Search Results: a criminal former president

David Brooks and the decay of white boomer politics

By John Stoehr / September 9, 2022 /

The stand-in for a fading political order is bewildered by politics, a sign of the GOP’s half-century dominance may be coming to an end.

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Team Trump keeps admitting to an ongoing crime

By Lindsay Beyerstein / August 30, 2022 /

His boasts that he owns the documents are undercutting his lawyers’ attempts to portray a brazen theft as an accident. 

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Allen Weisselberg can’t plead the Fifth anymore

By Lindsay Beyerstein / August 22, 2022 /

He used to protect Donald Trump that way. But no more.

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Someone like Trump pleading the Fifth is funny, but the right against self-incrimination is no laughing matter

By Mia Brett / August 15, 2022 /

It’s just too perfect considering that Trump said in 2016 that, “if you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” 

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Breonna Taylor and how a civil rights law from 1866 could pave the way to police accountability and federal intervention

By Mia Brett / August 11, 2022 /

Is the Justice Department re-embracing its original mandate?

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Alex Jones’ many-splendored phone

By Lindsay Beyerstein / August 11, 2022 /

Norm Pattis, Connecticut trial lawyer, burned his client.

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Garland would not approve searching Mar-a-Lago if the case against Trump were not airtight

By John Stoehr / August 9, 2022 /

Politics is making the AG exceptionally careful.

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Kansas reminds us that democracy is love

By John Stoehr / August 3, 2022 /

Suddenly, lost faith feels premature, even silly.

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The mob did what Trump wanted

By Lindsay Beyerstein / July 26, 2022 /

The J6 committee deftly illustrated Thursday what was going on inside and outside the White House during that time.

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Why didn’t he see the treason happening in front of him?

By John Stoehr / July 21, 2022 /

Stephen Ayres is normal, ordinary and extremely dangerous.

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