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Pardon me: What were the folks at DOGE thinking?

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Battleground DOJ: How Trump is waging war on the so-called deep state

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Trump’s Friday night massacre is blatantly illegal

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Biden’s pardons were disappointing. Trump’s are worse.

22.01.2025 50

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Big Tech’s power surge

21.01.2025 20

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Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi: Qualified but questionable

17.01.2025 80

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At the Hegseth hearing, GOP senators covered themselves in shame

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The Supreme Court’s ‘no’ to Trump was dangerously close to ‘yes’

11.01.2025 40

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Hush-money judge on Trump: ‘Premeditated and continuous deception’

In the matter of Donald J. Trump, the criminal justice system failed egregiously to hold the once and future president accountable. It’s almost...

06.01.2025 100

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Will GOP senators resist Trump on Cabinet picks?

13.12.2024 10

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If Chris Wray is stepping down, can anyone stand up to Donald Trump?

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray shouldn’t have made it so easy for Donald Trump. When he becomes president in 40 days, Trump will have the...

12.12.2024 30

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Yes, it’s tempting, but Biden should refrain from preemptive pardons

Desperate times call for desperate measures. But not so desperate as having President Joe Biden issue preemptive pardons to government officials...

11.12.2024 10

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Four ways Trump will undermine the authority of Congress

While a worried nation tries to make sense of Donald Trump’s spate of unqualified, extreme nominees, the president-elect is setting the stage for...

23.11.2024 100

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Gaetz is out. But hold the celebration.

“There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle,” wrote Matt Gaetz, the former congressman and, as of 12:24 p.m.,...

22.11.2024 20

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The House speaker’s pathetic case for deep-sixing the Gaetz ethics report

House Speaker Mike Johnson, fresh from seeing the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago, has changed his hands-off views about the House Ethics...

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Welcome to the Donald Trump Amateur Hour. Can democracy survive it?

It took Donald Trump scarcely a week to demonstrate his utter contempt for the government he is about to lead, culminating in his choice of Matt...

15.11.2024 100

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Trump’s recess appointments gambit? A power grab hiding in plain sight.

Even before he takes office, President-elect Donald Trump is setting the stage for an unprecedented presidential power grab. In a social media post...

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As Jack Smith winds up his cases, Team Trump cranks up the retribution

And so, it begins. Elon Musk, the X owner and shadow president-elect, posted about the special counsel who prosecuted Donald Trump, “Jack...

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Impromptu after the election: ‘It’s still sinking in’

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Into the nervy climax of the 2024 elections

No matter what happens in the next 24 hours, it will have been a historic presidential race. On the latest episode of “Impromptu,” Ruth Marcus,...

05.11.2024 3

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States try anew to curb abortion meds, claiming they’re protecting women

Donald Trump has threatened to “protect” women, “whether the women like it or not.” If this bullying paternalism doesn’t sit well with you,...

04.11.2024 2

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The sad demise of Grizzly 399 — and the success story behind her life

JACKSON, Wyo. — “There has never been a bear in history that has beaten the odds like 399,” her quasi-official photographer, Thomas D....

01.11.2024 20

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A bad omen ahead of Tuesday: Justices meddle in Va. voter purge case

The Supreme Court, over the dissent of its three liberal justices, issued an unsigned order on Wednesday allowing Virginia to purge about 1,600...

31.10.2024 100

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At Madison Square Garden on Sunday: A diseased idea of America

“I don’t think anybody has ever seen anything like what happened the other night at Madison Square Garden,” Donald Trump said of his racist,...

30.10.2024 100

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For The Post, the wrong choice at the worst possible time

I love The Washington Post, deep in my bones. Last month marked my 40th year of proud work for the institution, in the newsroom and in the Opinions...

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Anxious about the election? Here’s how I’m coping.

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The one thing JD Vance has been right about so far

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Jack Smith just wants to prosecute his case against Donald Trump

“COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE,” Donald Trump complained of special counsel Jack Smith’s lengthy filing in the 2020 election...

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Tony Dokoupil’s tough questions on Israel were good journalism

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The thin joy of the new year, the horror of the one just concluded

The traditional wish for Rosh Hashanah, the new year that Jews celebrated last week, is for a sweet new year. The traditional wish for Yom Kippur,...

09.10.2024 30

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JD Vance is a dangerous, disciplined shape-shifter

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Women are not ‘community property,’ a Georgia judge rules

02.10.2024 400

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‘A true friend of Turkey’: Four writers on the Eric Adams indictment

28.09.2024 20

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Abortion ruling leads to an all-too-preventable death in Georgia

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Time is running out to put Biden-named judges on the federal bench

19.09.2024 40

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Sarah Sanders’s crude swipes at Kamala Harris notch a new low for GOP

Enough. “My kids keep me humble,” Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders preened, thereby disproving her own claim. “Unfortunately, Kamala...

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Laura Loomer is the symptom. The real problem is Donald Trump.

It’s impossible, unproductive and, frankly, tedious to respond to every Trump outrage. So I try to pick my shots and spare readers what would...

16.09.2024 100

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How 10 minutes on abortion changed the race between Trump and Harris

11.09.2024 2

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One urgent reason the justices need a credible ethics code? Ginni Thomas.

​ Just when you think Virginia “Ginni” Thomas can’t do any more to cast disrepute on the institution where her husband has served as a justice...

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Kamala Harris should release the names of her ‘bundlers’

Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign raised $540 million in just over a month. Good for her. Now Harris should do the right thing...

30.08.2024 1

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A new indictment points to Trump’s illegal acts — and justices’ errors

To understand the dumb and unnecessary choices the Supreme Court put before special counsel Jack Smith in charging Donald Trump with election...

29.08.2024 100

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What ‘leave it to the states’ really means for abortion

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Justice Gorsuch’s book of fish tales

A new book by the Supreme Court conservative raises the question: Does having all the facts matter? Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch promotes...

23.08.2024 90

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Trump’s no Nixon. He doesn’t deserve a pardon.

When it comes to Trump, accountability is a can endlessly kicked down the road. President Richard M. Nixon speaks near Orlando on Nov. 17, 1973....

15.08.2024 80

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Schumer’s presidential immunity fix will only make things worse

Jurisdiction-stripping is a terrible way to deal with even the worst excesses of this Supreme Court. Former president Donald Trump in Washington in...

13.08.2024 10

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How a good idea — term limits for justices — was drowned in bad politics

Term limits for Supreme Court justices is overdue. Partisan politics keeps it from happening. Members of the Supreme Court in October 2022. (Jabin...

04.08.2024 40

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‘I do think she can win!’ Impromptu thoughts on Harris doubters.

Opinion ‘I do think she can win!’ Impromptu thoughts on Harris doubters. Were Democrats too hasty about falling in line? 3 min Sorry, a summary is...

25.07.2024 3

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Biden made a heroic choice. Where do Democrats go from here?

Now that he stepped out of the race, there is at least a chance of winning — but just a chance. President Biden at the White House on May 20. (...

22.07.2024 40

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Judge Cannon brushes aside decades of special counsel rulings

Never mind that special prosecutors have been appointed under several presidents from both parties. Special counsel Jack Smith and U.S. District...

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