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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
Among Donald Trump’s many disconcerting campaign promises is a pledge to fire tens of thousands of federal employees and replace them with...
Without Trump, there would be no such thing as criminal immunity for presidents.
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...
Even if Harris were to pardon Trump, it’s hard to imagine it accomplishing the national healing that such “amnesty” pardons are designed to...
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...
Judge McBurney acknowledged Georgia’s competing interest in fetal life, but rejected the state’s claim that anyone who engages in or facilitates...
Prosecutors and the victim’s family urged that he be spared based on DNA evidence showing that Williams was in fact innocent.
Biden’s sudden about-face in a Los Angeles federal courtroom last week — pleading guilty to nine tax-related criminal charges shortly before trial...
Trump has put the presidential pardon power on the ballot this year in at least three different ways, underscoring a dire need for congressional...
Picking through the high court’s disastrously ambiguous immunity ruling to divine a strategy for salvaging the prosecution is a daunting project.
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...
Like much of the Constitution, the language establishing the pardon power is vague.
Let’s consider what the Constitution actually says about immunity.
Thankfully, a modicum of reason has made its way into a contingent of the far-right majority.
Thankfully, a modicum of reason has made its way into a contingent of the far-right majority.
The source of the structural imbalances in our electoral system isn’t Congress. It’s the conservatives on the court.
The fact that prosecutors don’t use a statute very often is not a reason for nullifying it.
Perry’s pardon tortured the righteous justifications for the pardon power by conspicuously using it to incite division — not to remedy a severe...
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...
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.
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...
The scope of First Amendment protections are widely misunderstood in America.
Two juries in Michigan apparently agreed that handguns must be locked away from kids.
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...