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James D. Zirin, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
Trump despises the legal system and the rule of law, except when it serves his interests.
Trump vowed to appeal, but he is unlikely to fare very well.
I don’t think there will be a hung jury here. The evidence against Trump is so overwhelming that my bet is on a unanimous verdict of conviction.
Alito acts like a legislator — a politician in robes.
The concern will be that the jury expects Trump to take the stand — as does the ultimate jury, the American voters who make up the court of...
Cross examination has rightfully been called an art. It is the drama of the law.
No wonder the public perceives the justices not as jurists but as politicians in robes.
There really should be no legal obstacle to his giving the trial a pass and hitting the campaign trail, or luxuriating on the golf course at...
There are difficulties in picking an impartial panel in a city where a celebrity defendant is widely loathed.
Trump said he could murder someone on Fifth Avenue and his base wouldn’t care, just as Simpson murdered two people and his base didn’t care.
Trump’s attacks on the Merchans are two-pronged and are nothing new.
This is not a left/right issue. Threatening judges and their families, and exposing them to violence, crosses a red line in any civilized society.
Judge Scot McAfee’s 23-page opinion reads like a chapter from a paperback novel found at an airport newsstand.
Judges are not supposed to rewrite constitutional provisions they find objectionable on policy grounds, and they are not supposed to invent new...
With the clock running out, and the Supreme Court having no appetite for proceeding on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s timetable, it seems more likely...
It is extraordinary, in my experience, for a court to enjoin the start of a criminal trial. But this is an extraordinary case.
Jason C. Murray was articulate and plainly spoken in his maiden oral argument before the court, but the answers he gave to the justices’ questions...
The justice system is supposed to work for the people. But in Trump’s case, it may not.
Retired conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig has just filed a devastating amicus brief in which he sticks it to the conservatives on the bench by...
Trump is not running for anything; he is running against. He is running against politics. He is running against democracy.
Trump's lawyer argued for a sweeping immunity that would put the president above and beyond the law. It’s a world that no American should want to...
The reactionary Supreme Court is in a quandary as to how to decide the Trump disqualification case while retaining whatever credibility it has left.
There are no good options for the six Republican-appointed justices on the beleaguered Supreme Court.
The decision is not a gift to the unpopular President Biden. It is a gift to Trump’s Republican primary opponents.
Under the Constitution, the defendant is entitled to a speedy trial — and so is the public.
Courts vary as to how they handle “similar act” evidence.
Republicans are right to be concerned about the Santos expulsion. The new standard could be readily applied to Donald Trump.