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Elie HonigThe Daily Beast |
If you had told me 20 years ago, when I first met Todd Blanche, that he’d be up for confirmation as attorney general of the United States, I would...
The Reflecting Pool saga encapsulates so much about the politics of the moment: President Donald Trump’s fixation on local vanity projects over...
The Supreme Court is political. [Hold for applause.] It’s one of the easiest taglines in our current public discourse. The Court sits at...
California governor Gavin Newsom seems to wish ever so badly he were the target of a weaponized Justice Department. God knows he’d have plenty of...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has now been formally nominated for the permanent job as the nation’s top law-enforcement official. His quest...
Donald Trump and his Justice Department have begrudgingly accepted that their tragicomically ill-conceived $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization”...
The end has begun for Donald Trump’s universally reviled $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund, and now it’s only a matter of time...
There was never any chance Donald Trump would self-correct his gleeful political abuse of the Justice Department. And despite initial hopes that Todd...
Quick: Which of President Donald Trump’s second-term executive orders currently threatens to do the most damage to our collective political order?...
The evidence against would-be presidential assassin Cole Tomas Allen is overwhelming. Dozens of people saw him run through the Washington Hilton hotel...
When James Comey appears in federal court in North Carolina on Monday, it’ll mostly be about housekeeping. The parties will set schedules for...
Welcome to the new age of insider trading. It’s not only for the Gordon Gekko–type Wall Street barons anymore; now it’s for the Jason Bournes,...
It’s all but a mathematical certainty that Democrats will take the House in November’s midterms. And with Donald Trump’s polling numbers...
Every Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York has that one judge he just can’t escape. Although cases are assigned randomly...
Donald Trump’s next attorney general must meet two job requirements. One is easy and in plentiful supply; the other is impossible. Anyone who takes...
Sometimes if both sides are angry at you, you’re doing something right. Other times, everyone simply agrees that you’re awful — as Pam Bondi has...
If a person is subject to the jurisdiction of both the United States and Mexico, are they subject to the jurisdiction of the United States? The answer...
This is the most transparent Justice Department in the history of the United States and maybe all of human existence. Just ask them. When pressed in...
Even as the Supreme Court has granted Donald Trump expanded presidential powers, it has tried to warn him: Don’t mess with the Fed. But the...
After the Supreme Court struck down his emergency “Liberation Day” tariffs last month, Donald Trump had a public meltdown. The president delivered...
After a prolonged legal standoff, Bill and Hillary Clinton testified last week to the House Oversight Committee about Jeffrey Epstein. Predictably,...
The United States Department of Justice is getting lapped by both Congress and the British authorities on follow-up investigations around the Epstein...
President Donald Trump’s sweeping, global “Liberation Day” tariffs are dead. The outcome wasn’t tough to foresee — Trump had already lost...
What do Elvis Presley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Donald Trump, Jill Biden, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Marilyn Monroe have in common? This reads like...