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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

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Say goodbye to federal protections and hello to Trump’s advancing loyalist army 

Among Donald Trump’s many disconcerting campaign promises is a pledge to fire tens of thousands of federal employees and replace them with...

12.12.2024 4

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

How Trump has changed and will change the Constitution

Without Trump, there would be no such thing as criminal immunity for presidents.

27.11.2024 9

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Here's what's standing in the way of Trump getting whatever he wants

It’s unlikely that Trump can turn the country into a dictatorship with a few strokes of a pen. The courts are working in America, the sprawling...

13.11.2024 10

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

A presidential pardon for Trump is a very bad idea

Even if Harris were to pardon Trump, it’s hard to imagine it accomplishing the national healing that such “amnesty” pardons are designed to...

30.10.2024 10

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Supreme Court seems skeptical on emergency abortions

Last week, the court left in place a lower federal court ruling in Texas that bans the Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing a...

16.10.2024 10

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Voters should read this Georgia judge’s abortion ruling

Judge McBurney acknowledged Georgia’s competing interest in fetal life, but rejected the state’s claim that anyone who engages in or facilitates...

02.10.2024 30

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Was an innocent man just executed in Missouri?

Prosecutors and the victim’s family urged that he be spared based on DNA evidence showing that Williams was in fact innocent.

25.09.2024 20

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Is Hunter Biden deserving of a presidential pardon?

Biden’s sudden about-face in a Los Angeles federal courtroom last week — pleading guilty to nine tax-related criminal charges shortly before trial...

11.09.2024 10

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Trump abused the pardon power and promises to do so again

Trump has put the presidential pardon power on the ballot this year in at least three different ways, underscoring a dire need for congressional...

28.08.2024 30

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Has the Supreme Court made the Jan. 6 case against Trump impossible?

Picking through the high court’s disastrously ambiguous immunity ruling to divine a strategy for salvaging the prosecution is a daunting project.

14.08.2024 10

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Lessons from a forgotten presidential assassination attempt

While the Secret Service reels over the security lapses that contributed to the assassination attempt at a Trump rally on July 13, most Americans have...

02.08.2024 3

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

A frightening thought experiment: A murderous president with criminal immunity

Like much of the Constitution, the language establishing the pardon power is vague.

17.07.2024 9

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Trump immunity decision shows that conservative ‘originalism’ is a farce

Let’s consider what the Constitution actually says about immunity.

02.07.2024 8

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Supreme Court gives American women some half-hearted wins

Thankfully, a modicum of reason has made its way into a contingent of the far-right majority.

28.06.2024 6

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Supreme Court gives American women some half-hearted wins

Thankfully, a modicum of reason has made its way into a contingent of the far-right majority.

28.06.2024 3

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Another blow to American democracy from the Supreme Court

The source of the structural imbalances in our electoral system isn’t Congress. It’s the conservatives on the court.

19.06.2024 50

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump was novel — and correct

The fact that prosecutors don’t use a statute very often is not a reason for nullifying it.

05.06.2024 20

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

The pardon of Daniel Perry in Texas charts a new, alarming course

Perry’s pardon tortured the righteous justifications for the pardon power by conspicuously using it to incite division — not to remedy a severe...

29.05.2024 30

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Trump’s defense team has only one strategy left

Unless the jury decides that the crimes Trump is facing should not be crimes, or at least not actions that should render a former president a...

15.05.2024 50

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

The massive constitutional implications of the Idaho abortion case

If the Supreme Court enhances states’ ability to flout the will of Congress, this case could wind up rocking the nation for years to come.

01.05.2024 10

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Zombie anti-abortion laws are menacing American women

The primary flaw in Alito’s reasoning was his utter disregard for the interests of women in the face of governmental intervention in family planning...

17.04.2024 6

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Trump’s legal claims about ‘political speech’ are full of hot air

The scope of First Amendment protections are widely misunderstood in America.

03.04.2024 40

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

The Crumbley family verdicts flow from America’s failed gun laws

Two juries in Michigan apparently agreed that handguns must be locked away from kids.

20.03.2024 8

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Will presidents be kings? The Supreme Court seems to be leaning that way.

Armed with rulings green-lighting Trump’s Jan. 6 actions, it’s hard to say what would stop a future president from using the powers of the...

06.03.2024 40

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

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