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Ruth Marcus

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Warning to law firms: Stand up for the rule of law while you can

02.03.2025 300

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No rubber stamp for the Eric Adams case judge

19.02.2025 40

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A dangerous, damaging civil war at the Justice Department

16.02.2025 100

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Can the courts — can anyone — stop Trump?

08.02.2025 80

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Trump’s federal spending power grab is far from over

30.01.2025 9

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The birthright citizenship ban is a losing hand. Why play it?

29.01.2025 70

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The Justice Department becomes Trump’s instrument of revenge

29.01.2025 100

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Pardon me: What were the folks at DOGE thinking?

26.01.2025 60

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Battleground DOJ: How Trump is waging war on the so-called deep state

26.01.2025 100

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Trump’s Friday night massacre is blatantly illegal

26.01.2025 400

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Biden’s pardons were disappointing. Trump’s are worse.

22.01.2025 50

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Big Tech’s power surge

21.01.2025 30

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Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi: Qualified but questionable

17.01.2025 80

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At the Hegseth hearing, GOP senators covered themselves in shame

15.01.2025 300

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The Supreme Court’s ‘no’ to Trump was dangerously close to ‘yes’

11.01.2025 40

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Hush-money judge on Trump: ‘Premeditated and continuous deception’

In the matter of Donald J. Trump, the criminal justice system failed egregiously to hold the once and future president accountable. It’s almost...

06.01.2025 100

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The head-spinning chutzpah of Trump’s TikTok brief

04.01.2025 100

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The chief justice takes a swipe at JD Vance

John G. Roberts Jr., in his year-end report on the federal judiciary, didn’t call out JD Vance by name. But the chief justice took an unmistakable...

02.01.2025 200

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Will GOP senators resist Trump on Cabinet picks?

13.12.2024 10

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If Chris Wray is stepping down, can anyone stand up to Donald Trump?

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray shouldn’t have made it so easy for Donald Trump. When he becomes president in 40 days, Trump will have the...

12.12.2024 30

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Yes, it’s tempting, but Biden should refrain from preemptive pardons

Desperate times call for desperate measures. But not so desperate as having President Joe Biden issue preemptive pardons to government officials...

11.12.2024 10

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Biden had good reason to pardon Hunter. Except he promised he’d never do it.

“For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth,” President Joe Biden said in his statement...

02.12.2024 4

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A dangerous and unqualified choice for the FBI

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of uber-loyalist Kash Patel to be FBI director is a hair-on-fire moment. Trump is poised to install a team of...

02.12.2024 200

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Four ways Trump will undermine the authority of Congress

While a worried nation tries to make sense of Donald Trump’s spate of unqualified, extreme nominees, the president-elect is setting the stage for...

23.11.2024 100

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Gaetz is out. But hold the celebration.

“There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle,” wrote Matt Gaetz, the former congressman and, as of 12:24 p.m., former...

22.11.2024 20

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The House speaker’s pathetic case for deep-sixing the Gaetz ethics report

House Speaker Mike Johnson, fresh from seeing the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago, has changed his hands-off views about the House Ethics Committee’s...

19.11.2024 100

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Welcome to the Donald Trump Amateur Hour. Can democracy survive it?

It took Donald Trump scarcely a week to demonstrate his utter contempt for the government he is about to lead, culminating in his choice of Matt...

15.11.2024 100

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Trump’s recess appointments gambit? A power grab hiding in plain sight.

Even before he takes office, President-elect Donald Trump is setting the stage for an unprecedented presidential power grab. In a social media post...

12.11.2024 100

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As Jack Smith winds up his cases, Team Trump cranks up the retribution

And so, it begins. Elon Musk, the X owner and shadow president-elect, posted about the special counsel who prosecuted Donald Trump, “Jack Smith’s...

11.11.2024 100

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Impromptu after the election: ‘It’s still sinking in’

08.11.2024 10

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Into the nervy climax of the 2024 elections

No matter what happens in the next 24 hours, it will have been a historic presidential race. On the latest episode of “Impromptu,” Ruth Marcus,...

05.11.2024 5

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States try anew to curb abortion meds, claiming they’re protecting women

Donald Trump has threatened to “protect” women, “whether the women like it or not.” If this bullying paternalism doesn’t sit well with you,...

04.11.2024 4

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The sad demise of Grizzly 399 — and the success story behind her life

JACKSON, Wyo. — “There has never been a bear in history that has beaten the odds like 399,” her quasi-official photographer, Thomas D....

01.11.2024 20

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A bad omen ahead of Tuesday: Justices meddle in Va. voter purge case

The Supreme Court, over the dissent of its three liberal justices, issued an unsigned order on Wednesday allowing Virginia to purge about 1,600...

31.10.2024 100

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At Madison Square Garden on Sunday: A diseased idea of America

“I don’t think anybody has ever seen anything like what happened the other night at Madison Square Garden,” Donald Trump said of his racist,...

30.10.2024 100

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For The Post, the wrong choice at the worst possible time

I love The Washington Post, deep in my bones. Last month marked my 40th year of proud work for the institution, in the newsroom and in the Opinions...

26.10.2024 550

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Anxious about the election? Here’s how I’m coping.

25.10.2024 60

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The one thing JD Vance has been right about so far

15.10.2024 90

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Jack Smith just wants to prosecute his case against Donald Trump

“COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE,” Donald Trump complained of special counsel Jack Smith’s lengthy filing in the 2020 election...

12.10.2024 60

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Tony Dokoupil’s tough questions on Israel were good journalism

10.10.2024 70

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The thin joy of the new year, the horror of the one just concluded

The traditional wish for Rosh Hashanah, the new year that Jews celebrated last week, is for a sweet new year. The traditional wish for Yom Kippur,...

09.10.2024 30

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JD Vance is a dangerous, disciplined shape-shifter

03.10.2024 100

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Women are not ‘community property,’ a Georgia judge rules

02.10.2024 400

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‘A true friend of Turkey’: Four writers on the Eric Adams indictment

28.09.2024 20

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Harris is wrong about eliminating the filibuster for abortion rights

26.09.2024 20

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Preemptively blaming Jews, Trump crosses a dangerous line

Donald Trump has always had an odd — and, frankly, offensive — way of talking to and about Jews. As much as he seeks to inoculate himself from any...

23.09.2024 400

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Abortion ruling leads to an all-too-preventable death in Georgia

21.09.2024 100

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Time is running out to put Biden-named judges on the federal bench

19.09.2024 40

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Sarah Sanders’s crude swipes at Kamala Harris notch a new low for GOP

Enough. “My kids keep me humble,” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders preened, thereby disproving her own claim. “Unfortunately, Kamala...

19.09.2024 300

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Laura Loomer is the symptom. The real problem is Donald Trump.

It’s impossible, unproductive and, frankly, tedious to respond to every Trump outrage. So I try to pick my shots and spare readers what would...

16.09.2024 100

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