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Trump’s Luck And Mojo Run Low

Columnists Jamie Stiehm - April 17, 2024 0

At last, former President Donald Trump is on trial, a criminal defendant for election interference, in silencing a sordid brush with Stormy Daniels. The judge, Juan Merchan, made clear he’s in charge here. A harbinger of spring light in the American soul after a long winter occupation? Let it be so. April is turning out as the cruelest month for the Republican presidential contender. The actual president, meanwhile, acts presidential, handling foreign policy crises like […]

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This Time, It’s Arizona

Columnists Susan Estrich - April 16, 2024 0

Just days after Donald Trump tried to defang the abortion issue, it came roaring back in the form of an Arizona law, passed before women could vote, banning all abortions. Far from resolving the issue, the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade has thrust abortion – and the courts – in the thick of what the White House termed the “chaos and confusion” playing out nationally. The Arizona law, passed before Arizona joined […]

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The Anti-Abortion Right Is Not Into Compromise

Columnists Froma Harrop - April 10, 2024 0

Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was sold as a sensible and mollifying approach to the abortion controversy. It would let each state ban or codify a right to abortion in accordance with local culture. This assumed that the end of a constitutional right to abortion was the victory after which “pro-life” conservatives could go home. Not so. Anti-abortion activists clearly see Roe’s fall as but one stop in a longer journey to outlaw abortion […]

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RFK Jr. Is No Friend Of Free Speech

Columnists Joe Conason - April 6, 2024 0

With every day that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. runs his peculiar presidential campaign, he offers a display of delusional narcissism and feckless duplicity. Aside from drawing attention to himself, Kennedy seems to be trying to ensure the re-election of Donald Trump, provoking the suspicion that he shares Trump’s toxic politics despite his own liberal heritage. Whatever murky and destructive ideology Kennedy may espouse, however, everyone should understand by now that this aging nepo baby is […]

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A License To Lie

Columnists Susan Estrich - March 31, 2024 0

Where does a lawyer draw the line between zealous advocacy of a client’s cause and using his standing as a lawyer as a license to lie? A California State Bar judge ruled this week that former Chapman Law School Dean John Eastman crossed that line in his representation of Donald Trump’s efforts to invalidate the 2020 election. “It is true that an attorney has a duty to engage in zealous advocacy on behalf of a […]

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