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Trump's $10 billion TikTok 'brokerage fee' is just the tip of the iceberg

What the Anthropic blow-up says about constitutional rights in an era of AI

Yes the Supreme Court Saved Us From Higher Prices, But There's No Guarantee It Will Save Our Democracy

Why Biden didn't release the Epstein files — but maybe should have

Will Trump Succeed in Jailing Don Lemon? A Legal Explainer

A judge stands up to Trump

Trump Wants to Sue Trevor Noah for Defamation. Here's His Problem

How Trump and SCOTUS Have Frustrated Federal Courts

So Much for Free Speech. A Year of Trump’s Attacks on the First Amendment

We need a new constitution

What to Do If ICE Shows Up: Know Your Rights

What to Expect from the Supreme Court in 2026

AI turns out to be the issue that could break Trump’s movement

Don’t Expect Trump to Give Up on Deploying Troops Into American Cities

Trump’s Presidential Pardon Power Is Out of Control

Trump keeps pushing to expand and abuse his pardon powers

Supreme Court Poised to Vastly Expand Presidential Power, Again

Will Trump's drug war finally awaken Republicans to his lawlessness?

An Ignominious End to a Lawless Prosecution

Congress Can Toughen Existing Laws to Expose Trump’s Pardon-for-Sale Racket

Bondi and Halligan’s Spectacularly Bad Lawyering for Trump

Trump is trying to expand his pardon power to cover state offenses

5 Extremely Outrageous Things Trump Is Doing to Destroy the US Constitution

Will the justices give military contractors a free pass?

What is Trump's ICE doing with its new $75 billion? Where are the missing detainees?

Trump can’t just go firing anyone he wants, but that doesn’t mean he won’t try

Courts Keep Smacking Down Trump’s Lawless Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship

Trump Just Issued Two of His Most Dangerous Directives Yet

Censorship by compliance destroys free speech

Opinion | 5 Reasons Same-Sex Marriage Might Not Be as Safe as You Think

Don’t ket Charlie Kirk’s become a prerext for free speech crackdown

UBalt Professor Simplifies Constitutional Law, Politics for Masses | Charles Street Chats

The Supreme Court Is Committing Judicial Malpractice

Judge Spells Out the Danger of Trump’s Lawlessness

Trump has brought socialism to America

No, Trump Can’t Just Impose the Death Penalty for All Murders in D.C.

The Rule of Law in the US Just Took Its Last Breath

Democrats need to start using AI to help save democracy

After only 6 months, Project 2025 is halfway complete

How Can We Stop Trump From Destroying Democracy?

The Threat to Free Speech in Trump’s Unprecedented Wall Street Journal Suit

Trump Has Revealed a Gaping Hole in the Constitution

If Trump Tried to Fire the Fed Chair, What Would the Supreme Court Do?

King Donald? Supreme Court grants Trump power to repeal laws at his whim

The Supreme Court rewards Trump’s outrageous anti-immigrant actions

'Everyone Is at Risk': Trump and His Cronies Obliterate the Rule of Law

What ICE agents are doing is outrageous — and legal

Is Trump Breaking the Law in LA?

DOGE’s Supreme Court victory is a huge loss for Americans’ privacy

Trump’s New Pardon Spree

The Supreme Court Just Got Closer to Crowning Trump King

Congress and the Supreme Court are trying to undermine lower court judges

'Toxic Optimism': How Americans Ended Up With Trump Term 2

Trump’s executive orders are a direct attack on free speech

This might be Trump’s most absurd executive order yet

Trump Is Serious About Sending US Citizens to an El Salvador Prison. That Should Worry Us All

In the Abrego Garcia case, the Supreme Court is letting Trump get away with it

Gratuitous Cruelty: The Supreme Court Just Unleashed Trump

Trump makes history by pardoning a corporation

Trump’s claims to have revoked pardons is bunk

DOGE is operating within a bubble of lawlessness

Musk and Trump are blatantly violating the Constitution

A Warning to Trump Targets: The Law Isn’t on Your Side

A lesson in constitutional law for JD Vance

JD Vance Wants a Constitutional Crisis

Trump/Musk Administration Faces First Pushback from the Courts

4 ways Trump and Musk are shattering the basic rules

Trump vs. the Inspectors General

Trump’s Power Grab

Biden’s last minute family pardons are indefensible

2 blockbuster cases about the 1st Amendment and online speech

Pam Bondi Puts Loyalty to Trump First

The End of the Trump Prosecutions

Trump’s utterly bizarre message in the TikTok case

Trump’s Favorite Judge Scrambles to Block Jack Smith’s Final Report

DOGE is unconstitutional

Trump is waging a legal war on press freedom

The Cost of Pardoning the Jan. 6th Defendants

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

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Biden’s Pardon of His Son May Be Unseemly — But It’s Not Out of Bounds

In Defense of the Hunter Biden Pardon

How Trump has changed and will change the Constitution

The Teflon Endures: Jack Smith Ends Trump Prosecutions

Speak for America, Democrats

Merrick Garland Must Release Jack Smith’s Final Report

The forces standing in the way of Trump getting whatever he wants

Jack Smith’s Hard Choices

It’s Been Four Years. How Ready Are We for ‘Stop the Steal 2.0‘?

Supreme Court Lets Virginia Proceed with Flawed Purge of Voter Rolls

A presidential pardon for Trump is a very bad idea

Here’s What’s in the Republican Election-Interference Game Plan

We Need to Talk About Right-Wing Violence on Election Day

‘We’re Going to Hang You’: Threats to Election Workers on the Rise

Supreme Court seems skeptical on emergency abortions

How Jack Smith’s New Case Against Trump Works

Voters should read this Georgia judge’s abortion ruling

Was an innocent man just executed in Missouri?

The GOP Scheme That Could Bring Our Electoral System to Its Knees

ORDER PARDON POWER

After Words with Kim Wehle

Is Hunter Biden deserving of a presidential pardon?

Trump Jan. 6th Trial Slowly Chugs Back to Life

Jack Smith Ain’t Cannon Fodder

How Jack Smith's Re-Indictment of Trump Addresses SCOTUS Immunity Ruling

Trump abused the pardon power and promises to do so again

Want to Be President? Take a Cognitive Test.

Kramers on 9/11 Event with Amanda Carpenter Kim Wehle: Pardon Power

Buckle Up: Here’s How Republican Attempts to Steal the 2024 Election Could Play Out in the Courts

Has the Supreme Court made the January 6 case against Trump impossible

Lessons from a forgotten presidential assassination

Biden’s Last Project: Fix a Supreme Court in Desperate Need of Reform

Proposed Amendment Would Plug the Hole Caused by ‘Trump v. U.S.’

A frightening thought experiment: a murderous president with criminal immunity

Rogue Judge Cannon Hands Trump a Huge Gift, Tosses Classified Docs Case

Trump immunity decisions shows that conservative ‘originalism’ is a farce

How SCOTUS Just Blew Up Jack Smith’s Prosecution

Agencies, Schmagencies: The Future of Federal Regulation After SCOTUS Tossed Out ‘Chevron’

Supreme Court gives American women some half-hearted ‘wins’

Turning Away from Originalism

Opinion | Why Is the Supreme Court Ignoring its Own Rules?

Another blow to American democracy from the Supreme Court

SCOTUS Keeps Marching Right

Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump was novel — and correct

Trump Got Due Process and Then Some

Opinion | The Supreme Court Could Make the President a King

Lies and Laws: Trump Criminal Fraud Case Going to the Jury at Last

Judge Outlines ‘Shell Game’ Played with Classified Docs at Mar-a-Lago

The pardon of Daniel Perry in Texas Charts a New Alarming Course

Trump’s defense team has only one strategy left

Justice Delayed? Trump Georgia and Florida Trials Unlikely Before 2025

Germans Have Taken to the Streets to Protect Their Democracy

Why Hope Hicks’s Testimony Matters

The massive constitutional implications of the Idaho abortion case

Supreme Court Poised to Transform the Presidency, Empower Trump if Re-Elected

Here’s How Trump Will Try to Defend Himself in the Hush-Money Case

A Courtroom Recital of His Misdeeds ‘Rattled’ Trump

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Jan. 6th Prosecutions, Including Trump’s, May Be at Risk

The Crumbleys Are Being Scapegoated for America’s Gun Failures

Jack Smith to Supreme Court: Don’t Become a Tool of Trumpian Delay

Did Trump Really Threaten Biden?

Trump’s legal claims about ‘political speech’ are full of hot air

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Appeals Court Gives Trump the Gift of Smaller Bond, More Time

Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump: Four Things to Know

The Crumbley family verdicts flow from America’s failed gun laws

Fani Willis Admonished, But Trump Prosecution Continues

Will presidents be kings? The Supreme Court seems to be leaning that way.

In Mess of an Opinion, SCOTUS Rules Trump Must Stay on Colorado Ballot

Justice Delayed: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Trump’s Immunity Case

Fani Willis Should Have Known Better

Fraudster Trump Fined $354 Million and Barred from Business in New York

Trump, Indicted for Mishandling Classified Documents, Asks Judge for More Classified Documents

Trump Says He Shouldn’t Be Tried with an Election Pending

SCOTUS Likely to Rule States Can’t Bar Trump from Ballot Under 14th Amendment

Appeals Court Decisively Smacks Down Trump’s Immunity Claim for Jan. 6th

How the Fani Willis Scandal Is Likely to Play Out

The Little Law School with Kim Wehle - Can Trump Be Kicked Off the Ballot?

Where the Trump Disqualification Push Stands

Supreme Court Down to the Wire

Could This Trump Argument Persuade SCOTUS?

Supreme Court Considers Case That Could Fundamentally Remake Federal Regulation

The ‘Sleeping Giant’ Case that Could Upend Jack Smith’s Prosecution of Trump

Trump on the Take? Foreign Govts Paid His Businesses Millions When He Was in Office

The Return of Trump’s Big Lie

The Huge Legal Questions Ahead in 2024

The Colorado Supreme Court Decision Is True Originalism

Trump Should Be Off the Ballot in Colorado, State Supreme Court Rules

What to Expect from the Supreme Court on the Trump Immunity Case

Giuliani Defamation Trial Keeps Getting Worse for Him (and Trump)

Hunter Biden’s New, More Serious Indictment

Courts Swat Down Trump’s Executive Immunity Defense

A New Threat to the Voting Rights Act

Four Things to Know About the Trump ‘Gag Order’ Clash

Colorado Judge: Trump Can’t Be Barred from Ballot Over Jan. 6th

Opinion | I Read Mike Johnson’s Legal Filings. They Reveal a Distinctive Pattern.

Supreme Court Releases Code of Conduct, Insists Everything’s Copacetic

Five Things to Know About the Trump Fraud Trial as the Defense Kicks Off

Trump Can’t Hide His Utter Disdain for the Rule of Law

Trump Courtroom Conundrum: Is It Better to Be Seen as a Liar or a Loser?

The Lawsuit in Colorado That Could Block Trump from the Ballot

Trumpism and the fate of the rule of law under the US Constitution by Kimberly Wehle

Trouble for Trump: Mark Meadows Talks

States Launch Massive Lawsuit Against Facebook and Instagram

What Sidney Powell’s Guilty Plea Means for the Case Against Trump

Jack Smith’s Real Focus in the Mar-a-Lago Case

The Three Major Cases Before the Supreme Court You Should Know About

He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court

A Civil Case May Have Just Cost Trump His Business

The Coming Attack on an Essential Element of Women’s Freedom

Kevin McCarthy’s Sham Impeachment

Is One of the Charges Against Hunter Biden Unconstitutional?

Alabama’s Republicans: Lawless Lawmakers

A clause in the Constitution may disqualify Trump from returning to the White House?

Trump Disqualification: How Feasible (or Radical) Is It?

Yes, Federal Courts Have Jurisdiction in the Jan. 6th Case Against Trump

Opinion | Trump Says He Has Immunity. Will the Supreme Court Beg to Differ?

This Indictment Hits Different

Trump’s Obviously Bad Argument About the Discovery Process

Trump Ushered In an Era of Politicized Courts

‘Jack Smith Has Made Sure That the System of Laws Still Holds’

Thrice Indicted: Trump Charged in Conspiracy to Overturn the 2020 Election

Trump’s Legal Turmoil Just Keeps Getting Worse

Revised Indictment in Trump Mar-a-Lago Case: New Crime, New Defendant

Our Last Chances to Hold Trump Accountable

The Right-Wing Lawsuit That’s Forced the Feds to Stop Talking to Social Media Firms

How Far Did SCOTUS Go This Term?

Affirmative Action Ruling: SCOTUS Decision Is Bad News for Equal Opportunity

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Supreme Court Smacks Down Radical ‘Independent State Legislature Theory’

Why the Supreme Court Handed Biden an Immigration Win

Trump’s Legal Strategy: Delay, Delay, Delay

Hunter Biden and the Vindication of the Rule of Law

What You Need to Know About Voting—and Why

How to Read the Constitution —and Why

How to Think Like a Lawyer—and Why

Accountability Is Everything

Harlan Crow’s Weak Argument for Refusing to Cooperate with Senate Investigators

Why the Trump Tape Matters for the Mar-a-Lago Case

Unanimous Supreme Court Keeps Hands Off Tech Platforms and Online Hate

The E. Jean Carroll Verdict: For Once, Trump Couldn’t Escape Justice

Proud Boys Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy

Biden Isn’t the Only Official Who Could Pardon Trump

After Years of Waiting, E. Jean Carroll Testifies on Trump and Trauma

The Abortion Pill, the FDA, and Supreme Court

Yes, Trump Could Get Convicted and Still Become President Again

‘The Elite’s Destruction of Civic Customs Is Complete’

The Case Against Trump: The Charges and the Facts Behind Them

Debate: The Supreme Court

Simple Politics with Guest Dan Hatcher

Jim Jordan’s Bogus Justification for Attacking the Manhattan D.A.

The Trump Investigation You Probably Haven’t Heard About

Here’s Why a Big Pork High Court Lawsuit Matters

The Supreme Court Just Keeps Deciding It Should Be Even More Powerful

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The Judge with the King Complex

Much More Than Student Loans at Stake in Lawsuit

Stuck With Santos

Trump’s Tax Returns Will Finally Be Revealed. It Shouldn’t Have Taken This Long.

The Jan. 6th Committee Report and the Continuing Threat of Political Violence

Signals from the Supreme Court on Its High-Stakes Cases

Jan. 6 panel to vote on criminal referrals against former President Trump

Want Meaningful Gun Regulations? First Rein in the Supreme Court.

Kari Lake’s Trumpian Lawsuit

Court Implodes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Defense (and the Errant Judge Who Bought It)

Trump’s Day in Court (and Court and Court and Court)

Appointing a New Special Counsel Was the Right Call

Trump’s Case Against Responding to Congress’s Subpoena

Opinion | States’ Rights Is About to Come Roaring Back

The Midterms’ Stakes for Democracy: A Scenario

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What’s Left for the January 6th Committee?

Supreme Court to Hear Cases on Content Policing

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Case After Case After Case: The GOP Keeps Suing to Toss Out Midterm Ballots

Letitia James and Trump’s Costly Lies

‘Special Master’ to Trump: “You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It”

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The Supreme Court’s Extreme Power Grab

Kim Wehle Discusses January 6th Hearings with the Washington Journal

4 Ways to Prevent a Future Insurrection

The Best Hope for Fixing America’s Gun Crisis

What We Keep Getting Wrong About Abortion

Second Amendment myths everyone should stop believing

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