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In posing a hypothetical that a president could not be indicted for committing murder, Giuliani appears not to have considered the serious questions that raises about his positions on the president’s imm...
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President Trump announced that he believes he has the “absolute right” to pardon himself, according to the Washington Post. The president tweeted Monday morning:
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The document is most interesting not as a legal work but for what it says about the president’s lawyers’ understanding of the special counsel’s investigation of obstruction.
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When reading about Snowden, keep in mind the dedicated NSA employees who strive to uphold the rule of law and protect their country.
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Trump’s exercise of the pardon power is another example of how he is degrading settled norms of behavior and governance.
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National security adviser John Bolton is often caricatured as a unilateralist. One of his legacies during the George W. Bush administration, however, was a significant new multilateral effort: the Prolif...
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The kind of presidency that Hamilton and others feared has arrived.
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Apart from its primary claim of unreviewable power over criminal investigations, the January 2018 letter from the president's lawyers to Special Counsel Robert Mueller makes a number of remarkable, and s...
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History can be a good friend of confirmation bias. We often look to the past for lessons that support beliefs that we already have instead of the ones best supported by a deep analysis of the evidence.
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The New York Times has obtained letters sent to the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller by the president's legal team, one in January 2018 and one in June 2017. The correspondence makes an aggressiv...
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Matthew Kahn posted the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel’s May 31 memorandum opinion on the U.S.’s April 2018 airstrikes on Syrian chemical-weapons facilites. Jack Goldsmith contended that the ...