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... In a report published on Friday, Law & Crime revealed that a new amended complaint is planned to be filed against the former president by April 12. The development stems from the 2020 lawsuit, Buchanan v. Trump, in which Trump was sued in his official capacity as president by protestors who alleged they were unconstitutionally cleared away by police during an incident in June 2020.

Amid the mass countrywide protests in the summer of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin, protestors in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., were forcibly cleared from the area by police using tear gas and batons. This was done at the direction of then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr to clear a path for Trump to walk from the White House to St. John's Episcopal Church for a photo-op of himself holding a bible.

The federal government ultimately settled the case, but damage claims against Trump and other officials in Buchanan were later thrown out, owing to protections for federal officials from civil suits.

Now, however, the team behind the suit has been cleared by a judge to file an amended criminal complaint in light of a January 2021 Interior Department's inspector general report which found that Lafayette Square had not been properly cleared and that police had not followed acceptable practices. ...