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What is executive privilege? Why a new Justice Department memo could make presidents harder to investigate

A new Justice Department opinion expands executive privilege claims. This opinion suggests private presidential advisers may resist subpoenas. Critics fear this interpretation hinders congressional investigations and accountability. Past court rulings have limited presidential secrecy in investigations. The debate centers on balancing presidential confidentiality and public oversight.

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Trump’s justice department has found a new way for presidents to avoid accountability

A recent memo claiming executive privilege over communications with private advisers invites corruption

The Guardian - US

President Trump Made History Last Week on the Supreme Court's Shadow Docket

The Supreme Court very strongly hinted that it will overrule, or greatly narrow, Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935).

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Mitch McConnell's legacy in Senate sits in the nation's courts - Roll Call

Mitch McConnell will end his Senate career with his most indelible mark on the federal courts and the judicial confirmation process.

Roll Call

The Meese Revolution: The Making of a Constitutional Moment (2024)

by Steven Gow Calabresi and Gary Lawson.

Reason

The Trump transition has begun — and it’s off to an unorthodox start

Supporters and administration hopefuls have been flocking to Mar-a-Lago in the days since Trump’s win, Andrew Feinberg reports, as the first members of the new White House team are announced

The Independent UK

Vance Downplays Trump's Promises To Use 'Lawfare' Against His Opponents

The vice presidential hopeful displayed his dishonesty on Joe Rogan's podcast last week.

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The Goal Of The "Architects of the Supreme Court" Was Always Overruling Chevron, and not Overruling Roe

McConnell: "Dismantling the administrative state and empowering people who are actually elected to make decisions has been the motivating force" for nearly every "Federalist Society-type lawyer."

Reason

Case brought to Supreme Court by herring fishermen may gut federal rulemaking power

Several of the court's conservative justices expressed deep skepticism of the current framework. But all three left-leaning justices offered support for keeping the system in place.

WEKU

Trump's attorney-client curse haunts his biggest scandals

Trump's treatment of his own lawyers has put him in the most precarious legal jeopardy of his life.

Axios

Justices cheered at conservative group's anniversary dinner

Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion showed up at the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary

The Independent UK

Don nearly fired Ivanka, Jared via tweet

"Trump repeatedly gave instructions 'to essentially fire the pair,'" according to new book

Salon

Trump nearly tweet-fired daughter Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner from White House, book says

Former President Donald Trump nearly fired his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner — via a tweet — according to an upcoming book about the 45th president’s administration.

Tribune News Service

Did Trump pretend to be a reporter?

"Dingell couldn’t shake the idea that his voice sounded like that of the forty-fifth president," Haberman writes

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The Guardian - US

Servants of the Damned review: Trump and the giant law firm he actually paid

David Enrich delivers a withering study of how big law got into bed with the 45th president – Jones Day in particular

WEKU

How lawyers from one giant DC firm influenced Trump's Supreme Court picks

Servants of the Damned author David Enrich says lawyers from the firm of Jones Day were deeply embedded in the Trump White House — and helped create policy designed to limit the federal government.

The Independent UK

Top lawyers hired by those linked to Georgia election probe

As more details emerge about the Georgia investigation into possible illegal attempts to influence the 2020 election, high-profile lawyers are getting involved

Tribune News Service

Fulton County DA seeks to question Lindsey Graham about any coordination with Trump

ATLANTA — Prosecutors with the Fulton County District Attorney’s office, who are leading the special purpose grand jury investigation into Georgia’s 2020 election, are interested in questioning U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham about any coordinated effort there may have been between the South Carolina Republican and officials from the Trump campaign.

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Lindsey Graham hires ex-Trump attorney in Georgia election probe

WASHINGTON — Senator Lindsey Graham said he has retained former White House counsel Don McGahn to fight off a subpoena in a Georgia probe of former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.

The Independent UK

Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?

Ms Jackson is the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

The Independent UK

Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?

Ms Jackson would be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

The Independent UK

Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?

Ms Jackson would be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

The Independent UK

Notable opinions by high court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, has been a federal appeals court judge for less than a year

The Independent UK

Notable opinions by high court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will be nominated for the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden, has been a federal appeals court judge less than a year

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