Donald J. Trump’s best defense in his ledger-entry case could come from the unlikeliest source: prosecutors. Local and federal prosecutors and law-enforcement officials fathom the stunning shallowness of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “case” against Trump. Why? They repeatedly decided not to prosecute Trump…
A couple weeks ago, a media narrative — which I’ll admit I agreed with at the time — making the rounds claimed that because of the lawfare-generated indictments and court cases that Donald Trump is having to wade through, it’s…
Like so many Americanos, I’m spending more time than I should listening to news out of Manhattan, where the local prosecutor there has charged the leading Republican candidate for president with 34 felony counts of being Donald Trump. I challenge…
WASHINGTON — It took the threat of being jailed to move former President Donald Trump to show some respect for the criminal justice system. On Tuesday, Judge Juan Merchan fined Trump $9,000 — the $1,000 maximum for nine violations of…
New York state governmental corruption metastasized after the Civil War. Mayor William “Boss” Tweed’s famous ring in New York City elevated kickbacks to a high art. His ability to deliver votes ensured that legislators found it in their interest to…
Some of our regular readers — perhaps many of you, in fact — will likely remember a column that appeared in this space almost two years ago commenting on a segment Tucker Carlson did on his then–Fox News broadcast about…
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wasn’t formally involved in last Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing in Trump v. United States, yet his transparently politicized prosecution of the former president provided a poignant subtext for the oral arguments. The hearing concerned Special…
WASHINGTON — I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan. District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged the former president with 34 felony counts of…
In 1967, I had the privilege of studying criminal law at Yale University. The teacher was a superpower in the field named Joe Goldstein. After a short time, we got to a series of cases where a prosecutor had empaneled…
