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Trump DOJ Rescinds Grand Jury Subpoenas of Journalists

The Trump Justice Department has quietly dropped its initiative to force journalists to testify about their sources in leak investigations. Last...

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Despite Objections, Pulte Slated to Become Acting DNI Today

Today is slated to be the effective date of President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte, his director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as...

19.06.2026 3

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Trump’s Iran MOU Piles the Illegal atop the Unconstitutional

Not that anyone will do anything about it, but President Trump’s capitulatory memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran is the predicate for what...

19.06.2026 6

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Trump Temporarily Pulls Jay Clayton DNI Nomination to Pressure Congress on Voter ID

Last week, I related that President Trump had nominated Jay Clayton, his Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to...

17.06.2026 7

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Trump to Israel: Let the al-Qaeda Guy Handle Hezbollah

More news along the lines of my last post regarding credible reports that the Trump administration has agreed with Iran that the United States will...

16.06.2026 9

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The Trump Administration Thinks We’re Imbeciles

To repeat what I contended yesterday, they think we’re idiots. Let’s take it down to the simple basics. Trump’s agreement with Iran is not an...

16.06.2026 7

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Has Trump Promised Iran That He’ll Stop Israel from Fighting Hezbollah?

Again, it’s the Trump administration’s own fault that there is speculation (some educated, some not) about the terms of its memorandum of...

16.06.2026 8

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Trump’s Iran Deal: Billions Up Front for Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism

Not surprisingly, the Trump administration is still not publicizing its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the jihadist Iranian regime. It is...

15.06.2026 9

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Trump Kills Alleged Leader of Tren de Aragua

Few will mourn the recent killing of Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores. Flores was the alleged leader of Tren de Aragua (TdA), better known by his...

13.06.2026 20

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Will Trump’s Nomination of Clayton Obviate the Pulte Problem at ODNI?

President Trump’s nomination of Jay Clayton to be the next director of national intelligence has not only gotten a warm reception on Capitol Hill....

12.06.2026 10

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Trump Nominates Prosecutor Jay Clayton to Be Director of National Intelligence

In a post this morning (following one from Wednesday), I explained that President Trump was appealing to congressional Democrats to agree to a...

11.06.2026 10

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Prosecutors Go Out of Their Way to Bring Case in . . . San Francisco?

Everyone should read Dan’s excellent post on the Supreme Court’s decision today regarding what the proper venue is for a crime. I write only to...

11.06.2026 10

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Section 702 Temporary Extension Looks Set to Fail

I posted late yesterday about how President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress were trying to entice the Democratic minorities in both chambers...

11.06.2026 9

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Trump: Pulte’s Tenure as Acting National Intelligence Director Will Be Brief

Facing significant blowback from Congress and the possibility of losing intelligence-gathering authority, while the nation is at war no less,...

10.06.2026 10

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‘Proportionally’ Moronic: Iran as The West Wing

What’s next, a clip from Bananas? Actually, truth being stranger than fiction, I don’t think President Trump needs to keep reposting lefty catnip...

10.06.2026 7

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Moment of Truth: Iran Shoots Down U.S. Apache Helicopter near Strait of Hormuz

President Trump announced — on Truth Social, of course — that Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter flying near the Strait of Hormuz. No...

09.06.2026 5

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Congressional Opposition Mounts Against Pulte DNI Appointment

There have been interesting developments regarding President Trump’s naming of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence (DNI), which I...

03.06.2026 10

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Trump Names Pulte to Replace Gabbard as Acting National Intelligence Director

Unlike some other appointments, President Trump’s naming of Tulsi Gabbard to serve as national intelligence director was not something I could get...

02.06.2026 10

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Judge Bars Trustees from Adding Trump’s Name to Kennedy Center

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that President Trump and the board of trustees he installed may not rename the John F. Kennedy Center...

29.05.2026 10

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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’

A federal court in Alexandria, Va., has issued an injunction against the Trump administration’s establishment of the so-called Anti-Weaponization...

29.05.2026 10

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Trump on Paxton and the Iran ‘Conflict’

At his cabinet meeting today, President Trump had some bracing things to say about the Iran war, which, he noted, he calls a “conflict” — at...

27.05.2026 10

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Comey Trial Postponed to October

I don’t believe former FBI Director James Comey will ever be tried on the Trump Justice Department’s inane charges that he threatened to kill the...

27.05.2026 10

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Terrorists Haven’t Just Taken Over Iran — They’ve Run It for 47 Years

I am an ardent admirer of Elliott Abrams, but I find his column today, lamenting that Iran has been taken over by terrorists, as if that just...

18.05.2026 10

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Yes, Be Skeptical of Claims That the U.S. Hasn’t Damaged Iran Much

Yesterday afternoon, I posted about my skepticism of claims in a New York Times report, relying on unnamed intelligence sources, to the effect that...

15.05.2026 10

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American Spy Agency Intel on Iran’s Ballistic Missiles

In a column earlier today, I said I’d separately address U.S. intelligence leaks to the New York Times, indicating that “Iran has restored...

14.05.2026 10

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Brief Stay (So Far) of Trade Court’s Ruling against Trump’s Section 122 Tariffs

Yesterday, the Federal Circuit issued an administrative stay, suspending last week’s ruling by a divided three-judge panel of United States Court of...

13.05.2026 10

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Trump Admin Appealing Trade Court’s Invalidation of Section 122 Tariffs

On Friday, I posted on the ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of International Trade (CIT), holding that the 10 percent...

11.05.2026 10

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The Latest Lethal U.S. Caribbean Strikes Fit a Troubling Pattern

While the Iran War continues — despite the Trump administration’s claims that it is not a war and has terminated even as the antagonists blockade...

10.05.2026 10

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Federal Trade Court Invalidates Trump’s Section 122 Tariffs

The United States Court of International Trade (CIT), in a 2–1 ruling, has invalidated the tariffs President Trump imposed in purported reliance on...

08.05.2026 10

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Congress Should Authorize Military Force Against Iran

President Trump’s dereliction in failing to prepare the nation for war with Iran, and his inconstancy about the war’s objectives -- and even...

07.05.2026 10

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Trump Tells Congress ‘Hostilities’ with Iran Have ‘Terminated’ Despite Dueling Blockades

My weekend column addresses the implausibility of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s claim, in Senate testimony, that the so-called cease-fire ordered...

02.05.2026 20

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Wages of Lawfare: Powell Will Stay on at the Fed

I’ve noted a number of times that President Trump’s lawfare jihad against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was doubly self-destructive....

30.04.2026 10

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Leave the United States Out of Trump’s Lawfare ‘Indictments’

Forget the passport. And the dollar. And the Kennedy Center. And the battleships. Forget the national park passes, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the...

29.04.2026 30

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Trump DOJ Brings a Second Bogus Comey Indictment

If it’s possible, the Trump Justice Department’s new indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is even more absurd than the previous...

28.04.2026 30

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Trump DOJ Bows to Inevitability and Drops the Powell Probe

Today’s announcement that the Justice Department is dropping its investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was inevitable: The...

24.04.2026 10

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Let Congress Sue over Abuses of Executive Power

Beginning 2025, the Democracy Project at NYU Law School produced a series of essays by legal analysts and commentators from across the political and...

15.04.2026 10

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Florida Federal Judge Dismisses Trump’s Defamation Claims Against WSJ over Epstein Birthday Card

A federal judge in Florida has dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, in which he claimed to have been defamed by the...

13.04.2026 10

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No, Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure Are Not Banned Under International Law

President Trump’s deadline for Iranian capitulation regarding the Strait of Hormuz is just over nine hours away, and he is reaffirming vows to...

07.04.2026 20

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Rubio Rescinds Green Cards of Two Soleimani Family Members

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that he has rescinded the green cards of two relatives of Qasem Soleimani, the top general of Iran’s...

04.04.2026 10

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Bondi Couldn’t Do the Impossible

In a nutshell, President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi for failing to execute the impossible mission he had given her. But it’s not as if...

02.04.2026 20

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Does Congress Have a Say in Birthright Citizenship?

Interesting: At the ongoing oral argument of the birthright citizenship case, Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked Solicitor General John Sauer whether...

01.04.2026 10

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Birthright Citizenship Case Comes to the Supreme Court

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the much anticipated oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara. I confess...

01.04.2026 10

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Court Grants Anthropic Injunction Against Trump Admin’s ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Designation

A federal court in San Francisco has issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from designating the tech giant Anthropic as a...

29.03.2026 20

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L.A. Jury Finds Social Media Companies Liable for User’s Depression

Like anyone who has kids in this day and age, I am sympathetic to families that must cope with youth depression and anxiety. But the notion that tech...

25.03.2026 10

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Assange Coda to the Mueller Probe Story

I am very grateful for the public support I received from a number of people in connection with the Saturday night contretemps to which I responded at...

25.03.2026 20

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Robert Mueller, Patriot

Just to be clear, since some of the comments by Trump myrmidons straining to rationalize the president’s disgusting remarks about the death of...

21.03.2026 10

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Why Are We Injecting $14 Billion into Iran’s War Effort . . . Against Us?

While we are at war with Iran, while Iran’s leverage in the war is its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, where its de facto blockade has suspended...

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Utah Lacks a U.S. Attorney Because of Presidential Dithering, Not Judicial Usurpation

I’m an enthusiastic admirer of Michael Fragoso’s work, but I’m puzzled by his piece today, “A Judicial Coup in Utah.” He argues that Melissa...

18.03.2026 20

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How Much Is Mar-a-Lago Worth?

Recall that this question was a major bone of contention at the 2023–24 trial of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud suit...

17.03.2026 20

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Anthropic Sues Trump Administration over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Designation

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence giant, has sued the Trump administration over the Defense Department’s designation of the firm as a “supply...

09.03.2026 20

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