With the Mar-a-Lago documents trial date set for May and a January 6 indictment looming, Trump’s face-the-music moment is arriving.
Law and Justice
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Why Radical Supreme Court Reforms Are Not the Answer to the Radical Roberts Court
Ending affirmative action in higher education, permitting anti-gay discrimination, and forbidding the education secretary from canceling student loan debt solidified the sorry legacy of the John Roberts Supreme Court. As both Garrett Epps and Joshua Douglas have thoroughly documented in the Washington Monthly, this is a radical Court dominated by six conservative justices willing to […]
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The Roberts Court Isn’t Getting More Moderate
The six conservative justices haven’t been shy about jettisoning decades of precedent and even their supposedly moderate rulings aren’t so moderate.
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Unforgiven: The Supreme Court and the Student Loan Conundrum
Its rejection of the Biden administration’s plan fuels cynicism and seems to foreclose similar initiatives going forward.
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John Roberts’s Tiresome Act
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has taken a sledgehammer to precedent and balanced notions of judicial responsibility—led by a chief justice who acts like he’s just an ol’ country lawyer.
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A (Mostly) Good Supreme Court Ruling, Nixing the “Independent State Legislature” Theory of Election Law
It wasn’t ideal, but by a 6-3 vote, the justices rebuked the radical proposition that statehouses can ignore the voting protections in state constitutions.
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Cannon Fodder: The Judge in the Trump Documents Case Sets An Early Trial Date, But That’s Not Happening
The jury is still out on Aileen Cannon, but her filing to start the former president’s trial in August shouldn’t be taken seriously. Here’s what could delay justice and why.
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The Judge Who Sentenced the Rosenbergs
It was the most high-profile espionage trial of the Cold War, and Irving R. Kaufman and his liberal and controversial legacy remain a source of debate.
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Miami Nice: The Trump Documents Plea Deal We Need
The criminal ex-president will never do hard time like he should, but the right kind of deal could mete out justice and spare us all a classified documents trial that will satisfy no one.
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How Delay and Recusal Might Save Trump
The 37-count indictment of Donald Trump is so damning and so meticulously documented with references to conversations with his own lawyers, video recordings, text messages, taped conversations, and the 45th president’s own words about the sanctity of classified documents that were the client not Mr. Mar-a-Lago, any lawyer would advise copping a plea. In the […]
