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Todd Blanche Has Run Wild with DOJ; Now He Must Answer For It

The Reflecting Pool Prosecution Is Already Leaking

Trump Lost Big in the Supreme Court – and Conservatives Swing the Balance Against Him

The Problem with Newsom's Victim Narrative

The Fiasco Hanging Over Todd Blanche's Confirmation Hearing

Trump’s IRS Immunity Deal Survives

Trump’s Slush Fund is Doomed

DOJ’s Slush Fund May Cost Todd Blanche the Attorney General’s Office

Trump's Most Dangerous Executive Order Yet

DOJ Could Sink Its Own Case Against Trump's Would-Be Assassin

The Comey Case Will Collapse Before It Ever Reaches a Jury

Don’t Bet on a DOJ Crackdown Against Insider Trading on Prediction Markets

Trump Braces for Potential Democratic Senate Takeover

The Maduro Case Needs a New Judge

What Trump Wants in His Next Attorney General

Pam Bondi Is Gone, but the Stain on the Justice Department Will Remain

The Single Question That Will Doom Trump’s Quest to Gut Birthright Citizenship

The Most Transparent DOJ in History

One (Losing) Battle After Another

The Trump Administration Wrongly Took $160 Billion and Won’t Give it Back

The Clintons Have Testified about Jeffrey Epstein: Will Trump be Next?

The Justice Department Is Skipping Out on Epstein Accountability

The Epstein List: Celebrities Named, Predators Redacted

Law Enforcement Theater in Fulton County

6 Big Questions for Pam Bondi on Epstein and ICE

The Trump Administration Spews Legal Garbage on Minnesota Shootings

How Bill and Hillary Clinton Could Soon Become Criminal Defendants

Why the FBI’s Minneapolis ICE Shooting Investigation is Hopelessly Compromised

Why Nicolas Maduro Faces Trial in Lower Manhattan

DOJ's Bungled Epstein Rollout Ignores the Law

Time for Pam Bondi Intervention

Epstein Files: We Won’t Know What Bondi Won’t Show

The Malignant Incompetence of Kash Patel

The Losing Isn’t Over for Trump’s Justice Department

How Rookie Mistakes Could Sink the Comey Prosecution

When Juries Push Back

Trump Tariffs Teetering on Extinction

The Trump Tariffs’ Last Stand

Trump vs. Trump's DOJ

The John Bolton Indictment Is Different

Trump Might Get to Send the National Guard Anywhere He Wants

An Epic Courtroom Mismatch Is Looming in the Comey Case

Note from Elie 9/26: The Meaning of the Comey Indictment

Note from Elie 9/22: How Will Pam Bondi React to Trump’s Outrageous Demands of Her?

Note from Elie 9/19: When You Come at the King

Note from Elie 9/12: Trump’s Emergency Summer Becomes Fallback Fall

Note from Elie 9/05: Trump Can’t Fire the Fed at Will — But He Probably Can Fire Lisa Cook

Note From Elie 8/29: Will the Courts Let Trump Send the National Guard Into New York?

Note from Elie 8/22: Obergefell Isn't Dobbs. Gay Marriage Will Stand.

Note from Elie 8/15: The Calm Before the Epstein Storm

Note From Elie 08/08: Will the U.S. Supreme Court Actually Save Ghislaine Maxwell?

Note from Elie 8/1: Trump Is Only Pretending to Release More Epstein Material

Note from Elie 7/25: Ghislaine Maxwell Is Not the Savior

Note from Elie 7/18: Pam Bondi: Trump’s Clueless Heat Shield

Note from Elie 7/11: Nobody Trusts Pam Bondi

Note from Elie 7/3: The Diddy Verdict — What Went Wrong?

Note from Elie 6/27: The Quiet Unraveling of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Prosecution

Note from Elie 6/20: The President’s Constitutional Power to Do Stupid Things

Note From Elie 06/13: The Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case: Prosecution as Political Cover

Note from Elie 6/06: The Supreme Court Will Settle Trump’s Tariffs – But When, and How?

Note from Elie 5/30: Trump vs. Harvard: Asymmetric Warfare

Note from Elie 5/23: Letitia James Started It, but Trump's Payback Isn't the Answer

Note from Elie 5/16: Trump’s Government by Hysteria

Note from Elie 5/09: How Diddy Just Might Avoid Disaster

Note from Rachel 5/7: Commandeering Through Intimidation

Note from Elie 5/02: We’ve Got 99 Immigration Problems, but the Judge Arrests Ain’t One

Note From Barb 4/30: Freezing the Free Press

Note from Elie 4/25: The Trump Administration’s False Flag: Combating Anti-Semitism at Harvard is Really About Thought Control

Note from Elie 4/18: How Could the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Standoff End?

Note from Asha 4/16: What’s the Real Quid Pro Quo with Bukele?

Note from Elie 4/11: Trump Threatens to Imprison Critics — and Now He’s Got the AG To Do It

Note from Rachel 4/9: Rethinking Precedent

Note from Elie 4/3: Trump’s Blacklisted Law Firms: Surrender or Fight?

Note From Barb 4/2: Why Law Firms Must Resist the Bully-in-Chief

Note from Elie 3/26: DOJ’s Selective Do-Nothing Era

Note from Elie 3/21: “One Unelected Judge” vs. the President

Note from Asha 3/19: Why the Alien Enemies Act Is So Dangerous in Trump's Hands

Note from Elie 3/17: Trump Pushes Courts to the Brink

Note from Elie 3/14: Eric Adams: NYC’s Mayor, DOJ’s Yo-Yo

Note from Mimi 3/12: Protecting Prosecutorial Independence

Note from Elie 3/7: Blocked, Un-Blocked, Re-Blocked: How to Understand the Dizzying DOGE Court Rulings

Note From Barb 3/5: Trump's Retribution Tour Hits the 6th Amendment

Note from Elie 2/27: The Nation’s Most Dangerous Prosecutor

Note from Rachel 2/26: Authoritarian Agencies

Note from Asha 2/19: Fearless Speech: What Are You Willing to Risk to Speak Out?

Note from Elie 2/18: The Justice Department’s Existential Crisis Is Self-Inflicted

Note from Mimi 2/12: A Message to DOJ Rank and File

Note from Elie 2/11: DOJ Abandons Adams Prosecution — and Independence

Note from Elie 2/7: The “Make Me” Presidency

Note from Barb: Trump’s Demonization of Public Servants

Note from Elie 1/31: Donald Trump’s Assault on DOJ

Note from Rachel 1/29: Pardons Without Process

Note from Elie 1/24: The Power of Pardons (To Distract)

Note from Asha 1/22: Meta's Pay to Play Gambit

Note from Elie 1/14: Jack Smith, Paper Tiger

Note from Elie 1/10: The Trump Hush Money Sentencing: A Felon, Unpunished

Note from Barb 1/8: Only One President is a Felon

Note from Elie 1/7: TikTok's Last Stand

Note from Elie 1/3: Your Legal Questions Answered

Note from Elie 12/20: The GOP's Criminal Case Against Liz Cheney Is a Total Mess

Note From Joyce 12/18: Birthright Citizenship

The Daniel Penny Trial (with Rikki Klieman)

Note from Elie 12/12: The Bizarre Infatuation with Luigi Mangione Won’t Help Him Beat a Murder Case

Note From Barb 12/11: The Art of the Counterpunch

Presidential Pardons & the Death Penalty (with Rachel Barkow)

Note from Rachel 12/4: The President’s Impoundment Authority

Note from Elie 12/3: Joe Biden’s Pardon of Hunter Is So Much Worse Than It Needed to Be

Note from Asha 11/27: How Bad Are Trump's Nominees? Ask Carla F.

Trump’s Puzzling Free Speech Proposals (with Lee Bollinger)

Note from Elie 11/22: The Trump Hush Money Case Nears its Sorry End

Note From Joyce 11/20: The Harsh Reality of Trump on Immigration

The OLC Memos & Presidential Immunity (with Trevor Morrison)

Note from Elie 11/15: Trump’s Nomination of Matt Gaetz Is a Sign of Dark Intentions

Note From Barb 11/13: Unpardonable

Note from Elie 11/08: Trump's Gamble Pays Off As Cases Fade Away

Note from Rachel 11/5: Tough on Crime Politics is Alive and Well

Note from Elie 11/01: How Not to Contest the 2024 Election

Note from Asha 10/30: When Murder Becomes a Foreign Policy Tool

Note from Elie 10/25: How the 2024 Election Will Reshape the Supreme Court

Note From Joyce 10/23: Will My Vote Still Count?

Note from Elie 10/18: Kamala Harris is, Indeed, a Cop

Note From Barb 10/16: Disinformation at the Eye of the Storm

Note from Elie 10/11: Kathy Hochul’s Dilemma

Note from Rachel 10/9: Wrongful Convictions and Capital Punishment

Note From Elie 10/03: Jack Smith’s October Cheap Shot

Note from Asha 10/2: The Long Arc of Racial Violence

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Indicted (with Barb McQuade)

Note From Joyce 9/25: Donald Trump's Blame Game

Note from Elie 9/18: An SDNY Prosecutor’s Read on the Diddy Indictment

Note from Barb 9/18: A Swift Way to Change the Conversation

Note from Elie 9/13: Jack Smith’s Poison Pill

Note from Rachel 9/11: Prudence over Politics

Note from Elie 9/6: Kamala Harris’s Secret Weapon

Note from Asha 9/04: Not Everything is About Free Speech

Note from Elie 8/30: The Final Days of Merrick Garland

Note from Elie 8/23: How Donald Trump May Dodge Sentencing Before the Election, or Ever

Note From Barb 8/21: The Couch Gag

Note from Elie 8/16: Jack Smith Can Still Hurt Donald Trump

Note from Rachel 8/14: Criminal Justice Reform Goes Mainstream

Note from Elie 8/09: Kamala Harris and Those “Lock Him Up” Chants

Note from Asha 8/07: Trump Knows Exactly What He’s Doing

Note from Elie 8/02: Joe Biden’s Last Stand: Supreme Court Reform

Note From Joyce 7/31: The Bankruptcy Abuse Must Stop

Note from Elie 7/26: Let’s Knock Off the 25th Amendment Talk

Note From Barb 7/24: The Mission of Justice

Note from Elie 7/19: The Secret Biden Tape That We Shouldn’t Hear

Note From Joyce 7/17: Don’t Stop Political Debates

Note from Elie 7/16: Judge Cannon’s Ruling: Probably Wrong, But Not Crazy

Note from Elie 7/12: After the Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling, All Four Trump Cases are in Trouble

The Counsel From Cafe

Note from Elie: Immunity

Note from Elie: The Supreme Court and Jack Smith’s Impending January 6 Dilemma

Note from Elie: How Trump’s SEAL Team Six Assassination Response Has Distorted the Presidential Immunity Argument

Note from Elie: The Supreme Court’s Make-Or-Break Decision on Trump

Note from Elie: Hunter Biden is Almost Surely Guilty — But His Prosecution Makes Little Sense

Note from Elie: The Manhattan DA’s Frankenstein Case is a Winner -- The Trump Jury Did Its Job, but Deep Problems Persist

Note from Elie: Could the Trump Jury Hang?

Note from Elie: The Trump Trial — What if Everyone’s a Horrible Liar?

Note from Elie: Will Donald Trump Take the Stand?

Note from Elie: The Tape that Will Roil the Trump Trial

Note from Elie: Donald Trump — Gagged But Hardly Silenced

Note from Elie: Presidential Immunity: Not As Ridiculous As You’ve Heard

Note from Elie: Donald Trump’s Rorschach Trial

Note from Elie: How on Earth Do You Pick a Jury For a Trump Trial?

Note from Elie: The Texas Immigration Law is Doomed

Note from Elie: Will We See Any Trump Trials Before the Election?

Note from Elie: The Failure of DOJ’s Special Counsel System — From Robert Mueller to Robert Hur, It Simply Hasn’t Worked

Note from Elie: Joe Biden's Looming Nightmare Pardons

Note from Elie: Crash and Burn — The Cost of the Doomed, Hubristic 14th Amendment Campaign

Note from Elie: The Supreme Court Doesn’t Give a Damn About Jack Smith’s Timeline (And It Shouldn’t)

Note from Elie: Michael Cohen’s Moment of Truth Has Arrived

Note from Elie: The Real Biden Documents Scandal (It’s Not the Old Man Stuff)

Note from Elie: Donald Trump Has a Jury Problem

Note from Elie: Fani Willis Has Problems (Upon Problems)

Note from Elie: How Merrick Garland Saved E. Jean Carroll – and His Own Trump Prosecution

Note From Elie: The Word Jack Smith Will Never Say

Note From Elie: The Supreme Court’s Silver Bullet Solution to the Fourteenth Amendment Problem

Note from Elie: The Trail to 2024 Trump Trials

Note from Elie: 2023 Legal News Trivia

Note from Elie: The Danger of Weaponization – No Matter Who Does It

Note from Elie: The Supreme Court Puts Jack Smith in a Bind

Note From Elie: The Joe Biden Impeachment Inquiry: Promise Everything, Deliver Nothing

Note from Elie: My Carroll Hardy Moment

Note from Elie: Take Donald Trump at His Word

Note from Elie: What Do We Do With Congressional Scoundrels?

Note from Elie: Why Halfway Cooperation Doesn’t Work

Note from Elie: Watergate, Trump, and How History Speaks to Us

Note from Elie: My Name

Note from Elie: The Known Unknowns of Trump’s Immunity Defense

Note from Elie: Why Trump Opted Not to Seek Removal to Federal Court

Note From Elie: The Prosecution’s Worst Witness

Note from Elie: The Importance of Who Decides, and Where

Note from Elie: The Forgotten Special Counsel

Note from Elie: The End of Unprecedented

Note from Elie: Speedy Trials and High Stakes in Trump Georgia Case

Note from Elie: The Purgatory of the Trump Co-Conspirators

Note from Elie: The Problem With Pardon-Proofing

Note from Elie: A Tale of Two Judges

Note from Elie: Trump’s 3rd Indictment Is Really Not About Jan. 6

Note from Elie: Donald Trump and the “One More Thing” Defense

Note from Elie: Why Fani Willis Should Stand Down

Note from Elie: The Supreme Court: Conservative Outcomes, Activist Means

Note from Elie: Where’s Walt?

Note From Elie: Why DOJ’s Trump Trial Should Go First

Note from Elie: Skip the Outrage Over Hunter Biden

Note from Elie: Why Trump Was Charged in Florida, Not DC

Note From Elie: Bright Lights Can Make for Ugly Temptation

Note from Elie: Trump’s Longshot Case for Federal Court

Note From Elie: George Santos and the Cold Reality of Consequences

Note from Elie: Durham Report - Four Years for This?

Note from Elie: What John Roberts Really Meant to Say

Note from Elie: The Justice Department’s Hunter Biden Conundrum

Note from Elie: A Trump Trial Will Happen – But When?

Note from Elie: Decoding Dominion’s Settlement with Fox

Note from Elie: Judge Merchan Is Admirable - But He Should Recuse

Note From Elie: In the Trump Case, We’re All Courtroom Watchers

Note From Elie: Prosecutors, Turf Battles, and Trump

Note From Elie: What a Trump Indictment Could Mean for the Nation

Note From Elie: The Trump Hush Money Case: Bombshell or Dud?

Note from Elie: Nine Policymakers in Black Robes

Note From Elie: Speech or Debate — Breaking New Constitutional Ground

Note From Elie: The Fulton County Grand Juror and the Irresistible Pull of the Spotlight

Note From Elie: Mark Pomerantz, Self-Promoting Prosecutorial Turncoat

Note from Elie: How to Get Rid of George Santos

Note from Elie: How Powerful People Get Away with It

Note from Elie: Bad Faith in Pursuit of a White Whale

Note from Elie: DOJ & the Coming Constitutional Showdown

Note From Elie: What Should We Make of the Biden Documents Matter

Note From Elie: DOJ and The Cost of Getting There Second

Note From Elie: Legal Heroes of 2022

Note from Elie: End Game for the January 6 Committee

Note from Elie: Loose Lips Sink Ships: Justice Alito and the Supreme Court’s Credibility Crisis

Note from Elie: An Indictment (or Two) Won't End Trump's 2024 White House Bid

Note From Elie — Trump Prosecutors: Focus on the People, Not the Label

Note From Elie: On Antisemitism

Note from Elie: Can a Republican Majority in Congress Derail the Justice Department?

Note From Elie: Gaetz Skates — Prosecutorial Malpractice

Note From Elie: Donald Trump’s Shot at History

Note from Elie: Time for DOJ to Do its Job on Jan. 6

Note from Elie: DOJ Subpoenas Mark Meadows (Sort Of)

Note from Elie: Nobody Wins with the Special Master

Note from Elie: Politics Mar Trump Lawsuit

Note from Elie: Steve Bannon’s Joy Ride is Over

Note from Elie: The Real World Cost of Prosecutorial Delay

Note from Elie: All the Former President’s Lawyers

Note From Elie: Merrick Garland Holds the Line

Note From Elie: In Defense of the Fifth

Note from Elie: Making Sense of Mar-a-Lago

Note from Elie: A Chance at Redemption

Note from Elie: Steve Bannon’s Moment of Accountability

Note from Elie: What If They All Went Along With It?

Note from Elie: Deciphering DOJ’s Jan. 6 Contempt Decisions

Note From Elie: DOJ Delay Hurts Its Own Cause

Note from Elie: The Supreme Court and the Rule of Five

Note from Elie: What Does it Mean, Exactly, to Know?

Note from Elie: Committee Hearings and Criminal Prosecution: Different Ball Games

Note from Elie: “Dereliction of Duty” Is Far Too Generous to Donald Trump

Note from Elie: The 2nd Amendment, Justice Scalia, and Selective Textualism

Note from Elie: What is DOJ Doing on Matt Gaetz?

Note from Elie: Latest Jan. 6 Subpoenas: Suboptimal but Sensible

Note from Elie: America’s Chaotic Post-Roe Future

Note from Elie: Merrick Garland is Running Out of Time

Note from Elie: Dishonest but Not Dumb

Note from Elie: On Hunter Biden, Let DOJ Do its Job

Note from Elie: Criminal Referral: The Ultimate Sugar Rush

Note from Elie: A New Rule for Confirming Supreme Court Justices

Note From Elie: Refuse to Recuse – A Bad Look for Justice Thomas & The Court

Note from Elie: Defending the Defenders – Judge Jackson's Unique Perspective

Note from Elie: Lessons from Prosecuting the Nazis

Note From Elie: Three Reasons for DOJ's Delay on Meadows

Note from Elie: Bill Barr's Revisionist BS

Note from Elie: Manhattan DA Bragg vs. the Trump Investigators

Note From Elie: Where the Constitution is Silent

Note From Elie: Ivanka Trump Is Not A Child

Note from Elie: Why Age Matters on the Supreme Court

Note from Elie: Rudy’s Downward Spiral

Note From Elie: The Many Faces of Kevin McCarthy

Note from Elie: Reform the Electoral Count Act Now

Note From Elie: Jan. 6 Committee Must Play Hardball

Note From Elie: The Top Legal Heroes of 2021

Note From Elie: Taking the Fifth: The Constitutional Cop-Out

Note From Elie: The MAGA-for-lifers vs. The Prison-Averse

Note From Elie: Judicial Malpractice

Note From Elie: Aural Closure in a Middle School Gym For All

Note From Elie: “The Importance of Preserving Executive Privilege”

Note From Elie: Biden Right to Retract Statement on Jan 6 Prosecutions

Note From Elie: A Taxonomy of Trumpworld Witnesses

Note From Elie: Trump Has Mastered The Art of Delay

Note From Elie: The Supreme Court Publicity Tour

Note From Elie: Contempt of Congress Prosecutions are Necessary but Fraught

Note From Elie: The Failure of John Durham’s Investigation

Note From Elie: The January 6 Committee is On the Clock

Up Against the Mob: The Cooperator

Note From Elie: A Personal Reflection on 9/11

Note From Elie: Bill Barr’s Cringeworthy Text Messages

Note From Elie: A Bridge Too Far on the Eviction Moratorium

Note From Elie: Cuomo Unlikely to Face Charges

Note From Elie: The Coming Congressional Battle Over Jan 6

Note From Elie: Why Jeffrey Clark Matters

Note From Elie: The Case Against Tom Barrack

Note From Elie: The Uncertainty of Andrew Cuomo’s Political Fate

Note From Elie: Kevin McCarthy and the Truth About Jan. 6th

Note From Elie: Hatchet Man

Note From Elie: Trump Won't Go to Jail

Note From Elie: DOJ Stood Its Ground

Note From Elie: Too Little, Too Late For Don McGahn

Note From Elie: DOJ Should Bring Sedition Charges

Note From Elie: Will Trump Be Indicted?

Note From Elie: How Much Is Too Much?

Tish Targets Trump

Much Ado About McGahn?

The Business of Cooperation

Prosecutors and the Media

Hatchet Job

Chauvin Charged (Again)

"The Shadow Docket"

The Court-Packing Debate

The Rudy Raid

Third Degree Sample: Policing & Systemic Change

Prosecuting the Insurrection

Unfinished Business For DOJ

Third Degree Sample: After the Chauvin Verdict

The Chauvin Verdict

Chauvin Trial: The Final Stretch

Third Degree Sample: The Chauvin Defense Rests

Stop, Cooperate and Listen

Chauvin Trial: What’s Next

Third Degree Sample: Reflections on the Chauvin Trial

The Investigation of Matt Gaetz

Chauvin Trial Continues

Third Degree Sample: Chauvin Trial - The Arguments

The Battle Over Voting

Chauvin Trial Begins

Third Degree Sample: Prosecuting Sedition

Prosecuting Hate Crimes

Merrick Garland’s First Test

Third Degree Sample: How To Strike a Juror

Can The Chauvin Jury Be Impartial?

Closing In On Trump

Third Degree Sample: The Juror

Picking the Chauvin Jury

Did Cuomo Commit a Crime?

The Manhattan DA vs. Trump

Cuomo’s Conduct

The Book on Bannon

A Case Grows in Manhattan

The DOJ Returns

Merrick Garland’s Moment

Zoom Lawyering

Will Trump Be Charged?

Is Impeachment Broken?

Impeachment Day 5

Impeachment Day 4

Impeachment Day 3

Impeachment Day 2

Impeachment Day 1

Impeachment Preview

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