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WHAT LAW?
From the courtrooms of Manhattan to the halls of Congress to (of course!) the Fox News studios, the president and his lackeys can’t stop groping the rule of law.
Lloyd Green was the opposition research counsel to the George H.W. Bush campaign in 1988, and served in the Department of Justice between 1990 and 1992.
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L’ÉTAT, C'EST PAS TOI
Prior presidents who tussled with Congress and prosecutors understood in the end that America and the Constitution were far larger than them.
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EROSION
When it came to America’s Jews, Donald Trump’s expectation of instant gratification and “Jexodus” didn’t happen.
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THE PRICE OF NEGLIGENCE
But any recovery eventually due to financier’s estate might be detoured to his multiple victims.
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THE SPIRIT OF MCVEIGH
Having staked their future on a volatile brew of race and resentment, Republicans are seeing crime again emerge as a campaign issue. But this time they are on the receiving end.
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THE COMMODUS PRESIDENCY
Trump lawyers are arguing he’s an emperor, above the law, even as he calls on the Department of Justice to prosecute his political enemies.
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KING CYRUSES
Where Trump threatens and thunders, Netanyahu—who’s not a head of state but does command popular support—swaps. Give him what he needs, and he’ll give you what you want.
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PEPE WAS PRELUDE
Like Scarlett O’Hara with Tara in ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Trump is aiming to restore the grandeur of bygone days.
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CHANGING REALITIES
Unadulterated ethno-nationalism is in full bloom in the Land of Milk and Honey.
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GOLD STANDARD
Last time around, the committee “stuck to matters that Americans would regard as impeachable offenses, not purely personal issues or disagreements about policy.”
