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    The Situation: Extortion as Governance

    Benjamin Wittes
    Jan 13, 2026
    How criminal investigation becomes an instrument of monetary policy.
  • The Situation: We Agree

    Katherine Pompilio Benjamin Wittes
    Jan 11, 2026
    Finding points of common ground on Jan. 6 with the White House
  • The Situation: One Judicial Opinion That Sums Up Everything

    Olivia Manes Benjamin Wittes
    Jan 6, 2026
    Judge Paula Xinis’s opinion last month in the Abrego Garcia case is worth a deeper read.
  • The Situation: What Were House Republicans Thinking?

    Benjamin Wittes
    Jan 2, 2026
    Jim Jordan v. Jack Smith
  • The Situation: Comments on the Meta-Situation

    Benjamin Wittes
    Dec 30, 2025
    One year of The Situation.
  • The Situation: A Legal Puzzle to Ponder

    Benjamin Wittes
    Dec 19, 2025
    What if I wanted to project an unflattering image of Kash Patel on the FBI building?
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    The Situation: Why Can’t Kash Patel Shut Up?

    Olivia Manes Benjamin Wittes
    Dec 16, 2025
    On the FBI director’s penchant for commenting on pending matters.
  • The Situation: Who is the “Responsible United States Attorney” in Virginia?

    Benjamin Wittes
    Dec 14, 2025
    Such an official must exist, because the Justice Manual says her approval is required to keep indicting Letitia James.
  • The Situation: Another Day, Another No True Bill

    Benjamin Wittes
    Dec 12, 2025
    As Bob Dylan once sang, “How many grand juries must reject an indictment before we call it a no true bill?”
  • The Situation: Why Did the White House Write This National Security Strategy?

    Benjamin Wittes
    Dec 8, 2025
    A very strange document.
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    The Situation: My First Waymo

    Benjamin Wittes
    Dec 5, 2025
    I took a ride to Palo Alto in a Jaguar with a robot driver.
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    The Situation: Things You Might Have Missed Over Thanksgiving

    Benjamin Wittes
    Dec 1, 2025
    The Situation continued while you were eating turkey.
  • The Situation: You Get To Play Lindsey Halligan’s Hand

    Katherine Pompilio Benjamin Wittes
    Nov 26, 2025
    She made her bed. Now you get to lie in it.
  • The Situation: Not The Way I Wanted This to End

    Benjamin Wittes
    Nov 25, 2025
    But I’ll take it.
  • The Situation: On Shame

    Benjamin Wittes
    Nov 23, 2025
    What is the morally serious person supposed to feel?
  • The Situation: The Inanities Continue in the Comey Case

    Benjamin Wittes
    Nov 21, 2025
    It’s getting hard to keep up.
  • The Situation: Malevolence, Incompetence, and the Strange Case of Lindsey Halligan

    Benjamin Wittes
    Nov 18, 2025
    A study in 24 pages.
  • The Situation: The President’s Approval Rating Takes a Hit

    Benjamin Wittes
    Nov 13, 2025
    How the president’s poll numbers actually affect presidential power.
  • The Situation: Assessing the Shutdown

    Benjamin Wittes
    Nov 10, 2025
    Not a good outcome—except perhaps politically.
  • The Situation: I’ll Wait and See on the Tariffs Case

    Benjamin Wittes
    Nov 7, 2025
    The Supreme Court is dead to me whatever it does.
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