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Trump seems not to care that his frivolous motions keep failing. Here's why he should.
On Wednesday, Judge Juan Merchan parried the latest effort by Donald Trump — one of at least eight — to derail his rapidly approaching Manhattan trial for interfering with the 2016 election via an alleged cover-up of hush money payments. Trump’s increasingly frantic attempts to avoid it are the surest testament to the importance of this prosecution, and his latest failure reveals his desperation. As one of us explains in a forthcoming book, the former president knows he faces likely conviction.
Opinion: Why Trump’s immunity claim fell flat in court
Editor’s Note: Laurence Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard University. Norman Eisen, who served as counsel to House Democrats in the first Trump impeachment, is a senior fellow at Brookings. Taylor Redd is a research analyst at Brookings. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. View more opinion at CNN.
Opinion: Why Trump’s immunity claim doesn’t add up Original
Editor’s Note: Laurence Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard University. Norman Eisen, who served as counsel to House Democrats in the first Trump impeachment, is a senior fellow at Brookings. Taylor Redd is a research analyst at Brookings. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. View more opinion at CNN.
Biden State of the Union 2023: Should Biden acknowledge the classified documents investigation?
Next week President Biden will give his annual State of the Union address. The address will take place against the backdrop of an ongoing special counsel investigation. Although Biden’s document mishandling is unlikely to lead to charges, (it is more like former Vice President Mike Pence’s situation and unlike former President Donald Trump’s) it raises the question—how will he treat it? Other presidents have delivered the State of the Union address against background controversies.
Do State Laws Block Insurrectionists from Office?
The next two years are likely to see a test of what may turn out to be the most legally consequential recommendation—other than the suggestion of criminal charges—made by the January 6 committee in its final report.
Democracy on the Ballot
Democracy on the Ballot takes an in depth look at election deniers in the 2022 midterms in an effort to assess their likelihood of success, their plans if elected, and their impact on election administration and democracy.
Democracy on the ballot-will election-denying litigation succeed?
A wave of litigation over election issues has been filed in the months leading up to the 2022 midterms. These lawsuits, some of which have been filed by individuals or groups associated in varying levels with the election-denial movement, generally seek to circumscribe the methods by which citizens can vote or to challenge how state officials administer their elections. The types of relief these lawsuits seek run the gamut from the minor to the disruptive.
Opinion: It's not OK for armed election deniers to intimidate voters Original
Editor’s Note: Norman Eisen is a political law expert who advised the White House on election law when he served as President Barack Obama’s ethics czar. Taylor Redd is a researcher focusing on national elections. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. Read more opinion at CNN. CNN — Major victories in two separate voting rights cases this week stunted efforts to harass early voters in Arizona and overwhelm election offices in Michigan with frivolous challenges.
Election denial and the Electoral Count Act
The “election denial” movement originated in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. It included false claims about the power of the Vice President and Congress to turn aside presidential electors. Although illegitimate, these claims were facilitated by ambiguities under the almost 150-year-old Electoral Count Act (ECA) that in part governs the roles of Congress and the Vice President.
2022 elections: Results and implications
Twitter Join the conversation on Twitter using #Election2022 As the 2022 midterm elections near, what will the results mean for politics and policy going forward? Experts in Brookings’s Center for Effective Public Management spent the year analyzing congressional primary data to better understand the candidates, the voters, and the party platforms.
The January 6th Hearings: Criminal Evidence Tracker Seventh Edition
Building on the prior Cassidy Hutchinson hearing, the January 6 Select Committee last Tuesday further advanced the ball on proving that former President Donald Trump intended violence to occur that day, and the committee therefore moved toward proof beyond a reasonable doubt of criminal violations. We incorporate that continued accumulation of evidence in the seventh edition of our criminal evidence tracker (available below and as a separate PDF).
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