Last weekend, when audio of Joe Biden’s 2023 interviews with former special counsel Robert Hur became public, the former president tried to deflate its significance, insisting, through a spokesperson, that “the audio does nothing but confirm what is already public.” […]
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May 16, 2025, 1:22 PM EDT / Updated May 16, 2025, 1:47 PM EDT By Lisa Rubin This is an adapted excerpt from MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin’s May 15 comments on the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship case. On Thursday, the Supreme Court
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Ever since Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura took the witness stand Tuesday at his sex trafficking trial in New York, her testimony has been riveting and terrifying. For example, just before the trial broke for lunch Tuesday, Ventura explained
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In the wake of retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s passing, there will inevitably be efforts to pinpoint his most consequential rulings. Some will, as The New York Times’ Linda Greenhouse wrote Friday morning, look harder than others; she noted that Souter’s
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It was late Friday night, the day after his triumph over legal juggernaut Paul Weiss, that President Donald Trump issued his latest broadside against law firms. You would be forgiven for missing it given the timing of its release. But
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Trump claims Biden’s pardons for Jan. 6 committee members are ‘void’ due to his use of an autopen, but Lisa Rubin explains that legal precedent says otherwise. Source link Lisa Rubin
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Last month, over the objections of multiple career prosecutors, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department sought to dismiss the criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice, meaning the Justice Department would retain the option to charge Adams again
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Following a slew of allegations about excessive drinking, financial mismanagement and mistreatment of women, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, returned to Capitol Hill on Thursday to try to secure the support of senators who will decide
With Christmas under a month away, many Americans are equal parts stressed about the holidays and exhausted by politics, including the legal travails of the former and future president, Donald Trump. That’s particularly true now that Trump’s legal proceedings are
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More than three decades ago, the nation watched — both riveted and horrified — as a woman who was testifying during a presidential nominee’s Senate confirmation hearing was grilled in graphic detail about the nominee’s alleged sexual misconduct. The committee,
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