Barbara McQuade
MS NOW Columnist
Barbara McQuade is an MS NOW columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is the author of “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America,” as well as a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
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The criminal justice system has guardrails to prevent abuses of power. But at least one grand jury has reportedly been empaneled based only on vague allegations of “lawfare.”
Trump can already repeal pretty much any executive order he wants — but that’s not why he keeps obsessing over Biden’s signatures.
To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.
The strategy matches what historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat calls “engineered incompetence.”
Trump’s nomination of Pirro to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia is in some ways preferable to Ed Martin, his first choice. But both are devastating.
Nationwide injunctions are controversial. But Trump’s DOJ didn’t have a better plan.
The selection of Paul Ingrassia to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel rivals the equally irresponsible (and doomed) nomination of Ed Martin.
Ed Martin has been resurrected in a role where he can perhaps do even more damage.
By caving in to Trump’s demands, major law firms may believe they are saving themselves. In fact, they are helping to advance Trump’s disinformation campaign.
The legal question here isn’t necessarily what the administration is doing; it’s how the administration is doing it.
