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Joe Biden is not the first president to pardon a family member

How the Constitution morphed the last time Trump had power

Gratitude changes everything

How Trump could try to seize control of Washington, D.C.

Where is President Biden and the Democratic Party?

Merrick Garland owes us Jack Smith's final report

Can Trump actually morph himself into a menacing king?

What happens next with the criminal cases against the president-elect?

While millions celebrate, others grieve

The Supreme Court just allowed Virginia to purge legal voters from its rolls

Donald Trump should not get a pardon

The countdown to Election Day is on

As a separation-of-powers battle unfolds in Texas, a man's life hangs in the balance

Election officials are installing panic buttons, bulletproof glass, and snipers

Will the Supreme Court gut federal emergency care for pregnant women?

Jack Smith's latest brief in the January 6th case

This election is all about values

A judge in Georgia just issued the abortion ruling that should have come from the Supreme Court

The myths and realties of election integrity

The Historic Indictment of a Sitting New York City Mayor

How does the law tolerate execution of the innocent?

The GOP's new scheme for this election

Reflecting on President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, 50 years later

With all of this pardon talk, can we expect one for Hunter Biden?

A rundown of the latest in the January 6th prosecution of Donald Trump

What you need to know about self-pardons before heading to the polls in 56 days

Jack Smith changed the legal debate around Trump's January 6th indictment

The pardon power is not without limits

It's time for mental competency tests for presidential candidates

The residential real estate business just got a makeover

How the Supreme Court made itself the lead prosecutor in the January 6th election subversion case

How will courts respond if Team Trump tries to steal the 2024 Election?

The presidential pardon power might have outlived its original purpose

Are special counsels on their way to extinction?

President Biden’s proposed plan to reform the Supreme Court

The forgotten assassination attempt of a sitting president

Congress took the first step in amending the horrors of the Trump immunity decision

An insider's view of Donald Trump: The possibility of another term is "terrifying"

Where does American democracy stand today?

The threat of a future criminal presidency has greatly expanded

The dismissal of Trump's classified documents case explained

Congress can address the Supreme Court's abuse of power

My new book, PARDON POWER, lies at the center of the democracy storm

More evidence that the far-right justices have renounced their beloved originalism

On this Fourth of July, we are the closest we've been to a monarchy since 1776

The right-wing Court just made another massive power grab

Is the Supreme Court leaving strict originalism behind?

The Supreme Court's ongoing assault on American elections

What to know about the Supreme Court's dismissal of the mifepristone case

The Supreme Court Could Use the Pardon Power to Create an Imperial Presidency

Texas Governor pardons Daniel Perry for murdering a BLM protester

Trump is no victim

The rule of law applies to everyone, including Donald J. Trump.

The jury in Trump's criminal fraud case has begun deliberation. What can we expect?

The latest in the former president's criminal cases

What we learned from the 2020 election and why it matters now

Democracy is on the ballot this November. Are you voting to keep your rights?

Trump facing conviction in the Manhattan hush money case

Germans are fighting for their democracy, but Americans aren't

Hope Hicks's testimony in the hush money case against Trump, explained

What Biden's new student debt relief plan is all about

Supreme Court abortion case poses threat to the Supremacy Clause

The Supreme Court seems poised to manufacture some form of criminal immunity for presidents

Does the Eighth Amendment protect homeless people from fines and criminal arrest if they have nowhere to go?

Criminal defendant Donald Trump goes to trial

Will the Supreme Court line up behind hundreds of convicted January 6th insurrectionists and against DOJ?

How did the Arizona Supreme Court justify an 1864 abortion ban?

The dueling SCOTUS presidential immunity briefs, explained

Can former presidents be criminally liable for "threats" to sitting presidents?

Trump's claim that the 1st Amendment protects his lies is wrong

Alabama's anti-IVF ruling laid bare the hypocrisy of the Supreme Court's stance on abortion

Why did a New York appeals court give Trump such a huge break in the civil fraud case?

The "weakest" criminal case against Trump may now be the most important

Two Michigan parents were convicted of manslaughter for failing to keep a gun locked away from their troubled teen

Fani Willis stays, Nathan Wade goes, and the Georgia case moves forward

Alabama's IVF decision laid bare the political hypocrisy of claiming that "life begins at conception"

Did Trump give "aid or comfort" to the insurrectionists under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment?

A key witness in House Republicans' bogus impeachment "inquiry" is indicted for lying to the FBI

The Supreme Court seems poised to blot out the Constitution's Disqualification Clause

With ten months to go before the election, "We the People" can't get tired . . .

My quick trip to Rome: a reminder