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Even by Trump standards, it is just appalling that the administration would consider making business deals with Vladimir Putin’s murderous...
In mid-July, I related that the Trump administration had brought the first ever application to the Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC) to have an...
I’ve been following Dan’s analyses of the litigation involving President Trump’s attempt to use the Post Office’s limited and basically...
Over the holiday weekend, we ran my three-part series on President Trump’s de facto seizure from Venezuela of oil reserves that, putatively, would...
The New York Times drafted four of its all-star journos to crank out an incensed report that dozens of military officials have been administered...
Over the last few years, I’ve several times addressed a problem with no satisfying answer: what to do about terrorists who should be executed for...
With no comment, meaning no reported dissent, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to rehear President Trump’s appeal of the first E. Jean Carroll...
To follow up on this morning’s post, Luigi Mangione did plead guilty today in Manhattan federal court. The Trump Justice Department in the Southern...
On hiatus, a friend brought to my attention reports that Luigi Mangione may plead guilty on Friday to charges stemming from the murder of United...
I’ve already had plenty to say about the farce that has been Todd Blanche’s confirmation proceeding in the Senate Judiciary Committee (here, here,...
As discussed here yesterday, Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general remains in limbo because two Republicans on the Senate Judiciary...
I’ve said publicly that I can’t support President Trump’s nomination of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to become the Senate-confirmed...
In mid-July, I explained that there is nothing dead about the outrageous “Anti-Weaponization Fund” — a raid on the public fisc ginned up as part...
Back in May, I explained that the Justice Department’s indictment of President Trump’s nemesis, former FBI Director James Comey, would not...
The man alleged to have ignited an explosive fire at the entrance of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in lower Manhattan was charged Tuesday in...
Law enforcement agencies have identified the suspect in this morning’s attack on the federal building in lower Manhattan as Andrew John Arrabaca,...
An incendiary device was detonated outside 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan this morning. That building is the headquarters of the FBI’s New York...
The so-called Anti-Weaponization Fund was a point of contention at last week’s Senate confirmation hearing on President Trump’s nomination of Todd...
A new immigration enforcement controversy is simmering as the Trump administration continues to push the boundaries of its authority in unprecedented...
Traveling Wednesday kept me from listening to all but the first couple of hours of Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing in the Senate on his...
A month ago, I related that, after nominating his Manhattan U.S. attorney, Jay Clayton, to become director of national intelligence in an effort to...
On his private Truth Social platform (where else), the president of the United States has announced a new government policy: American armed forces...
Lindsey Graham was an American patriot. His first priority was always to protect the United States, and his first instinct in this regard was to...
An update from my post yesterday regarding the state of play in the Carroll v. Trump litigation. As related there, Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday...
The president has moved the Supreme Court to reconsider its end-of-term ruling that the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship to nearly all...
In 2021, President Trump described cryptocurrency as a scam that could undermine the U.S. dollar. Yesterday, on the eve of the long holiday weekend...
On this much anticipated and duly momentous SCOTUS day, let me begin by congratulating Rich on the demise of Humphrey’s Executor, a Supreme Court...
President Trump is threatening oil companies with Justice Department action (politicized lawfare, really) because gas prices are not decreasing at a...
The Trump Justice Department has quietly dropped its initiative to force journalists to testify about their sources in leak investigations. Last...
Today is slated to be the effective date of President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte, his director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as...
Not that anyone will do anything about it, but President Trump’s capitulatory memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran is the predicate for what...
Last week, I related that President Trump had nominated Jay Clayton, his Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to...
More news along the lines of my last post regarding credible reports that the Trump administration has agreed with Iran that the United States will...
To repeat what I contended yesterday, they think we’re idiots. Let’s take it down to the simple basics. Trump’s agreement with Iran is not an...
Again, it’s the Trump administration’s own fault that there is speculation (some educated, some not) about the terms of its memorandum of...
Not surprisingly, the Trump administration is still not publicizing its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the jihadist Iranian regime. It is...
Few will mourn the recent killing of Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores. Flores was the alleged leader of Tren de Aragua (TdA), better known by his...
President Trump’s nomination of Jay Clayton to be the next director of national intelligence has not only gotten a warm reception on Capitol Hill....
In a post this morning (following one from Wednesday), I explained that President Trump was appealing to congressional Democrats to agree to a...
Everyone should read Dan’s excellent post on the Supreme Court’s decision today regarding what the proper venue is for a crime. I write only to...
I posted late yesterday about how President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress were trying to entice the Democratic minorities in both chambers...
Facing significant blowback from Congress and the possibility of losing intelligence-gathering authority, while the nation is at war no less,...
What’s next, a clip from Bananas? Actually, truth being stranger than fiction, I don’t think President Trump needs to keep reposting lefty catnip...
President Trump announced — on Truth Social, of course — that Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter flying near the Strait of Hormuz. No...
There have been interesting developments regarding President Trump’s naming of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence (DNI), which I...
Unlike some other appointments, President Trump’s naming of Tulsi Gabbard to serve as national intelligence director was not something I could get...
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that President Trump and the board of trustees he installed may not rename the John F. Kennedy Center...
A federal court in Alexandria, Va., has issued an injunction against the Trump administration’s establishment of the so-called Anti-Weaponization...
At his cabinet meeting today, President Trump had some bracing things to say about the Iran war, which, he noted, he calls a “conflict” — at...
I don’t believe former FBI Director James Comey will ever be tried on the Trump Justice Department’s inane charges that he threatened to kill the...