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James D. Zirin, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a law requiring TikTok to divest its Chinese ownership if it wants to keep operating,...
Is South Korea’s legislative rejection of an autocratic president’s declaration of martial law a one-off — or an object lesson for...
It is a given that Patel as FBI director would not act independently of the president.
Even conservative senators should find Vought problematic.
Trump has appointed people to his cabinet whose cardinal virtue appears to be loyalty to him — not to the Constitution.
If Trump allows Putin to succeed with his move on Ukraine, the next tempting morsel on his plate may be the tiny Republic of Moldova.
Some might be excused for being fooled by Trump in 2016, but they will not be fooled again.
It had emerged in 2022 that a key item of exculpatory evidence had not been turned over to the defense.
Smith could have waited a month. There was no hurry.
Adams loved to live high on the hog, particularly at the expense of others.
I can’t bear to say this, but Kamala Harris, while ahead by a whisker, could lose if Trump succeeds in bringing new likely voters into the...
The Supreme Court has become a political clubhouse, consumed with optics, log-rolling and media leaks.
Nothing could erase the overwhelming impression that Harris is a normal reasonable candidate, and that Trump is by any metric so bereft of temperament...
Like the seasoned lawyer that she is, Kamala Harris took on Donald Trump point by point, with prosecutorial efficiency, and achieved her two...
While I admire Smith’s deft attempt to maneuver his way through the labyrinth of Supreme Court verbiage and prosecute Trump for those elements of...
It is not just the Supreme Court that has failed to hold Trump accountable, it is the prosecutors charged with enforcing the rule of law.
When it comes to politically charged issues, the partisan, sharply divided Supreme Court justices rarely agree on anything. But they did agree last...
I am no fan of Donald Trump. I am no fan of vigilante justice either.
The Supreme Court needs reform if it is ever to regain public confidence.
What has become of America?
Donald Trump has denied any knowledge of the Heritage Foundation's 2025 Presidential Transition Project, which outlines a plan for an authoritarian...
The Supreme Court's conservative majority has given President Trump broad immunity from criminal prosecution, leaving the lower courts and American...
The term of the Supreme Court of the United States that just ended will live in infamy.
Reading the cold transcript, we get a very different picture of Biden. Substantively, he ably and forcefully made the case that that Trump should not...
Alito cannot be accused of the even-handed application of the law.
Flanked by other MAGA Republican leaders, Johnson chose to appear in the courtroom the day porn actress Stormy Daniels gave testimony about her sordid...
Trump despises the legal system and the rule of law, except when it serves his interests.
Trump vowed to appeal, but he is unlikely to fare very well.
I don’t think there will be a hung jury here. The evidence against Trump is so overwhelming that my bet is on a unanimous verdict of conviction.
Alito acts like a legislator — a politician in robes.
The concern will be that the jury expects Trump to take the stand — as does the ultimate jury, the American voters who make up the court of...
Cross examination has rightfully been called an art. It is the drama of the law.
No wonder the public perceives the justices not as jurists but as politicians in robes.
There really should be no legal obstacle to his giving the trial a pass and hitting the campaign trail, or luxuriating on the golf course at...
There are difficulties in picking an impartial panel in a city where a celebrity defendant is widely loathed.
Trump said he could murder someone on Fifth Avenue and his base wouldn’t care, just as Simpson murdered two people and his base didn’t care.
Trump’s attacks on the Merchans are two-pronged and are nothing new.
This is not a left/right issue. Threatening judges and their families, and exposing them to violence, crosses a red line in any civilized society.
Judge Scot McAfee’s 23-page opinion reads like a chapter from a paperback novel found at an airport newsstand.
Judges are not supposed to rewrite constitutional provisions they find objectionable on policy grounds, and they are not supposed to invent new...
With the clock running out, and the Supreme Court having no appetite for proceeding on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s timetable, it seems more likely...
It is extraordinary, in my experience, for a court to enjoin the start of a criminal trial. But this is an extraordinary case.
Jason C. Murray was articulate and plainly spoken in his maiden oral argument before the court, but the answers he gave to the justices’ questions...
The justice system is supposed to work for the people. But in Trump’s case, it may not.
Retired conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig has just filed a devastating amicus brief in which he sticks it to the conservatives on the bench by...
Trump is not running for anything; he is running against. He is running against politics. He is running against democracy.
Trump's lawyer argued for a sweeping immunity that would put the president above and beyond the law. It’s a world that no American should want to...
The reactionary Supreme Court is in a quandary as to how to decide the Trump disqualification case while retaining whatever credibility it has left.
There are no good options for the six Republican-appointed justices on the beleaguered Supreme Court.
The decision is not a gift to the unpopular President Biden. It is a gift to Trump’s Republican primary opponents.