Author: Varad Mehta
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Trump’s long purge: The president is trying to undo the four years he was gone
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As the end of the first month of President Donald Trump’s second term approached, the New York Times sounded an alarm: He has, America’s paper of record breathlessly intoned, “carried out a campaign of retribution that has little analogue in history.” Trump did indeed swear to be “retribution.” But that is too small a word to capture the magnitude…
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Trump’s relationship with the legal system will play a decisive role in his second term
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President-elect Donald Trump‘s fraught, tempestuous, yet ultimately empowering relationship with the legal system has defined his political career. It dominated his first term, continued to play a critical role during his antipresidency, and is now poised to exert a decisive influence on his second administration. It will do so in the same forms it has…
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Supreme resistance: John Roberts and company immunize Trump from the Left’s lawfare
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Since he departed the White House, Donald Trump has faced a barrage of litigation and judicial proceedings across the country. Some of it was civil, such as the New York attorney general’s suit against the Trump Organization for inflating property valuations, E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit, and the gambit to use Section 3 of the 14th…