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Jeffrey ToobinThe New Yorker |
The core of Mr. Trump’s dissatisfaction with the attorney general was apparently her failure to serve his need for revenge against his enemies.
“Who won the 2020 election?” is the question that Trump’s nominees to the federal bench each refuse to answer in the same exact way.
Giving in to bullies has its own costs, not least because bullies are never satisfied with just a single capitulation.
Outside of law school classrooms, the liberal constitutional agenda is failing. Enter the American Constitution Society.
There is no simple procedural mechanism for lawyers, or the public, to challenge the fitness of judges.
Mounting questions will go unanswered because of a Supreme Court decision shielding presidents from scrutiny.
The legal precedent established by Maurene Comey’s case may turn out to be far more consequential than the finding in her father’s.
What happens when a President’s physical or mental decline makes him unfit to continue to serve?
More than any other presidential actions, clemencies tell us who presidents are.
For Mr. Trump, there may be few spoils of victory sweeter than the ordeal that they will soon endure.
President Trump’s history of intemperate remarks has earned him a perverse kind of immunity; the more outrageous his statement, the faster it is...
Trump wants his people calling the shots. And Bove has proved, above all, that he belongs to the president.
The process is the penalty, and the penalty is the process.
The federal judiciary is being forced to confront a fundamental question: What to do when its orders are defied?
Only the norms of history and the customs of decency constrain a president — or, as in this case, they don’t.
If the president’s defiance continues, the standoff will create the prospect of a constitutional crisis, and it will be the state attorneys general...
Because presidents exercise such unfettered discretion in granting clemency, these actions provide useful insights into their true character.
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