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Biden’s Real Power Move Would Be to Pardon Trump

President Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter Biden ended the nearly decade-long prosecution of his only surviving son and immediately provoked the...

03.12.2024 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 Legal Nightmare Is Far From Over

Shan Wu is a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno With one 165-page filing, Special Counsel Jack Smith may...

03.10.2024 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Trump Scores Big Win: He Won’t Be Tried Before the Election

Shan Wu is a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno. Scheduling hearings in criminal trials are normally all...

06.09.2024 5

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Jack Smith’s Herculean Battle Behind New Trump Indictment

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s superseding indictment of former President Donald Trump in the Jan. 6 election interference case makes me wonder if...

28.08.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Why Is Special Prosecutor Jack Smith Asking for More Time in Trump Jan. 6 Case?

Shan Wu is a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno Some devilry may be afoot within the U.S. Justice...

10.08.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Justice Gorsuch’s Warning to Biden Should Warn Us All—About the Supreme Court

Shan Wu is a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno As part of promoting his new book, Overruled, in which he...

06.08.2024 60

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Trump’s Jan. 6 Case Could Still Blow Up Before the Election

Shan Wu is a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno Contrary to the wishful thinking of former President...

03.08.2024 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Biden Is Right: It’s Time to Fix a Very Broken Supreme Court

Shan Wu is a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno President Biden unveiled his promised Supreme Court...

31.07.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Was It a Mistake to Use a Special Counsel to Prosecute Trump?

Shan Wu is a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno Judge Aileen Cannon seems to have found a perfect way to...

16.07.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: I Went Toe to Toe With Jim Jordan in Congress. What a Circus!

Shan Wu is a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I was invited...

13.07.2024 40

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Today, I Saw the Grim Brutality of a Conservative Supreme Court Close Up

The announcement of the Presidential immunity decision today in Trump versus United States was a grim affair. As a first-time audience member for the...

02.07.2024 90

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: SCOTUS Justices Are Mad With Power After Chevron Reversal

The reversal of the Chevron case by the young Turks, angry old men, and Chief Justice John Roberts who make up the Supreme Court’s conservative...

29.06.2024 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: SCOTUS Justices Treat the Court Like a Culture War Town Hall

On its face, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a challenge by the Biden administration to Tennessee’s ban on transition care for...

25.06.2024 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: These Fractures in the Supreme Court Threaten to Sink It

The Supreme Court’s once shiny surface is fracturing before our eyes. It may be hard to identify where or when the damage first began, but the...

22.06.2024 7

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Supreme Court Abortion Pill Ruling Is No Victory for Women’s Rights

To borrow a phrase, the import of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision preserving access to an abortion pill is a “tale told by an idiot, full...

14.06.2024 30

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Hunter Biden Can Thank Merrick Garland for His Conviction

11.06.2024 5

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Hunter Biden Prosecutors Might’ve Already Lost the Jury

The Hunter Biden trial starting in Wilmington, Delaware, is a poster-child case for potential jury nullification. Biden, the only surviving son of...

05.06.2024 40

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Here’s Who Trump Should Blame: His Lawyers

By the time the jury reached its verdict finding former President Donald J. Trump guilty on all 34 counts of the charges brought by Manhattan District...

31.05.2024 60

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Trump’s Defense Was About as Strong as Childhood Name-Calling

There is little doubt as to which side in the Trump hush-money trial did a better job in closing arguments. Todd Blanche barely stopped short of...

29.05.2024 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: How Trump’s Defense Could Salvage Its Inept Case at Hush-Money Trial

No one can predict a criminal jury verdict with anything approaching scientific accuracy. This includes lawyers, judges, and, most certainly,...

27.05.2024 50

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Justice Alito’s Jan. 6 Flags Are a Desperate Wake-Up Call for the DOJ

There is no better example of the current skewed state of checks and balances in American government than Justice Samuel Alito’s penchant for...

23.05.2024 50

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Donald Trump’s Defense Case Just Helped the Prosecution

Trump’s defense team rested their case on Tuesday after putting on what The New York Times described as a “minimal defense.” The Times likely...

22.05.2024 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Trump Defense’s ‘Gotcha’ Moments Failed Against Prosecution’s Strength

The prosecution rested its case in the New York Trump trial, which means that they are finished presenting their evidence. Now the defense has a...

21.05.2024 60

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: The Vilification of Michael Cohen

13.05.2024 30

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: Trump’s Lawyers Bullying Stormy Daniels Is a Risky Strategy

08.05.2024 30

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Opinion: The Real ‘Sleaze’ Factor in Trump’s New York Trial

The real sleazy part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump for election interference isn’t...

07.05.2024 80

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Is This Legal Strategy Trump’s Last Hope in Hush-Money Case?

As his criminal trial gets underway with opening statements and the presentation of the first prosecution witness, defendant Donald Trump’s defense...

24.04.2024 40

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Columbia’s Protest Crackdown Is Another Free Speech Blunder

There is a simple solution to the student protests at Columbia University and a growing number of other campuses over the Israel-Hamas war:...

23.04.2024 30

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Trump Needs a Will Smith-Style Gag Order (Minus the Slap)

Despite a feeling of one step forward and two steps back Thursday morning, the jury in the Manhattan District Attorney’s election interference case...

19.04.2024 30

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Trump’s Hardest Fight May Be Staying Awake in Court

It may turn out that the one thing Donald Trump cannot get away with is sleeping in court. As a young prosecutor, I was part of a legal team on a case...

16.04.2024 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Trump’s Attacks on Judges and Prosecutors Are Dangerous. Gag Him Completely

Judges and prosecutors seem so afraid of violating Donald Trump’s First Amendment rights that they are undermining the integrity of the criminal...

01.04.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Stormy Daniels’ New Movie Is No Reason to Dismiss the Trump Case

Former President Donald Trump faces state charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of falsifying business records in order to...

20.03.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

The Judge’s Ruling on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis Is a Mess

Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday morning that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is not disqualified from prosecuting the cases against...

16.03.2024 30

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Republicans’ Hunter Biden Witch Hunt Is an Epic Fail

The months of fruitless effort by the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee to unearth evidence supporting an...

29.02.2024 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump Is Stronger Than You Think

Former President Donald J. Trump just can’t shake Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg off him. While Trump is on the verge of successfully...

22.02.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

The Case for Disqualifying Fani Willis Makes No Sense

On the day after Valentine’s Day, the judge presiding over the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and 18 of...

15.02.2024 50

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Special Counsel Robert Hur’s Report on Biden’s Classified Documents Is Partisan and Unprofessional

As part of his Don Quixote-like quest to avoid criticism, Attorney General Merrick Garland has binged on special counsel appointments throughout his...

09.02.2024 6

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Be Prepared for a Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling in Trump’s Favor

The only question left after today’s Supreme Court arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be disqualified is how many different...

09.02.2024 30

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

The Jury Went Easy on Trump by Only Awarding Carroll $83.3M

Years ago, as a young prosecutor, I won a sexual assault case and the survivor in that case wrote to the court saying “I know Mr. Wu says we won the...

27.01.2024 6

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Trump Would Be a Rogue Cop With Presidential Immunity

As we await the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on whether former President Donald J. Trump is immune from prosecution, the former president has...

24.01.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Calm Down, the Allegations Against Fani Willis Won’t Put Trump’s Georgia Prosecution at Risk

There is something to worry about in a motion filed today by a Donald Trump co-defendant seeking to dismiss the indictment and disqualify Fulton...

09.01.2024 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Chief Justice John Roberts’ AI Report Reads Like an Old Robot Wrote It

Chief Justice John Roberts issued his 2023 year-end report for a year in which the U.S. Supreme Court suffered a historic loss in credibility caused...

04.01.2024 8

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Here’s What SCOTUS Should Do With the Trump Ballot Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court needs to understand that the disqualification of former President Donald J. Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment from...

30.12.2023 20

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Why Trump and His GOP Henchwoman Will Regret That Michigan Phone Call

When Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel helped former President Donald Trump pressure two Michigan elections officials to not...

23.12.2023 70

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Colorado’s Trump Ballot Ruling Just Gave the U.S. Supreme Court a Shot at Redemption

The Colorado Supreme Court handed the United States Supreme Court a chance to staunch the high court’s credibility bleed-out. In ruling that former...

21.12.2023 40

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Trump, Elon Musk, and Billionaire ‘Populists’ Threaten Democracy and Freedom

Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara in 1921 described a weather phenomenon in which two tropical cyclones begin to interact with each other with...

13.12.2023 10

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

Why Hunter Biden’s Tax Indictment Is an Embarrassment to the DOJ

The latest indictment of Hunter Biden adds to an embarrassing series of missteps in this case that makes the Department of Justice look petty and...

09.12.2023 80

The Daily Beast

Shan Wu

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