Ari Melber
Ari Melber
Ari Melber, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, writer and attorney, is the host of “The Beat with Ari Melber” airing nightly at 6 p.m. ET on MSNBC. He also serves as MSNBC’s chief legal correspondent and an NBC News legal analyst. Before joining MSNBC, Melber practiced First Amendment law and served as a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate. He received a J.D. from Cornell Law School and is a member of the New York Bar.
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Republicans won the election, but where they may not be “winning,” like the pop culture space, we see intense outrage time and time again.
Once the president realized how hard it was to legislate, he turned away from it and has never really come back.
The music mogul’s case follows the very American tradition of some trials becoming cultural and ethical flashpoints.
Trump’s trade war could lead to barren shelves in a matter of weeks. No amount of headlines about partial deals with the U.K. can change that reality.
As Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned, if this kind of behavior is allowed for some, it can happen to others — and those others could be American citizens.
Trump wants to normalize using the pardon power to free insurrectionists. But, as GOP senators said at the time, there was nothing normal about what took place on Jan. 6.
While the GOP campaigned on issues like prices and immigration, new developments show what congressional Republicans actually plan to do with their power.
If being singled out unfairly is grounds for a pardon, then many lower-income and minority Americans could benefit from the same lenience that the president showed his son.
For the president-elect’s critics-turned-allies, embarrassment appears to be the price of entry into Trump’s inner circle.
Trump has long used celebrity to burnish his brand and it’s clearly bothered him when famous people embrace his opponents over him.
