In recent years, the department’s enforcement agenda—including the recent incursion in Portland—has fallen into the direct service of President Trump’s reëlection efforts.
The President is very wrong about how well the United States is handling the pandemic, relative to the rest of the world. And yet even arguing the point misses how sordid his basic position is.
A month after the state’s Democratic primary, officials are still tallying mail-in ballots for the Twelfth Congressional District. How will they cope with the general election?
The commuting of the prison sentence of an ally who kept his mouth shut during the Trump-Russia investigation is a consummate act of corruption and cronyism.
In a pair of 7–2 decisions handed down on Thursday, the Court ruled that the President’s financial records can be reviewed by prosecutors, and that the Presidency does not give Trump the “absolute immunity” he claims it does.