The New York Times Again Worries That Free Speech Endangers Democracy
The newspaper portrays the constitutional challenge to the government's social media meddling as a conspiracy by Donald Trump's supporters.
The newspaper portrays the constitutional challenge to the government's social media meddling as a conspiracy by Donald Trump's supporters.
The reversal of a landmark reform was driven by unrealistic expectations and unproven assertions.
Three justices who concurred in that judgment accuse the majority of trying to "insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges" by going further than necessary.
There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents an inmate from winning the presidency.
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The Supreme Court snubbed Sidney Powell and a court orders Mike Lindell to pay up.
True the Vote told a Georgia court that it can't produce any evidence to support claims of widespread ballot fraud in Georgia.
Most of the justices are clearly inclined to reject a Colorado Supreme Court decision asserting that power under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
The appeals court says it "cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter."
A critique of John Yoo and Robert Delahunty's suggestion that the Vice President has a role in counting electoral votes.
He is asking the justices to reject the Colorado Supreme Court's conclusion that he is disqualified from running for president.
On Douthat's reasoning, published in the NY Times, Confederate secession wasn't an insurrection either.
As one appeals court judge pointed out, Trump's defense could literally let a president get away with murder.
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"Insurrection" and "rebellion" should not be conflated. But the events of January 6 readily meet the criteria for both.
The year's highlights in blame shifting.
Ballots should be counted quickly and accurately.
His lawyers say no jury can ever consider charges based on his "official acts" as president, which include his efforts to reverse Joe Biden's election.
The Colorado Supreme Court's reasoning in deciding that Trump is constitutionally disqualified from running for president seems iffy.
The former Trump lawyer could have avoided a massive defamation verdict by presenting his "definitively clear" evidence of election fraud.
Ballots should be counted quickly and accurately.
The former Trump campaign lawyer re-upped his false claims about two Georgia election workers in the middle of a trial aimed at determining the damages he owes them.
The article makes the case for disqualification on moral and pragmatic grounds, as well as legal ones.
A D.C. Circuit judge says the government’s defense of the order gives short shrift to "the First Amendment’s vigorous protection of political speech."
The court ruled against Trump on his strongest arguments, but accepted a weak one.
The former White House chief of staff is one of several former Trump advisers who are cooperating with prosecutors.
Johnson is a relative newcomer to Congress who has never even chaired a committee, and he is a close ally of former President Donald Trump.
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The election conspiracy theorist struck a deal that allows her to avoid prison by testifying for the prosecution.
District Attorney Fani Willis’ preferred weapon wasn’t designed to be used this way.
If false beliefs about legality exempt people from Section 3 disqualification, leading Confederates would have been exempt as well.
The debate aired on the Mehdi Hasan show.
The opposing view is contrary to the original meaning, and leads to absurd conclusions.
The two alleged racketeers complain that irrelevant evidence concerning distinct, uncoordinated conduct aimed at keeping Donald Trump in office will impair their defense.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith reportedly is keenly interested in whether the former New York mayor gave Trump legal advice while intoxicated.
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Mug shots are not taken to humiliate a defendant before they've been convicted. But that's the purpose they widely serve now.
It's no mystery why the former president preferred a forum in which his record and positions would face no serious challenge.
Trump and his acolytes' conduct was indefensible, but the state's RICO law is overly broad and makes it too easy for prosecutors to bring charges.
Trump's Georgia indictment has much in common with the most recent federal case against him. But also breaks some new ground.
The defendants will claim their alleged "racketeering activity" was a sincere effort to rectify election fraud.
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I was one of the critics he responded to, and in this post I offer a rejoinder.
End the government’s plea-bargaining racket with open and adversarial jury trials.