by Harry Litman For those rightly concerned about the timing of Donald Trump’s federal Jan. 6 trial, Thursday’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court gave plenty of reasons for worry. Moreover, the court’s conservative majority seemed inclined to define presidential immunity ...
by Noah Feldman Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical that prosecutors could use the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to go after Jan. 6 rioters. It’s a closely watched case in part because Special Counsel Jack Smith also cited this statute in his criminal ...
by Mary McNamara As I write this, it is Monday and I am sick, one of our toilets is clogged, and my husband is off to the vet with our elderly and now alarmingly panting dog. But not before handing me a letter informing me that I am part of a Delta Dental data breach that will ...
by Margaret Tarkington Over the last few weeks, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, three lawyers central to Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in the Georgia racketeering case against the former president and 18 co-defendants. All ...
by Jackie Calmes “MAGA Mike” won. Which means, alas, so did Rep. Matt Gaetz. For Gaetz, the smarmy Trump Mini-Me from Florida, and his fellow Republican nihilists, the House’s surprise election of right-wing Rep. Mike Johnson, a formerly obscure Louisianan (despite his big ...
by Gene Lyons Maybe I’m losing my mojo. For all the chatter about political violence out there, this column hasn’t drawn a death threat in months. Maybe not even this calendar year. They used to come in fairly regularly. One time, a junior high gym teacher in Pennsylvania said ...