard. A civil judgment is not a criminal conviction — but it is a formal finding by a jury or judge that the defendant committed the underlying conduct.
Impeachments
Impeachment is a constitutional political process, not a criminal proceeding. Trump is the only U.S. president to be impeached twice. He was acquitted by the Senate both times — though the second acquittal vote (57–43) was the most bipartisan vote to convict in U.S. presidential impeachment history.
Other Matters of Record
Settled or closed civil matters that, while not criminal, established documented patterns of self-dealing and consumer fraud.
Sources & Further Reading
All sources are major outlets, court documents, or government records. Where a verified URL is available it is linked; otherwise the outlet and date are provided so the citation can be independently looked up. Sources are deduplicated across cases.
A note on sourcing
Many news articles linking to specific stories from 2019–2024 have moved behind paywalls or been reorganized in outlet archives. Rather than ship broken or fabricated URLs, this page cites outlet + headline + date for sources we could not verify still return HTTP 200. All cited stories are real and were widely reported at the time.