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The Trump Justice Department has quietly dropped its initiative to force journalists to testify about their sources in leak investigations. Last...
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...
Not that anyone will do anything about it, but President Trump’s capitulatory memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran is the predicate for what...
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...
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...
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...
Again, it’s the Trump administration’s own fault that there is speculation (some educated, some not) about the terms of its memorandum of...
Not surprisingly, the Trump administration is still not publicizing its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the jihadist Iranian regime. It is...
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...
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....
In a post this morning (following one from Wednesday), I explained that President Trump was appealing to congressional Democrats to agree to a...
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...
I posted late yesterday about how President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress were trying to entice the Democratic minorities in both chambers...
Facing significant blowback from Congress and the possibility of losing intelligence-gathering authority, while the nation is at war no less,...
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...
President Trump announced — on Truth Social, of course — that Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter flying near the Strait of Hormuz. No...
There have been interesting developments regarding President Trump’s naming of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence (DNI), which I...
Unlike some other appointments, President Trump’s naming of Tulsi Gabbard to serve as national intelligence director was not something I could get...
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...
A federal court in Alexandria, Va., has issued an injunction against the Trump administration’s establishment of the so-called Anti-Weaponization...
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...
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...
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...
Yesterday afternoon, I posted about my skepticism of claims in a New York Times report, relying on unnamed intelligence sources, to the effect that...
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...
Yesterday, the Federal Circuit issued an administrative stay, suspending last week’s ruling by a divided three-judge panel of United States Court of...
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...
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...
The United States Court of International Trade (CIT), in a 2–1 ruling, has invalidated the tariffs President Trump imposed in purported reliance on...
President Trump’s dereliction in failing to prepare the nation for war with Iran, and his inconstancy about the war’s objectives -- and even...
My weekend column addresses the implausibility of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s claim, in Senate testimony, that the so-called cease-fire ordered...
I’ve noted a number of times that President Trump’s lawfare jihad against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was doubly self-destructive....
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...
If it’s possible, the Trump Justice Department’s new indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is even more absurd than the previous...
Today’s announcement that the Justice Department is dropping its investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was inevitable: The...
Beginning 2025, the Democracy Project at NYU Law School produced a series of essays by legal analysts and commentators from across the political and...
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...
President Trump’s deadline for Iranian capitulation regarding the Strait of Hormuz is just over nine hours away, and he is reaffirming vows to...
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...
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...
Interesting: At the ongoing oral argument of the birthright citizenship case, Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked Solicitor General John Sauer whether...
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the much anticipated oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara. I confess...
A federal court in San Francisco has issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from designating the tech giant Anthropic as a...
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...
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...
Just to be clear, since some of the comments by Trump myrmidons straining to rationalize the president’s disgusting remarks about the death of...
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...
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...
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...
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence giant, has sued the Trump administration over the Defense Department’s designation of the firm as a “supply...