An observer of the Supreme Court oral argument on the 45th president’s getting kicked off the Colorado primary ballot might be forgiven for asking, “What have you done with Donald Trump’s legal team?” The argument offered by the former president’s attorney was quite different than the posturing of his lawyers in previous cases—and even in […]
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It’s Not Just the Border: The Trump-Abbott-Republican Nullification Crisis Is Here
Not since the meek accountant in the back of the courtroom leapt up and screamed, “Stop, Perry Mason! I did it! I killed him, and I’m GLAD!” has a suspect been quite so eager to confess his crimes as Donald J. Trump. When he proposed a Muslim ban in 2016 and then actually declared one […]
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The Wrong Reasons to Keep Trump on the Ballot
Whether the former president violated the insurrection clause is debatable, but some of the lame excuses being bandied about are not.
