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Implications for the Ten Commandments cases

It is time, I suggest, to give what-about-ism a well-deserved burial.

That's the powerful argument that Mayor Adams's lawyers are making, citing (among other grounds) the leaking of a resignation letter containing "the wildly inflammatory and false accusation that Mayor Adams and his counsel had, in essence, offered a quid to the Department of Justice in exchange for the quo of…

Judge Newman files a powerful reply to the unprecedented claim of the Federal Circuit's Judicial Council that she can be suspended from her duties indefinitely. And the Judicial Council's recent hiring of adversarial experts raises new questions about bias against Judge Newman.

The Justice Department's decision to seek dismissal of the pending charges seems like standard fare in plea bargaining and helps to support a top Administration policy.

Co-blogger Josh Blackman gets the Eric Adams Affair all wrong

What happens when a President doesn't care whether his actions comply with the law? We are about to find out.

How many reporters asked Martha Ann Alito about her flags?

The key issue in such cases is the motivation of the official who adopted by the policy, not who voted for him.