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Homeland Security secretary pick Kristi Noem may face questions on her experience with national security at a confirmation hearing Wednesday.

Congress under full Republican control still could further investigate the president’s family in the new year.

Special counsel Jack Smith dropped two of Trump's major federal cases, leaving questions of presidential immunity unanswered, Harvard Law professor says.

The decision agreed with Trump that Special Counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed, which could have positive downstream effects for the rest of us, as well.

Good riddance to special counsel investigations of the President.

A thoughtful, sober take on Trump v. United States.

Targeting the voting booth for Trump is a massive operation to return the authoritarian to the White House

I've benefited from much thoughtful commentary about last week's arguments in Trump v. United States, the presidential immunity case (besides posts at this blog, see e.g. these posts by Jack Goldsmith and by Marty Lederman). In addition I wanted to pass along these additional thoughts by Professor Robert Leider from…

Experts say the Insurrection Act gives a president too much sweeping power to deploy troops on American soil without guard rails or proper oversight from Congress.

In the Trump immunity case, SCOTUS effectively granted a stay without considering the likelihood of success on the merits.