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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...
I am an ardent admirer of Elliott Abrams, but I find his column today, lamenting that Iran has been taken over by terrorists, as if that just...
Yesterday afternoon, I posted about my skepticism of claims in a New York Times report, relying on unnamed intelligence sources, to the effect that...
In a column earlier today, I said I’d separately address U.S. intelligence leaks to the New York Times, indicating that “Iran has restored...
Yesterday, the Federal Circuit issued an administrative stay, suspending last week’s ruling by a divided three-judge panel of United States Court of...
On Friday, I posted on the ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of International Trade (CIT), holding that the 10 percent...
While the Iran War continues — despite the Trump administration’s claims that it is not a war and has terminated even as the antagonists blockade...
The United States Court of International Trade (CIT), in a 2–1 ruling, has invalidated the tariffs President Trump imposed in purported reliance on...
President Trump’s dereliction in failing to prepare the nation for war with Iran, and his inconstancy about the war’s objectives -- and even...
My weekend column addresses the implausibility of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s claim, in Senate testimony, that the so-called cease-fire ordered...
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