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House Republicans Block Proposal for Congressional Vote on Trump’s Tariff ‘Emergency’

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What’s the Best Argument for Columbia Agitator’s Arrest and Deportation?

What’s the Best Argument for Columbia Agitator’s Arrest and Deportation?
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The Problem with Executing Spies

The Problem with Executing Spies
09.03.2025 7

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Amicus in Mayor Adams Case Recommends Dismissal with Prejudice

Amicus in Mayor Adams Case Recommends Dismissal with Prejudice
09.03.2025 7

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Divided Supreme Court Admonishes Judge Ali to ‘Clarify’ His Order but Otherwise Rebuffs Trump on Pausing Foreign Aid Payments

Divided Supreme Court Admonishes Judge Ali to ‘Clarify’ His Order but Otherwise Rebuffs Trump on Pausing Foreign Aid Payments
06.03.2025 10

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Would Derek Chauvin Want a Pardon from President Trump in the George Floyd Case?

Would Derek Chauvin Want a Pardon from President Trump in the George Floyd Case?
05.03.2025 20

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Congress’s Tariff Power and the Legislative Veto

Congress’s Tariff Power and the Legislative Veto
05.03.2025 10

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DOJ Will Appeal Obama Judge’s Inevitable Ruling That Trump Can’t Fire Special Counsel

DOJ Will Appeal Obama Judge’s Inevitable Ruling That Trump Can’t Fire Special Counsel
04.03.2025 30

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Chief Justice Roberts Stays District Judge’s Order That Trump Administration Pay $2 Billion in Frozen Foreign Aid

28.02.2025 4

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AG Bondi’s ‘Weaponization’ Directive Peddles President Trump’s Political Narratives

AG Bondi’s ‘Weaponization’ Directive Peddles President Trump’s Political Narratives
19.02.2025 10

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Judge Chutkan Signals That She Will Deny Blue States’ Effort to Block DOGE

18.02.2025 30

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We Must Employ Lawfare to Stop Lawfare!

17.02.2025 20

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This Is Not Restoring the Way the Justice Department Is Supposed to Work

16.02.2025 9

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Trump Admin Fires Four FEMA Employees over Support Payments for Illegal Aliens in New York City

13.02.2025 4

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As Expected, Trump DOJ Drops Appeal Against the Co-Defendants in Trump’s Documents Case

30.01.2025 10

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Trump Appeals Manhattan Convictions

30.01.2025 10

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The Left and Political Violence, Yet Again

24.01.2025 30

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The Preemptive Pardons

21.01.2025 30

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We Told You the Shameful Last-Minute Biden Pardons Were Coming

21.01.2025 20

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A Bad Deal for Israel . . . and America

20.01.2025 30

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Will Trump Extend the TikTok Deadline?

18.01.2025 4

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As a Convicted Felon, Trump Faces Foreign Travel Restrictions

14.01.2025 10

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Supremes Lock Merchan into No-Jail Sentence for Trump

11.01.2025 7

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Jack Smith’s Investigation Is Officially Closed

10.01.2025 30

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Trump Turns to Supremes in Plea to Halt Friday Sentencing

09.01.2025 10

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NY Appeals Court to Hear Trump Challenge to Merchan’s Ruling, Sentencing Order

In an extraordinary development, the Appellate Division, First Department, scheduled oral argument at 12:30 p.m. on President-elect Trump’s appeal...

08.01.2025 5

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UPDATE: Judge Cannon Bars DOJ and Jack Smith from Releasing Final Mar-a-Lago Report

08.01.2025 8

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Appeals Court Judge Denies Trump’s Emergency Motion to Delay Sentencing

An appeals court judge has denied President-elect Trump’s motion to delay the sentencing set for Friday while he appeals the rulings of the lower...

08.01.2025 6

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Mr. Attorney General, How Many Capitol Riot Murder Charges Did You Bring?

Illustrating yet again that Democrats haven’t come to grips with why they lost the election and what Americans think of their politicization of law...

07.01.2025 10

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Merchan Denies Trump’s Attempt to Delay Friday Sentencing

As we anticipated last Friday, President-elect Trump is appealing Judge Juan Merchan’s ruling, issued late Friday afternoon, denying Trump’s post-...

07.01.2025 20

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Judge Merchan Wants to Sentence Trump Next Friday

05.01.2025 20

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Terrorism Reporting and Fog of War

On New Year’s morning, we were trying to distill the various media reports and government statements about circumstances surrounding the terrorist...

04.01.2025 10

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New Year’s Terrorist Attack in New Orleans

It’s not bad enough that we are forced to begin 2025 by grappling with a horrific terrorist mass-murder attack on revelers in New Orleans; we are...

02.01.2025 20

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Dead New Orleans Terror Suspect IDed as Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar; Truck He Used Crossed into Texas from Mexico

The New York Times reports that the suspect in this morning’s terrorist attack in New Orleans has been identified as Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar. (See...

02.01.2025 5

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Biden’s Corrupt Pardon of Death Row Inmates

Last week, as we covered here, the Biden Justice Department filed a death penalty charge against Luigi Mangione, the alleged cold-blooded killer of...

24.12.2024 80

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After State Indicts Mangione for Terrorist Murder, Feds Charge Him with Capital Murder

21.12.2024 20

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On Georgia Appeals Court’s Disqualification of Fani Willis from Trump Case

As our James Lynch reports, a state appeals court in Georgia has disqualified Fulton County’s elected Democratic district attorney Fani Willis and...

20.12.2024 6

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The Left and Political Violence (Cont’d . . . and Cont’d . . . and Cont’d . . .)

12.12.2024 6

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Why Isn’t Luigi Mangione Charged with First-Degree Murder?

12.12.2024 10

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Unbelievable: At Bragg’s Insistence, Judge Dismisses the Reckless Homicide Count to Force Jury to Consider Negligent Homicide

In Daniel Penny’s homicide trial, the jury has been deliberating on one charge, reckless homicide (second-degree manslaughter), for four days, over...

08.12.2024 40

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Penny Jury Deadlocked on Manslaughter Count

On today’s fourth day of deliberations, the New York Post reports that the jury in the homicide trial in Manhattan has sent the court a note saying...

07.12.2024 5

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More on Deadlocked Penny Jury Deliberations

As I noted a bit earlier, when the jury reported to Judge Maxwell Wiley that it was deadlocked on the count one second-degree manslaughter...

07.12.2024 20

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Justification Defense Is the Complication in Penny Deliberations

On X, Marina Medvin has helpfully posted the verdict sheet the jury is working through in the Daniel Penny case. Upon perusing it, you can see why...

07.12.2024 4

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Daniel Penny Jury Begins Deliberating

04.12.2024 6

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Manhattan Scheduling Jujitsu Continues as Trump Seeks Extension of Time to File New Dismissal Motion

27.11.2024 9

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DOJ Housecleaning! 2020 Election Investigations! Talk, Talk, Talk . . .

24.11.2024 20

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On Judge Merchan’s Order Formally Postponing Trump’s Sentencing

23.11.2024 10

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Incoming Border Czar: Sanctuary-City Dems Could Be Prosecuted If They Obstruct Trump’s Enforcement of Immigration Law

21.11.2024 4

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Laken Riley Murder Trial Under Way in Georgia

16.11.2024 10

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Read Ed Whelan on Recess-Appointment Scheme to Circumvent Senate Confirmation

15.11.2024 2

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