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Indictments involved attempts to overturn Biden’s crucial victory in Georgia in the 2020 US presidential electionGood morning, US politics live blog readers. It’s going to be another big Friday in one of the criminal cases against Donald Trump, while US president Joe Biden is in India for G20 and a crucial bilateral with the prime minister, Narendra Modi.Here’s some of what’s ahead:The report of the special grand jury in Georgia that agreed to indict former US president Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants in the election subversion case involving attempts to overturn Biden’s crucial victory in the state in the 2020 presidential election is expected to be unsealed today.Joe Biden is due to touch down in New Delhi, India, in under two hours, a day before the start of the G20 summit there. He and Narendra Modi will hold a bilateral meeting shortly after the US president arrives. The specter of Russia’s war in Ukraine looms over the event.Speaking of criminal cases against former US presidents, on this day 49 years ago Republican president Gerald Ford granted a “full, free, and absolute pardon” to former president Richard Nixon covering his entire term in office, the AP notes.Donald Trump will attend a rally tonight in South Dakota and the state’s right-wing governor Kristi Noem is expected to endorse his run for the 2024 Republican nomination for the White House. Noem is considered a vice-presidential hopeful. Continue reading...