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Patrick Semansky / AP What Judge Sullivan Should Do
The Justice Department has requested that he dismiss the case against Michael Flynn. Here are 13 questions the judge should ask of government counsel.
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The Atlantic The Supreme Court Case That Could Destroy the Balance of Powers
By accepting Trump’s argument for keeping his finances secret, the Court could strip Congress of its ability to hold this, or any, president to account.
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Bloomberg / Getty / The Atlantic To Trump, ‘Complete and Total Exoneration’ Is Always Right Around the Corner
The president and his supporters continue to fixate on the Russia investigation, perpetually expecting redemption.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Democrats Have No Good Options
If they are successful in their cooperation with Trump, they potentially throw him an electoral lifeline. But if they fail, the country will suffer.
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Alexander Drago What’s So Hard to Understand About What Trump Has Said?
A clarifying look at the president’s response to the coronavirus, in his own words
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Drew Angerer / Getty Being an Actual Authoritarian Is Too Much Work for Trump
The president doesn’t like constraints on his power, but he doesn’t exactly like using his power either.
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MANDEL NGAN / AFP / GETTY Trump’s Allies Know He Has Failed
Defenders of the president seem to have settled on the excuse that the White House botched its pandemic preparations because it was too distracted by the drama on Capitol Hill.
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Tasos Katopodis / Getty This Isn’t All Trump’s Fault (But He Isn’t Helping Either)
Even with perfect leadership, the pandemic was always going to be bad. But the president has caused the crisis to be far worse.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Can’t Even Imitate a Normal President
He couldn’t keep the impression going for an entire press briefing.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Seems to Be Missing His Old Scandals
Why would the president, in the midst of an enormous public-health crisis, want to reignite the story of the Russian-collusion investigation that dominated his first two years in office?
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Incompetence Exacerbated by Malevolence
The coronavirus has dangerously inverted a long-standing White House theme.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Playbook Is Terribly Ill-Suited to a Pandemic
The president cannot rely on his usual strategies of lying and bullying to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Most Dangerous Destruction Yet
What the president is doing to America’s intelligence community could have enormous repercussions for the 2020 election and the country’s preparedness for threats from around the world.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Imagine If a Democrat Behaved Like Bill Barr
What would the attorney general say were a future administration to follow his lead?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Oversight Wars Are Not Going Away
Impeachment may be over, but other skirmishes between Trump and the House will come to a head over the next few months.
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Mario Tama / Getty How to Avoid Despair
Trump has been acquitted. Now comes the hard part.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters 23 Dangerous Propositions the Senate Just Ratified
In voting to acquit President Trump, the Senate has legitimated legal and moral claims that will not serve America well.
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Erin Scott / Reuters The Utter Ridiculousness of the U.S. Senate
The world’s greatest deliberative body? Really?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Impeachment Brief Is a Howl of Rage
The document released by the president’s lawyers reads more like the scream of a wounded animal than a traditional legal filing.
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Loren Elliott / Reuters The Senate Trial Will Be Totally Predictable—With One Potential for Surprise
Prepare for peak tedium.
