What Bill Barr doesn’t understand about the office of attorney general
The U.S. attorney general’s office started in the judicial branch, not the executive — and has never been entirely under presidential control
How the Mueller report reminds us of Watergate
Four curious echoes of the iconic White House abuse of power.
President Trump says he could pardon himself. Shades of Nixon reemerge from behind the curtain.
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Wait, is Sessions invoking preemptive “executive privilege”? Here’s the problem with that.
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Firing Comey was legal. That doesn’t mean it was a good idea.
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