Here’s What Alarms Legal Experts Most About Trump’s Upcoming Cases

It’s clear what Smith’s aim is with his purchase of Maryland’s largest daily newspaper. His TV empire’s local Baltimore station has been keen on a series of coverage blaming the city’s Black, Democratic mayor, Brandon Scott, for a flurry of Continue reading Here’s What Alarms Legal Experts Most About Trump’s Upcoming Cases

Why the Media Narrative on Donald Trump’s Legal Woes Is Wrong

Why? Let us count the ways. First, speakers traditionally work their way up, slowly building relationships, doing favors, raising money. Jordan has surely done some of that, but it’s not his real calling card. His real calling card is that Continue reading Why the Media Narrative on Donald Trump’s Legal Woes Is Wrong

Rupert Murdoch Has Some New Legal Entanglements, Thanks to Fox News

As The New Republic’s editor, Michael Tomasky, pointed out, the word “vermin” has a fairly noteworthy place in the history of political rhetoric. “To announce that the real enemy is domestic and then to speak of that enemy in subhuman Continue reading Rupert Murdoch Has Some New Legal Entanglements, Thanks to Fox News

Trump’s Desperate Legal Team Files for Mistrial in Fraud Case

Donald Trump’s New York business fraud case is going so badly for him that the former president is now throwing any strategy at the wall to see what sticks. Trump’s lawyers requested a mistrial on Wednesday, accusing presiding Judge Arthur Continue reading Trump’s Desperate Legal Team Files for Mistrial in Fraud Case

Conservatives’ Favorite Legal Doctrine Crashes Into Reality

Last year, when it struck down New York’s concealed-carry law, the Supreme Court upended how the courts scrutinize gun regulations by creating an unusual new test for them: Their constitutionality must be weighed by whether or not similar laws existed Continue reading Conservatives’ Favorite Legal Doctrine Crashes Into Reality

Trump Is Assembling His Second-Term Legal Wrecking Crew

Trump, like all presidents, has the power to replace the people at the upper echelons of the executive branch—cabinet members, agency heads, their top advisors, and so on. Those personnel are subject to Senate approval just like any other high-level Continue reading Trump Is Assembling His Second-Term Legal Wrecking Crew

To MAGA Legal Elite, the Federalist Society Is a Bunch of Squishes

The hardline conservative Federalist Society attorneys who worked for Donald Trump are apparently no longer extreme enough for the former president. Trump allies have been working overtime to stock Trump’s potential second term with staff even further right on the Continue reading To MAGA Legal Elite, the Federalist Society Is a Bunch of Squishes

Trump’s Genius Legal Team Makes One More Sure-to-Lose Argument

He also flew to Mar-a-Lago to beg Trump to pay him for working as Trump’s personal attorney. That didn’t work, but Trump did agree to host a fundraiser dinner for Giuliani. Entry cost $100,000 a plate, but Giuliani paid Costello Continue reading Trump’s Genius Legal Team Makes One More Sure-to-Lose Argument

A Desperate and Broke Rudy Giuliani Is Quickly Losing His Legal Team

Another one of Rudy Giuliani’s lawyers has withdrawn from representing the former New York mayor in Fulton County, Georgia. Giuliani was charged in Georgia with felony racketeering, alongside Donald Trump and 17 other co-defendants, for his efforts to try to Continue reading A Desperate and Broke Rudy Giuliani Is Quickly Losing His Legal Team