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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

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Biden’s last-minute family pardons are indefensible

Biden’s preemptive pardon to cover up for potential misconduct involving himself is a totally different ballgame, and puts him within the company of...

22.01.2025 20

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

2 blockbuster cases about the First Amendment and online speech

In a pair of cases heard this month, the Supreme Court has faced collisions between the First Amendment’s right to speech and the unprecedented...

21.01.2025 7

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

DOGE is unconstitutional

Bizarrely, most people seem to be pretending that this is normal.

07.01.2025 4

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Trump is waging a legal war against press freedom

Lawsuits can be time-consuming and expensive for defendants, even if there is no merit to them. Trump understands this.

24.12.2024 30

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Say goodbye to federal protections and hello to Trump’s advancing loyalist army 

Among Donald Trump’s many disconcerting campaign promises is a pledge to fire tens of thousands of federal employees and replace them with...

12.12.2024 3

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

How Trump has changed and will change the Constitution

Without Trump, there would be no such thing as criminal immunity for presidents.

27.11.2024 3

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Here's what's standing in the way of Trump getting whatever he wants

It’s unlikely that Trump can turn the country into a dictatorship with a few strokes of a pen. The courts are working in America, the sprawling...

13.11.2024 2

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

A presidential pardon for Trump is a very bad idea

Even if Harris were to pardon Trump, it’s hard to imagine it accomplishing the national healing that such “amnesty” pardons are designed to...

30.10.2024 5

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Supreme Court seems skeptical on emergency abortions

Last week, the court left in place a lower federal court ruling in Texas that bans the Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing a...

16.10.2024 3

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Voters should read this Georgia judge’s abortion ruling

Judge McBurney acknowledged Georgia’s competing interest in fetal life, but rejected the state’s claim that anyone who engages in or...

02.10.2024 30

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Was an innocent man just executed in Missouri?

Prosecutors and the victim’s family urged that he be spared based on DNA evidence showing that Williams was in fact innocent.

25.09.2024 10

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Is Hunter Biden deserving of a presidential pardon?

Biden’s sudden about-face in a Los Angeles federal courtroom last week — pleading guilty to nine tax-related criminal charges shortly before trial...

11.09.2024 6

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Trump abused the pardon power and promises to do so again

Trump has put the presidential pardon power on the ballot this year in at least three different ways, underscoring a dire need for congressional...

28.08.2024 20

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Has the Supreme Court made the Jan. 6 case against Trump impossible?

Picking through the high court’s disastrously ambiguous immunity ruling to divine a strategy for salvaging the prosecution is a daunting project.

14.08.2024 3

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

Lessons from a forgotten presidential assassination attempt

While the Secret Service reels over the security lapses that contributed to the assassination attempt at a Trump rally on July 13, most Americans...

02.08.2024 2

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor

A frightening thought experiment: A murderous president with criminal immunity

Like much of the Constitution, the language establishing the pardon power is vague.

17.07.2024 3

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Kimberly Wehle, Opinion Contributor