The mob-style shakedowns of colleges, networks, law firms, and businesses are the through line of the Trump era.
Jack Smith
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Trump Escaped Jail or Acquittal by Election
A combination of prosecutorial bumbling, dumb luck, compliant jurists, and winning the election allowed our new president to avoid a day behind bars.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Chief Justice Roberts’s Rule of Disorder: Where the Trump Legal Cases Stand
Where the Trump Legal Cases Stand. The efforts to hold the felonious ex-president criminally accountable are stalled and even the New York State felony convictions are unlikely to lead to sentencing, but it’s not entirely over.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Trump Immunity Decision is Even Worse Than You Think
The Trump Immunity Decision is Even Worse Than You Think. In a frightening ruling that gave the felonious former president more than he could have wished, the conservative supermajority expanded the imperial presidency.
Posted inPolitics
Jack Smith’s Original Sin
It would have been harder, but instead of trying the Mar-a-Lago documents case in Florida, the special counsel could have sought to bring it to court in D.C. Had he, we might be close to a verdict.
Posted inJonathan Alter's Trump Trial Diary
Day Seven of the Trump Trial: David Pecker, Trash Collector
The former publisher of the National Enquirer delivers devastating testimony against Donald Trump
Posted inLaw and Justice
How the Justice Department’s Trump Prosecution Ran Aground
Filing the documents case in Florida instead of D.C and not probing disqualification earlier—these are among the errors that should be nagging at Merrick Garland and Jack Smith.
Posted inPolitics
Justice For Trump Delayed Is Democracy Denied
The painfully slow prosecutions of Donald Trump mean America’s democratic freedoms are in grave jeopardy. Here’s why.
Posted inPolitics
A Trump Coup Trial Primer
Everything you need to know ahead of the most monumental test for the rule of law in American history.
Posted inPolitics
The Trump-Colorado Ballot Case Could Help Restore the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy
Or it could destroy it if the conservative justices restore him to the state’s ballot and let him delay—and possibly quash—the legal cases arrayed against him.
