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Sept. 17, 2023
Do Liberals Think the Supreme Court Will Save Us From Trump? Because that would have to happen to disqualify him from running under the 14th Amendment.
By Ankush Khardori
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Aug. 21, 2023
Actually, Hunter Biden Is Getting It Worse A bumbling Justice Department and Republican pressure have made the prosecution of the president’s son anything but a “sweetheart deal.”
By Ankush Khardori
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Aug. 15, 2023
How Much Does Georgia v. Trump Matter? There are diminishing returns to all the prosecutions, but this one is a clear threat to his co-defendants.
By Ankush Khardori
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Aug. 14, 2023
What to Make of the Hunter Biden Prosecution Debacle With the collapse of the plea deal and the appointment of a special counsel, the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden got even messier.
By Ankush Khardori
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Aug. 10, 2023
Is It Possible Trump Will Strike a Plea Deal to Avoid Prison? Chris Christie and others have suggested that abandoning his reelection bid might be the basis for one.
By Ankush Khardori
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Aug. 7, 2023
How Nancy Pelosi’s Long Game Led to Trump’s Indictment The longtime Democratic leader and prominent Trump antagonist played an essential role in the historic indictment of the former president.
By Ankush Khardori
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Aug. 2, 2023
U.S. v. Trump Is the Most Important Criminal Prosecution in American HistoryDespite the risks, the Justice Department’s case against Donald Trump is necessary and just.
By Ankush Khardori
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July 10, 2023
Trump’s Former Justice Department Officials Fear a Second Term The pressure to punish political opponents will be severe. Yet, they say, there is a case to serve.
By Ankush Khardori
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June 30, 2023
The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Change the Rules of the Game Two major end-of-term decisions show that John Roberts’s pledge to just call “balls and strikes” was disingenuous.
By Ankush Khardori
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June 29, 2023
The End of Affirmative Action Is Only the Beginning Yet again, the Supreme Court’s conservatives just get rid of precedents that they don’t like.
By Ankush Khardori
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June 27, 2023
The Supreme Court Rejects a Lunatic Legal Theory of Elections A 6-3 ruling tossed a conservative idea that could have allowed state legislatures to overturn elections.
By Ankush Khardori
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June 15, 2023
7 Dumb Defenses of Trump Since His Latest Indictment Republicans are grasping for anything they can to defend him.
By Ankush Khardori
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June 9, 2023
2024 Is Now the ‘Lock Him Up’ Election Whether Biden likes it or not, he will have to defend prosecuting Trump, who will absolutely end the case if he wins.
By Ankush Khardori
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June 8, 2023
The Chaos Inside Trump’s Legal Team His attorneys describe a dysfunctional operation as they expect more indictments.
By Ankush Khardori
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May 3, 2023
Disney Should Thank DeSantis for His Big Dumb Mouth The biggest asset in its lawsuit claiming to be a victim of political retaliation are his own words.
By Ankush Khardori
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Apr. 20, 2023
Answering the 3 Biggest Questions About the Fox News Settlement The last-minute deal left the media scrambling to make sense of a case that was supposed to provide an unprecedented public reckoning.
By Ankush Khardori
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Apr. 17, 2023
By Ankush Khardori
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Apr. 4, 2023
What to Make of the Case Against Trump You can be forgiven for thinking it’s complicated.
By Ankush Khardori
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Mar. 31, 2023
Michael Cohen Is Already Undermining the Trump Prosecution Immediately after the indictment, he says he didn’t really mean his guilty plea. Good luck on the witness stand.
By Ankush Khardori
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Mar. 28, 2023
How Michael Cohen’s Big Mouth Could Be Derailing the Trump Prosecution Cohen wants to put Trump in prison — but he keeps saying things on TV that undermine his value as a key witness.
By Ankush Khardori
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Mar. 19, 2023
The First Case Against Trump Is … This? The first-ever criminal prosecution of a former president may be over secret payments to an adult-film star. It follows missed opportunities, too.
By Ankush Khardori
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Mar. 16, 2023
Is Fox News Really Doomed? It certainly appears like they will lose a major lawsuit over election lies.
By Ankush Khardori
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Mar. 3, 2023
In Defense of the Talkative Trump Grand Juror Emily Kohrs didn’t do anything wrong, and the media’s harsh treatment of the Fulton County foreperson was a gift to Trump’s lawyers.
By Ankush Khardori
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Feb. 9, 2023
By Ankush Khardori
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Jan. 13, 2023
Biden Throws Trump a Lifeline And the classified-documents case against the ex-president was no slam dunk to begin with.
By Ankush Khardori
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Dec. 22, 2022
The January 6 Committee’s Best and Worst Cases Against Trump The Justice Department has been given a grab bag of options for prosecution.
By Ankush Khardori
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Dec. 13, 2022
The Indictment of Sam Bankman-Fried Is a Bombshell Federal prosecutors have broken new ground with the shockingly fast arrest of the former king of crypto.
By Ankush Khardori
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Dec. 6, 2022
The Trump Organization Was Convicted After a Truly Embarrassing Defense Any lawyer would have a hard time convincing a jury of the company’s innocence, but these lawyers acted like buffoons.
By Ankush Khardori
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Nov. 21, 2022
The Long Road Ahead for Special Counsel Jack Smith What his appointment to lead the Justice Department’s Trump probes does and doesn’t mean — and what to expect next.
By Ankush Khardori
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Nov. 3, 2022
The Secret Court Battle That Threatens Trump After Election Day Over his objections, federal prosecutors are obtaining potentially crucial testimony about January 6.
By Ankush Khardori
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Oct. 18, 2022
John Durham Almost Makes Ken Starr Look Good Another embarrassing defeat for the supposed savior of Trump’s reputation in Russiagate.
By Ankush Khardori
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Sept. 24, 2022
It’s Blindingly Clear the Feds Failed to Investigate Trump’s Finances Letitia James’s fraud lawsuit is also an indictment of the Justice Department.
By Ankush Khardori
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Sept. 21, 2022
Geoffrey Berman Says the Next Trump Administration Would Be Worse The former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan had up-close experience with some of the worst figures in the Justice Department.
By Ankush Khardori
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Sept. 6, 2022
By Ankush Khardori
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Aug. 9, 2022
Making Sense of the Trump Raid After a summer of intense criticism, Merrick Garland’s Justice Department takes its boldest step yet in pursuit of the former president.
By Ankush Khardori
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July 30, 2022
I Used to Work on Cases Like Twitter v. Musk . Here’s What Will Happen Next. Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk will head to court on October 17. Get ready to watch it with an insider’s eye.
By Ankush Khardori
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July 23, 2022
Lock Him Up?: 8 Big Takeaways From the January 6 Committee The committee’s latest session encapsulated both the most impressive and most frustrating aspects of these hearings.
By Ankush Khardori
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June 29, 2022
The Odds Are Going Up That Trump Could Be Charged Cassidy Hutchinson advances the 1/6 committee’s theory of the case, though it’s not a slam dunk.
By Ankush Khardori
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June 20, 2022
It’s Been a Bad Month for the Donald Trump Innocence Project His media supporters denounce the January 6 hearings as a show trial even as they stand by John Durham, a politically driven prosecutor.
By Ankush Khardori