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The Latest Breaking News from Robert Mueller

The Major Separation of Powers Problems with J.E.B. v. Trump

Judge Boasberg is about to unleash a truly independent counsel on the Trump Administration, and the President himself, subject to none of the strictures that Alexia Morrison faced.

Reason

The Special Counsel Is Dead. Long Live The Special Counsel.

Judge Boasberg will likely anoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Trump Administration, bring us back to Muellergate.

Reason

Justice Department suggests federal agencies are free to blacklist law firm despite judge's order

The Justice Department has suggested to federal agencies they're free to blacklist a law firm targeted by President Donald Trump despite a judge’s ruling that halted enforcement of an executive order meant to punish it

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More than 500 firms sign brief in support of Trump-targeted law office

The law firm Perkins Coie is fighting an executive order from Donald Trump limiting its access to federal buildings.

Al Jazeera

Trump announces $100M deal with Doug Emhoff’s law firm

The law firm where Emhoff, the husband of former vice president Kamala Harris, works is the latest to be targeted by the president

The Independent UK

Trump suggests Don Jr’s marriage split was partly due to ‘the witch-hunt’

The president said the separation had been ‘very sad’ for him and that his son had been put through a lot of ‘crap’

The Independent UK

How the Government Should Deal with Lawyers' Alleged Bad Behavior: Substance and Procedure

Last week, I posted an excerpt of Paul Clement's arguments as to why the Executive Order targeting the WilmerHale law… The post How the Government Should Deal with Lawyers' Alleged Bad Behavior: Substance and Procedure appeared first on Reason.com.

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Judges block Trump executive orders targeting another two law firms

Lawyers are arguing that Trump’s vengeful orders amount to an assault on the foundations of the legal system and are an unconstitutional retaliation by the president.

The Independent UK

Trump’s newest law firm target is where FBI foe Robert Mueller once worked

WilmerHale and Jenner & Bock have sued the Trump administration over the orders

The Independent UK

Paul Clement's Argument Against the Executive Order Targeting the WilmerHale Law Firm

It's a lawyer's argument, not an attempt at objective analysis. But I think that on balance it is generally quite correct, and powerfully framed.

Reason

Two law firms targeted by Trump sue over executive orders that sought to punish them

Two prominent law firms targeted by the White House are filing lawsuits over virtually identical executive orders, pushing back over edicts meant to punish them over their association with attorneys who have previously investigated President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

Trump sued by two law firms as another makes deal to avoid being targeted

Jenner & Block and WilmerHale seek to stop executive orders that would halt business with government

The Guardian - US

How Trump’s ‘America First’ MAGA movement turned the Republican Party into an ‘arm of the Kremlin’

IN FOCUS: President Trump’s recent attack on Volodymyr Zelensky sees GOP accused of parroting Vladimir Putin’s talking points, Joe Sommerlad reports

The Independent UK

‘X-rays into the president’s soul’: Jeffrey Toobin on Trump, Biden and the pardon power

A new book examines controversial recent decisions and the lasting effects of Ford’s pardoning of Nixon in 1974

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Trump Tells Putin To Make Ukraine Deal 'Now' Or Face Tougher Sanctions

US President Donald Trump stepped up the pressure on Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to make a peace deal with Ukraine Wednesday, threatening tougher economic measures if Moscow does not agree to end the war.

Evening Standard

'Alternative facts' and 9 other phrases popularised by Donald Trump

Here are 10 amusing words or phrases the President has been associated with over the years

The Conversation

FBI director guides the agency in confronting complex international threats, investigating federal crimes and running 55 field offices

Mention the FBI, and many older Americans will likely think of a time when the agency was run by J. Edgar Hoover, who spent much of his nearly half-century tenure at the agency harassing political dissidents and abusing his power. But as former FBI counterterrorism expert Javed Ali explains, the…

Salon

Yes, Joe should pardon Trump next

Let's hit the reset button on American democracy. Is it moral? I don't know, but it gives us a chance to start over

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The Guardian - US

Donald Trump taps his criminal defense lawyers for top DoJ roles

Administration picks Todd Blanche and Emil Bove defended president-elect in New York hush-money case

The Independent UK

Here’s where the most notorious curse word comes from

Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even politics. As many Americans (and global citizens) exclaimed it around the US presidential race and results, a new edition of lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower’s The F-Word has been published. He shares some ‘f****ing’ factoids…

The Guardian - US

We are witnessing the making of a fascist president in real time

Trump used his presidency to harass and prosecute ‘enemies within’. If re-elected, he will act with even less restraint

The Guardian - US

Trump says he would fire Jack Smith ‘within two seconds’ of becoming president

Ex-president makes clearest expression yet of intent to shut down two criminal cases brought against him by special counsel

The Conversation

2024 US presidential election: can we believe the polls?

Nationwide polls are often of limited relevance, considering the unique structure of the US electoral system. To gain a better understanding of the upcoming presidential election, we need to focus on surveys conducted in the pivotal battlegrounds – the so-called swing states. After the missteps in previous elections, it’s hard…

The Guardian - US

Trump took ‘British naval secrets’ to Mar-a-Lago, says Christopher Steele

Former UK spy says in new book Trump ‘apparently unauthorizedly’ took secrets with him

The Guardian - US

Interference review – team behind the Mueller Report describe the 2016 political maelstrom

Special counsel prosecutors who investigated Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election set things straight

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