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James D. Zirin, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
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.
Under the Constitution, the defendant is entitled to a speedy trial — and so is the public.
Courts vary as to how they handle “similar act” evidence.
Republicans are right to be concerned about the Santos expulsion. The new standard could be readily applied to Donald Trump.
Frankly, I am worried.
He is not interested in winning battles — he is interested in winning the war, with the ultimate weapon being delay.
If elected, his two federal cases will go away either because he pardons himself or he orders his attorney general to drop the cases.
The series was riddled with falsehoods, particularly when it came to Linda Fairstein.
Trump claims a broad presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for virtually everything he did while in office to try to overturn the 2020...
“A man is not immune from prosecution just because a United States attorney happens not to like him.”
Donald Trump, after keeping everyone in suspense for nearly a month, elected not to seek removal. Let’s examine what is behind his decision to stay...
What Trump unleashed fits even the narrowest definition of insurrection.
Trump put together a band of brothers resembling a mafia org chart.
Much ado about Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution these days.