Trump Can Be Dragged Into Court for Defamation Case, Judge Rules Former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos is suing the president. It looks like he’ll have to show up in court.
russia probe
Mar. 20, 2018
Mueller’s Interest in Obstruction Is Probably Just the Tip of the Iceberg The obstruction case may never come, but don’t be surprised if Mueller’s effort to unravel the Trump-Russia connection yields more conspiracy charges.
Robert Mueller Trains His Sights on the Trump Organization A new round of subpoenas suggest an expanding investigation.
The Newest Frontier in Jurisprudence Is Trump’s Twitter Feed Inside a federal courtroom, the government made a potentially precedent-setting argument for letting a social-media jackass do his thing.
Rough Justice for Public Unions In a case key to the future of organized labor, swing Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy sounded like he’d already made up his mind.
The Second Amendment Is No Barrier to Stricter Gun Laws The courts have found that even all-out bans on assault-style weapons are in harmony with the right to keep and bear arms.
russia probe
Feb. 22, 2018
Robert Mueller Puts the Squeeze on Paul Manafort and Rick Gates Yet Again A new indictment accuses them of carrying out an elaborate scheme to defraud both private financial institutions and the United States.
How Don McGahn Has Become the Worst White House Counsel Ever He has played a key role — often unacknowledged — in a long list of Trump administration debacles.
The Supreme Court Would Be Crazy to Jump Into the DACA Dispute The Supreme Court has an opportunity to weigh in on the future of DACA, but the justices should let Trump fix the mess he created.
conspiracy theories
Jan. 24, 2018
Why an Unreleased 4-Page Memo From Devin Nunes Is Causing a Frenzy on the Right The memorandum, written by Nunes staff members, has the conservative media fired up. But if it’s really so explosive why isn’t it public?
russia investigation
Jan. 20, 2018
What Could Bob Mueller Want From Steve Bannon? Bannon has little left to lose by telling the special counsel everything he knows.
Trump Ending DACA Was Never About the Law. A Federal Judge Noticed. The administration didn’t offer much legal justification for killing the program. Now a court has ordered that protections for Dreamers be restored.
russia probe
Jan. 9, 2018
russia probe
Jan. 3, 2018
Paul Manafort’s Lawsuit Against Robert Mueller Is Frivolous Political Theater Manafort argues that the special counsel has no business sticking his nose in the pre-Trump campaign work he did in Ukraine. He’s wrong.
Is the Judiciary Ready to Handle Harassment Charges? The case of Alex Kozinski, a top appellate judge who has been accused of making unwanted overtures to female clerks, will tell.
Anthony Kennedy Has a Lot of Thinking to Do The Supreme Court case over a baker who wouldn’t sell to a gay couple will come down to him. His questions in the case suggest a conflicted man.
russia investigation
Dec. 3, 2017
Flynn Will Roll Over on Kushner, Pence, and Trump Himself If He Has To Flynn has signaled that he won’t take a bullet for those who haven’t done a thing for him or the country.
russia probe
Nov. 29, 2017
Could the Curious Case of Reza Zarrab Lead to the Downfall of Michael Flynn? Federal prosecutors have flipped the Turkish businessman accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. What might he know about Flynn?
Jeff Sessions, the Jokester Undermining the rule of law for a cheap laugh isn’t funny.
Mueller Seems to Be Closing in on Flynn — and the Indictments Could Be Explosive Reports of a $15 million kidnapping plot have only raised the stakes of the investigation for the Trump White House.
Meet the Texas Lawyer Who Helped an Undocumented Teen Fight for an Abortion Rochelle Garza was a court-appointed attorney in a case that quickly showed up in national headlines.
Mueller Quietly Dropped a Bombshell on Monday — and It Wasn’t About Manafort The special counsel’s charging of a very minor player reveals a lot about the big picture.
Undocumented Teen’s Abortion Is a Constitutional Hellhole for Trump The rights and lives of undocumented immigrants only seem to matter to the Trump administration when a teenage girl wants an abortion.
conflicts of interest
Oct. 19, 2017
Are Foreign Payments to Trump’s Businesses Unconstitutional? We’ll Find Out. A federal judge in Manhattan heard arguments on whether Trump’s business profits violate the obscure foreign emoluments clause.
Trump Still Can’t Get His Travel Ban Past the Courts A federal judge in Maryland joined a judge in Hawaii in blocking the revised ban, though he again went further and called it, in effect, a Muslim ban.
Why the Manhattan District Attorney Let Harvey Weinstein Walk This may be less about campaign donations, and more about the fear of going up against a deep-pocketed defendant in a high-profile sex-crime case.
las vegas shooting
Oct. 3, 2017
Fear and Roaming in Las Vegas Crime-scene enthusiasts, tour guides, and regular Las Vegans float along the Strip, trying to process what happened in their city.
hurricane maria
Sept. 27, 2017
Sonia Sotomayor’s Message of Hope to Puerto Rico: ‘You Are Not Alone’ The Supreme Court justice also struggled to get in touch with her family after Hurricane Maria hit.
Anthony Weiner’s Day of Reckoning When the sentence came down, he slumped onto the table, his left arm covering his head.
Mueller Wants Lots of White House Documents. Trump May Be Forced to Comply. Precedents set under Nixon and Clinton leave the president with few legal options when it comes to the Russia probe.
Trump’s Cowardly Dodge on DACA The president has again demonstrated that the rule of law is a nonconcern for his administration.
Disowning Dreamers Would Be Donald Trump’s Worst Deal Yet He seems to be letting himself get hoodwinked by a meaningless threat.
What Trump Should Tell Houston’s Dreamers More than 56,000 in the storm-ravaged city could be affected by the president’s policy change.
A New Romance: Trump Has Made Progressives Fall in Love With Federalism Progressives have taken up a conservative principle as a shield against the federal government. But is it just a marriage of convenience?
legal challenges
Aug. 5, 2017
How Jeff Sessions Might Channel the Far-Right Crusade Against Affirmative Action The DOJ inserting itself into this debate would represent a dramatic break with history and prior practices.
Mueller’s Grand Jury Means the Trump-Russia Probe Has Kicked Into High Gear Any charges will take months to materialize, but impaneling a grand jury — which can issue subpoenas and compel witnesses to testify — is a big deal.
Jeff Sessions Takes a Stand Against Protecting Gay Workers The Dept. of Justice’s new position is that federal civil-rights law doesn’t cover employees targeted by anti-gay bias
In Case You Had Doubts, Trump’s Military Trans Ban Is Grossly Unconstitutional It will collide head-on with the doctrine of animus — the legal principle guarding against singling out a group for harm.
Somebody Should Sue the Hell Out of Donald Trump If He Lets Obamacare Collapse Republicans took Obama to court over the president’s duty to “take care that laws be faithfully executed.” Democrats should do the same.
russia investigation
July 16, 2017
No, Trump Jr. Doesn’t Have a First Amendment Right to Get Russian Information The courts have already been pretty consistent on this issue of foreign citizens not being able to participate in America’s self-government.
Preet Bharara Has the Supreme Court to Thank for Letting Sheldon Silver Go Free John Roberts set a very favorable precedent for the former State Assembly speaker, who was sent to jail for public corruption.
Don Jr. Won’t Face ‘Collusion’ Charge, But Team Trump May Be in Legal Trouble His interest in obtaining damaging Clinton information may violate several laws against campaigns working with foreign powers.
Trump’s Travel Ban Is Still a Legal Mess The definition of the Supreme Court’s “bona fide relationship” is the new battleground.
Donald Trump May Already Be in Contempt of Court Over His Travel Ban The Supreme Court’s definition of a “close familial relationship” is not as restrictive as the administration would like.
Did the Supreme Court Just Crack the Wall Between Church and State? A look at the justices’ only blockbuster ruling for of the session: Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer.
Donald Trump’s Travel Ban Is Headed to the Supreme Court In the meantime, the Court will allow the ban, in much narrower form, to go into effect.
How a Shorthanded Supreme Court Gutted a Historic Civil-Rights Remedy Gone is much of people’s power to sue federal officials who engage in egregious violations of constitutional rights.
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