Claire Finkelstein
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Trumpâs justice department has found a new way for presidents to avoid accountability | Claire Finkelstein (opens the original)
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A recent memo claiming executive privilege over communications with private advisers invites corruption A recent office of legal counsel memo on executive privilege maintains that private advisers to a president can avoid responding to a subpoena by asserting the presidentâs executive privilege. The ability of presidents to shield communications from public view through claims of executive privilege, whether their own or those of a senior adviser, was already a powerful tool for presidents to
The Todd Blanche hearings will test senatorsâ commitment to the rule of law | Claire Finkelstein (opens the original)
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Trumpâs former personal attorney has a vast slate of conflicts of interest. Will lawmakers do their job in his confirmation hearings? Todd Blanche is the most conflicted nominee for attorney general the US Congress has yet to encounter. As the former private attorney for Donald Trump, Blanche has been an unflappable ally for the president since 2023, when he left his private firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, to represent Trump in the hush-money prosecution brought against him by the Manhatt
Americans declared independence from a tyrant once. And we must do that again | Claire Finkelstein (opens the original)
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America’s founding 250 years ago was a warning cry against leaders like Trump. Our past is a guide for how to handle our present As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, marking the official birth of the new nation, it is worth remembering some of the reasons the document offers as just cause for making war on the British monarchy. “No taxation without representation” is the slogan that is best known as the core complaint of the colonists, a reference
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