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Is This Legal Strategy Trump’s Last Hope in Hush-Money Case?

As his criminal trial gets underway with opening statements and the presentation of the first prosecution witness, defendant Donald Trump’s defense...

yesterday 10

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Columbia’s Protest Crackdown Is Another Free Speech Blunder

There is a simple solution to the student protests at Columbia University and a growing number of other campuses over the Israel-Hamas war:...

previous day 10

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Trump Needs a Will Smith-Style Gag Order (Minus the Slap)

Despite a feeling of one step forward and two steps back Thursday morning, the jury in the Manhattan District Attorney’s election interference case...

19.04.2024 20

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Trump’s Hardest Fight May Be Staying Awake in Court

It may turn out that the one thing Donald Trump cannot get away with is sleeping in court. As a young prosecutor, I was part of a legal team on a case...

16.04.2024 10

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Trump’s Attacks on Judges and Prosecutors Are Dangerous. Gag Him Completely

Judges and prosecutors seem so afraid of violating Donald Trump’s First Amendment rights that they are undermining the integrity of the criminal...

01.04.2024 10

The Daily Beast

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Stormy Daniels’ New Movie Is No Reason to Dismiss the Trump Case

Former President Donald Trump faces state charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of falsifying business records in order to...

20.03.2024 10

The Daily Beast

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The Judge’s Ruling on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis Is a Mess

Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday morning that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is not disqualified from prosecuting the cases against...

16.03.2024 20

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Republicans’ Hunter Biden Witch Hunt Is an Epic Fail

The months of fruitless effort by the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee to unearth evidence supporting an...

29.02.2024 6

The Daily Beast

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Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump Is Stronger Than You Think

Former President Donald J. Trump just can’t shake Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg off him. While Trump is on the verge of successfully...

22.02.2024 10

The Daily Beast

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The Case for Disqualifying Fani Willis Makes No Sense

On the day after Valentine’s Day, the judge presiding over the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 of...

15.02.2024 30

The Daily Beast

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Special Counsel Robert Hur’s Report on Biden’s Classified Documents Is Partisan and Unprofessional

As part of his Don Quixote-like quest to avoid criticism, Attorney General Merrick Garland has binged on special counsel appointments throughout his...

09.02.2024 6

The Daily Beast

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Be Prepared for a Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling in Trump’s Favor

The only question left after today’s Supreme Court arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be disqualified is how many different...

09.02.2024 20

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The Jury Went Easy on Trump by Only Awarding Carroll $83.3M

Years ago, as a young prosecutor, I won a sexual assault case and the survivor in that case wrote to the court saying “I know Mr. Wu says we won the...

27.01.2024 6

The Daily Beast

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Trump Would Be a Rogue Cop With Presidential Immunity

As we await the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on whether former President Donald J. Trump is immune from prosecution, the former president has...

24.01.2024 10

The Daily Beast

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Calm Down, the Allegations Against Fani Willis Won’t Put Trump’s Georgia Prosecution at Risk

There is something to worry about in a motion filed today by a Donald Trump co-defendant seeking to dismiss the indictment and disqualify Fulton...

09.01.2024 9

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Chief Justice John Roberts’ AI Report Reads Like an Old Robot Wrote It

Chief Justice John Roberts issued his 2023 year-end report for a year in which the U.S. Supreme Court suffered a historic loss in credibility caused...

04.01.2024 8

The Daily Beast

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Here’s What SCOTUS Should Do With the Trump Ballot Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court needs to understand that the disqualification of former President Donald J. Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from...

30.12.2023 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Why Trump and His GOP Henchwoman Will Regret That Michigan Phone Call

When Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel helped former President Donald Trump pressure two Michigan elections officials to not...

23.12.2023 70

The Daily Beast

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Colorado’s Trump Ballot Ruling Just Gave the U.S. Supreme Court a Shot at Redemption

The Colorado Supreme Court handed the United States Supreme Court a chance to staunch the high court’s credibility bleed-out. In ruling that former...

21.12.2023 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Trump, Elon Musk, and Billionaire ‘Populists’ Threaten Democracy and Freedom

Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara in 1921 described a weather phenomenon in which two tropical cyclones begin to interact with each other with...

13.12.2023 10

The Daily Beast

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Why Hunter Biden’s Tax Indictment Is an Embarrassment to the DOJ

The latest indictment of Hunter Biden adds to an embarrassing series of missteps in this case that makes the Department of Justice look petty and...

09.12.2023 60

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Who Cares if Trump’s Gag Orders Violate the First Amendment?

The debate over whether imposing so-called “gag orders” on former President Donald Trump violates the First Amendment is much ado about nothing. I...

01.12.2023 2

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Elon Musk Is Weaponizing the Government and Courts Against His Critics

We don’t have to wait for a second Trump presidency to see how would-be authoritarians use the law to punish their enemies. It’s happening right...

22.11.2023 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code Is Too Little, Far Too Late

The United States Supreme Court finally adopted a code of ethics which removes their embarrassing prior distinction of being the only judges in the...

14.11.2023 3

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Ivanka Trump Dodged Perjury While Avoiding the Whole Truth in New York Fraud Trial

Social media speculation about Ivanka Trump’s testimony tended to focus on whether she would protect her father and the family business or throw him...

09.11.2023 3

The Daily Beast

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Judge Engoron Made the Right Call: Let Trump Rant and Rave

Former President Trump’s testimony today in the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Arthur Engoron was not the first time an ex-President has taken the...

07.11.2023 40

The Daily Beast

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This Trump Trial Will Decide If Cheaters Can Run for Office

Former President Donald Trump and his lawyers don’t seem to understand the concept of disqualification. It means you don’t get to play. In the...

03.11.2023 8

The Daily Beast

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Judges Need to Make It Clear to Trump That Their Gag Orders Aren’t Optional

The judges overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s civil and criminal trials need to send a message to him and his supporters that the gag...

26.10.2023 9

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Trump Gets a Lesson in Civics With Latest Gag Order From Judge

Judge Tanya S. Chutkan just gave Donald Trump and his legal team a lesson in the rule of law. Released Tuesday, Chutkan–who is presiding over the...

18.10.2023 20

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Shan Wu

Colleges Should Defend Students’ Free Speech Against Billionaire Donors

Criticism of student groups blaming Israel for the killing of civilians by Hamas terrorists gives colleges and universities a choice between...

17.10.2023 2

The Daily Beast

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Trump’s Latest Gamble Is Outlandish—but It Just Might Work

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team went big in their latest effort to derail the prosecution against him for conspiring to interfere in the...

07.10.2023 3

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Gold Bars Might Not Be Enough to Convict Bob Menendez

At a press conference replete with blown-up photographs of gold bars and cash literally stuffed into the pockets of a jacket emblazoned with the words...

05.10.2023 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

DeSantis Makes Bonkers Claims About Florida Schools’ Ties to China

Not content to stop at banning books, curriculum about sexual orientation and gender identity, and the teaching of critical race theory, Florida Gov....

26.09.2023 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Clarence Thomas’ Koch Party Is Latest Shocking Ethics Breach

Justice Clarence Thomas once championed the Supreme Court line of precedent giving deference to federal agency expertise—the so-called “Chevron...

23.09.2023 8

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Congress Needs to Show Samuel Alito and the Supreme Court Who’s Boss

Justice Samuel Alito is making plain his view that the U.S. Supreme Court is not just the highest court in the land but the highest branch of...

13.09.2023 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

DOJ Shouldn’t Explore for Crimes to Indict Hunter Biden

The Justice Department’s announcement that Special Counsel David Weiss intends to indict President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, for gun charges...

07.09.2023 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

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