Garrett Epps is legal affairs editor of the Washington Monthly. He has taught constitutional law at American University, the University of Baltimore, Boston College, Duke, and the University of Oregon. He is the author of American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution.
The Law that Can Bring Down the Capitol Attackers
Rep. Bennie Thompson and the NAACP are using the Ku Klux Klan Act to bring down the January 6 cabal.
Anatomy of an Insurrection
To convict Trump, the House Managers laid out a meticulous case. The defense team was left quoting Nancy Pelosi and Johnny Depp.
The Jamie Raskin Moment
At the bizarre trial of Donald Trump, the Maryland Congressman, law professor, and grieving father was the man of the hour.
A Would-Be Thief’s Briefs
Donald Trump tried to steal the election. The impeachment papers filed by his legal team are laughably weak.
Trump’s 1776 Commission: A Fable from the Future
It’s the worst, most bonkers history lesson no one asked for: The former president’s pushback on The 1619 Project. A legal scholar’s imaginative look back.
